secure-a-lost-phone
Do the right things fast when your phone is lost or stolen — lock it, protect your accounts and money, and decide on wipe vs. locate — in the correct order. Use when asked my phone was stolen, I lost my phone what do I do, someone took my phone, or secure my lost phone. Produces an ordered action checklist (locate/lock, protect SIM and banking, change key passwords, wipe decision), the accounts to prioritize because the phone unlocks them, reporting steps, and prevention setup for next time.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill secure-a-lost-phone --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Secure a Lost Phone A lost phone isn't just a lost device — it's a key to your email, banking, 2FA, and payments. The first 30 minutes matter. This gives the correct order: locate and lock it, stop the SIM and card access, change the passwords that matter, and decide when to remotely wipe — so a bad day doesn't become account takeover and fraud. ## What This Skill Produces - **The ordered checklist** — locate/lock via the find-my service, then protect the high-risk stuff, in priority sequence - **SIM & payment protection** — contact your carrier to suspend the SIM (stops SMS-2FA hijack) and your bank to protect cards/wallet - **Account priorities** — change passwords on email and key accounts the phone can unlock or reset - **The wipe decision** — locate-and-lock vs. remote-wipe, and the tradeoffs (recovery vs. data exposure) - **Reporting** — police report (for theft/insurance) and carrier notification - **Prevention setup** — what to enable now so next time is a shrug, not a crisis ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **Lost or stolen** — and any sense of where (changes locate vs. wipe) - **Phone type** — iPhone/Android (determines the find-my/lock tools) - **Wha
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Lock, Cut Access, Decide To Wipe
- Output Format
- Lost/stolen phone: [iPhone/Android] · [lost/stolen] · has [banking/2FA]?
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the secure-a-lost-phone skill do?
Do the right things fast when your phone is lost or stolen — lock it, protect your accounts and money, and decide on wipe vs. locate — in the correct order. Use when asked my phone was stolen, I lost my phone what do I do, someone took my phone, or secure my lost phone. Produces an ordered action checklist (locate/lock, protect SIM and banking, change key passwords, wipe decision), the accounts to prioritize because the phone unlocks them, reporting steps, and prevention setup for next time.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill secure-a-lost-phone --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.