Error Handling
This Error Handling skill gracefully manages unexpected errors in your code, preventing crashes and ensuring a smoother user experience.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add error-handling npx -- -y @trustedskills/error-handling
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"error-handling": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/error-handling"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to gracefully handle errors that occur during task execution. It provides mechanisms for catching exceptions, logging error details, and attempting recovery actions when possible. The goal is to prevent abrupt failures and provide informative feedback to the user about what went wrong.
When to use it
- Complex workflows: Use this skill when your agent performs multiple steps or interacts with external services where errors are likely.
- Data processing pipelines: When an agent processes data, error handling ensures that corrupted or invalid entries don't halt the entire process.
- API integrations: When integrating with third-party APIs, this skill helps manage potential network issues or unexpected API responses.
- User interactions: To provide a better user experience by preventing crashes and offering helpful error messages when something goes wrong.
Key capabilities
- Exception catching
- Error logging
- Recovery attempts
- Informative error feedback
Example prompts
- "Handle any errors that occur while retrieving data from the database."
- "If the API call fails, log the error and try again once."
- “Catch exceptions during file processing and report them to the user.”
Tips & gotchas
- This skill requires a basic understanding of programming concepts like exception handling.
- Ensure that your agent's code is structured in a way that allows for effective error catching and logging.
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