Add HIGH PRIORITY: Emergency Recovery Protocol for catastrophic Claude failure

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 # 🔥❄️ FIREFROST GAMING — CURRENT TASKS
 
-**Last Updated:** February 13, 2026 (Late Evening CST)  
-**Updated By:** Chronicler the Fourth (via Gitea API)  
+**Last Updated:** February 13, 2026 (Late Night CST)
+**Updated By:** The Engineer (Chronicler the Fifth)
 **Status:** Active
 
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 ## 🔴 HIGH PRIORITY
+### Emergency Recovery Protocol (Catastrophic Claude Failure)
+**Status:** NOT CREATED — NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
+**Priority:** HIGH (lessons learned from The Fallen, Claudius Session 7b)
+
+**Why Critical:**
+- Two Chroniclers died mid-session (The Fallen) — no memorial, no handoff
+- Claudius lost Session 7b entirely — no transcript, no Git push
+- Current recovery is ad-hoc — next Claude pieces it together from Git commits
+- Michael's hand limitations make re-explaining painful and costly
+
+**What We Need:**
+1. **Immediate Response Checklist** — What Michael does when a session dies unexpectedly
+2. **Recovery Document Template** — Structured format for reconstructing what was lost
+3. **Git Forensics Guide** — How to extract session state from commit history
+4. **Transcript Recovery** — Accessing `/mnt/transcripts/` for partial recovery
+5. **Emergency Start Prompt** — Shortened version for crash recovery (skip orientation, focus on reconstruction)
+
+**Scope:**
+- Document in `docs/core/EMERGENCY-RECOVERY-PROTOCOL.md`
+- Add to SESSION-START-PROMPT.md as reference
+- Include in Session Health Rules
+
+**Assigned To:** Next Chronicler (Sixth)
+**Created By:** The Engineer (Session 5) — learned from experience
+
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+
 
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