--- name: case-urgency-risk-triage-scorer description: "Scores an individual support or trust & safety case across urgency level, risk category, recommended owner, and suggested next action — producing a structured triage verdict with reasoning and SLA target. Use when prioritizing a case queue, deciding who should own an incoming ticket, or determining how fast a report or dispute must be actioned." argument-hint: "[case-description]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Case Urgency & Risk Triage Scorer ## Purpose Turn a raw case description into a fast, consistent triage verdict — urgency level, risk category, recommended owner, SLA target, and the single best next action — so specialists can prioritize a queue without re-litigating severity for every ticket. Solves the problem of inconsistent, gut-feel triage that lets high-risk cases sit while low-stakes tickets get worked first. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Triage or prioritize an incoming support ticket, dispute, or abuse report - Decide how urgent a case is or how fast it needs a response - Determine which team or role should own a specific case - Score a queue of cases so they can be sorted by risk - Classify a trust & safety report (fraud, harassment, policy violation, safety threat) - Figure out the right next action for a case that isn't obvious ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Case description**: The ticket, report, or complaint text — verbatim if possible - **Case source**: Buyer, seller, third party, automated flag, or internal - **Platform type**: Marketplace, social platform, gig/service platform, or other - **Money involved**: Whether funds, payouts, or transactions are at stake (and rough amount if known) - **User signals**: Any known account history — prior violations, verified status, account age - **Available owners/teams**: The roles or queues cases can be routed to (e.g., Tier 1 Support, Payments, T&S, Legal, Engineering) If available owners aren't specified, default to a standard set: Tier 1 Support, Tier 2 Support, Payments/Disputes, Trust & Safety, Legal/Escalations. If source or user signals are missing, note the assumption and score on the description alone. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Detect Risk Category Classify the case into its primary risk category. If multiple apply, pick the highest-severity one as primary and list secondaries. - **Safety/Harm** — physical threat, self-harm, minor safety, violence, real-world danger. Always highest severity. - **Fraud/Financial** — scams, chargebacks, unauthorized transactions, payout manipulation, fake listings - **Abuse/Harassment** — targeted harassment, hate speech, threats, doxxing between users - **Policy Violation** — prohibited items, TOS breaches, spam, fake reviews, off-platform circumvention - **Account Integrity** — account takeover (ATO), impersonation, credential compromise, bot activity - **Transaction Dispute** — item-not-received, item-not-as-described, refund conflicts, delivery issues - **Service/Product Issue** — bugs, feature confusion, billing questions, how-to requests (lowest risk) ### Step 2: Score Urgency Assign one urgency level using these criteria. Time-sensitivity and irreversibility push urgency up. - **P0 — Critical (respond immediately, < 1 hour)**: Active safety threat, self-harm indicators, live fraud draining funds, ongoing ATO, legal/regulatory exposure, PR-level risk - **P1 — High (respond < 4 hours)**: Financial loss preventable if acted on now, harassment in progress, pending payout to a flagged account, repeat offender with escalating behavior - **P2 — Medium (respond < 24 hours)**: Standard disputes with money at stake, single policy violations, first-time abuse reports, account issues not actively exploited - **P3 — Low (respond < 72 hours)**: How-to questions, cosmetic issues, low-value disputes, informational requests, resolved-but-logged incidents **Escalation multipliers** — bump urgency up one level if any apply: - Repeat offender or prior violation on file - Money at stake above your high-value threshold (default: unusual for the platform) - Public-facing or media-visible - Time-boxed (funds release, deadline, or shipment window closing) - Vulnerable party involved ### Step 3: Recommend Owner Route to the correct owner based on risk category and complexity: - **Safety/Harm, Legal exposure** → Trust & Safety, escalate to Legal/Escalations - **Fraud/Financial, chargebacks, payouts** → Payments/Disputes (T&S if coordinated abuse) - **Abuse/Harassment, Account Integrity** → Trust & Safety - **Transaction Dispute** → Tier 1 if straightforward; Tier 2/Payments if funds held or contested - **Service/Product Issue** → Tier 1 Support; Engineering only if reproducible bug Name a primary owner and, for P0/P1 cases, a secondary/notify party. ### Step 4: Suggest Next Action Give one concrete, specific first action — not a category. Examples of the right specificity: - "Freeze the pending $840 payout on seller account, then request ID re-verification before release" - "Restrict messaging between the two accounts and preserve the message thread for review" - "Request order photos and tracking from the seller; hold refund decision until received" - "Reply with the password-reset flow; no escalation needed" Include, where relevant: what to preserve/evidence, what to freeze/hold, what to ask the user, and whether to auto-respond or escalate first. ### Step 5: Assemble the Verdict Card Compile the triage into a single scannable verdict with a one-line rationale explaining *why* this urgency and category — tying it to the specific signals in the case. ## Output Format - **Structure**: A single "Triage Verdict Card" for the case, followed by a short rationale block - **Length**: 150–300 words per case (concise — this is a queue tool, not an essay) - **Format**: Labeled field block (Urgency / Risk Category / Owner / SLA / Next Action) plus a one-paragraph rationale - **Sections**: Verdict Card → Rationale → (if applicable) Secondary risks & escalation triggers noted - **Tone**: Decisive triage-desk voice — a verdict, not a discussion. Commit to a level; don't hedge with "could be P1 or P2." ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Exactly one primary urgency level assigned (P0–P3) — no ranges - [ ] Exactly one primary risk category assigned; secondaries listed separately if present - [ ] An SLA target time is stated and matches the assigned urgency level - [ ] The recommended owner exists in the provided/default owner list - [ ] The next action is a specific, executable step — not a category label like "investigate" - [ ] The rationale references at least one concrete signal from the case description ## Notes - When in doubt between two urgency levels, score up — the cost of over-triaging a case is small; the cost of under-triaging a P0 is not. - Safety/Harm always overrides money. A $2 case with a credible threat outranks a $5,000 routine dispute. - For batch triage, run the same five steps per case and output the verdict cards in a table sorted by urgency (P0 first) so the queue is workable at a glance. - Escalation multipliers are the most common source of triage errors — always check them before finalizing, especially repeat-offender status and time-boxed windows. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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