support-a-friend-in-crisis

support-a-friend-in-crisis is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to supporting a friend through a crisis such as bereavement, illness, a breakup, or another deeply difficult event.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose caring words, listen without trying to solve everything, offer specific practical help, continue checking in, and recognize when the situation needs more support than a friend can provide.
Why use it?
It helps when you want to be supportive but fear saying the wrong thing, fixing too quickly, or disappearing after the first few days.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to choose caring words, listen without trying to solve everything, offer specific practical help, continue checking in, and recognize when the situation needs more support than a friend can provide.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,357 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 137 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,241 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00137 $0.01241
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00124

Measured 13d ago against content hash 30613432dbfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

support-a-friend-in-crisis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

exports/cursor/other/support-a-friend-in-crisis/support-a-friend-in-crisis.mdc · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Support a Friend in Crisis

When someone you care about is going through something awful, the fear of saying the wrong thing makes many people freeze and pull away — exactly when their friend needs them most. Showing up well is a skill: it's less about perfect words and more about presence, not-fixing, and concrete help. This tells you what to say (and the clichés to avoid), how to be there over time, and when it's beyond what a friend can hold.

What This Skill Produces

  • What to actually say — simple, genuine words that acknowledge their pain, and the well-meant clichés to avoid ("everything happens for a reason," "at least...," "let me know if you need anything")
  • Presence over fixing — how to just be there and listen, rather than rushing to solve or advise (most people want to feel accompanied, not fixed)
  • Concrete help — specific, low-burden offers ("I'll drop off dinner Tuesday") instead of the vague "let me know," which they'll never take up
  • Showing up over time — how to keep supporting past the first week, when everyone else has moved on and it's often hardest
  • Looking after yourself — supporting someone in crisis is draining; how to sustain it without burning out
  • The professional line — a clear flag for when it's beyond a friend (self-harm risk, deep depression, danger) and how to steer them to real/crisis help

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • What they're facing — the crisis (loss, illness, breakup, job loss, mental health)
  • Your relationship — how close, and how they tend to cope
  • What's worrying you — saying the wrong thing, not knowing how to help, or concern for their safety
  • What you've done so far — and how they've responded
  • Any risk signs — anything suggesting they need professional/crisis support

Framework: Be There, Help Concretely, Know The Line

  1. Acknowledge simply. Genuine, plain words ("I'm so sorry, this is awful, I'm here") beat any clever comfort. Don't reach for silver linings or fixes.
  2. Be present, don't fix. Listen, sit with them, let them feel it — most people in pain want company and validation, not solutions or advice they didn't ask for.
  3. Avoid the clichés. "Everything happens for a reason," "at least...", "stay strong," and the vague "let me know if you need anything" all land badly — steer clear.
  4. Offer concrete help. Replace "let me know" with specific, easy-to-accept offers (a meal, a ride, handling one task) — people in crisis can't organize help, so make it effortless.
  5. Keep showing up. Support fades after the first wave; being there weeks later — a check-in text, remembering — matters enormously when others have moved on.
  6. Protect yourself. You can't pour from empty; pace your support and get your own.
  7. Know the line. If there's risk of self-harm, severe depression, or danger, gently but clearly help them get professional or crisis support — a friend isn't a substitute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 72 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 30613432dbfa

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support-a-friend-in-crisis is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,357 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,241 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.