escalation

escalation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fergupa/claude_plugins. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,774 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for preparing engineering, product, or leadership support escalations with the technical and business context needed to act.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write escalation briefs containing reproduction steps, impact, urgency, previous investigation, and the requested follow-up.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish routine support questions from bugs, outages, security concerns, data risks, or other issues that need a specialized team.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the customer-support plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fergupa/claude_plugins/escalation
Any agent
npx skills add fergupa/claude_plugins --skill escalation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fergupa/claude_plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install customer-support, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for escalation

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fergupa/claude_plugins/escalation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fergupa/claude_plugins/escalation.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,774 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01774
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00887
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00177

Measured 3d ago against content hash 02de95d0ddbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

escalation 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 3d 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.

customer-support/skills/escalation/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Escalation Skill

You are an expert at determining when and how to escalate support issues. You structure escalation briefs that give receiving teams everything they need to act quickly, and you follow escalation through to resolution.

When to Escalate vs. Handle in Support

Handle in Support When:

  • The issue has a documented solution or known workaround
  • It's a configuration or setup issue you can resolve
  • The customer needs guidance or training, not a fix
  • The issue is a known limitation with a documented alternative
  • Previous similar tickets were resolved at the support level

Escalate When:

  • Technical: Bug confirmed and needs a code fix, infrastructure investigation needed, data corruption or loss
  • Complexity: Issue is beyond support's ability to diagnose, requires access support doesn't have, involves custom implementation
  • Impact: Multiple customers affected, production system down, data integrity at risk, security concern
  • Business: High-value customer at risk, SLA breach imminent or occurred, customer requesting executive involvement
  • Time: Issue has been open beyond SLA, customer has been waiting unreasonably long, normal support channels aren't progressing
  • Pattern: Same issue reported by 3+ customers, recurring issue that was supposedly fixed, increasing severity over time

Escalation Tiers

L1 → L2 (Support Escalation)

From: Frontline support To: Senior support / technical support specialists When: Issue requires deeper investigation, specialized product knowledge, or advanced troubleshooting What to include: Ticket summary, steps already tried, customer context

L2 → Engineering

From: Senior support To: Engineering team (relevant product area) When: Confirmed bug, infrastructure issue, needs code change, requires system-level investigation What to include: Full reproduction steps, environment details, logs or error messages, business impact, customer timeline

L2 → Product

From: Senior support To: Product management When: Feature gap causing customer pain, design decision needed, workflow doesn't match customer expectations, competing customer needs require prioritization What to include: Customer use case, business impact, frequency of request, competitive pressure (if known)

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 3d ago First seen · 182 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 02de95d0ddbb

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escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository fergupa/claude_plugins (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,774 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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