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operating-safely
Use when an action touches live systems, shared state, or things that do not come back - deleting, overwriting, restarting, killing processes, editing shared config, handling secrets, or working beside concurrent sessions. Encodes the destructive-op guards, secrets hygiene, and concurrent-session safety. Use before the destructive command, not after, even when the command looks routine.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/operating-safely/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/operating-safely/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.
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