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Error Handling Skills

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kimasplund·vlatest·backend·MIT

This skill gracefully manages errors in your backend code, improving reliability and providing informative feedback for debugging and troubleshooting.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add kimasplund/claude_cognitive_reasoning --skill error-handling-skills -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

kimasplund

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned kimasplund/claude_cognitive_reasoning at 2929d8bcdd.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
2929d8bcdd
Manifest
skill-frameworks/error-handling-skills/SKILL.md
Scanned
8 files, 5,856 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to gracefully handle errors and unexpected situations during task execution. It allows the agent to identify error types, provide informative feedback about failures, and attempt recovery strategies when possible. The skill aims to improve robustness and user experience by preventing abrupt terminations and offering helpful guidance.

When to use it

  • Complex workflows: When an AI agent is performing multi-step tasks with dependencies where failure in one step can impact others.
  • External API integrations: When interacting with external services that may be unreliable or return unexpected responses.
  • User input validation: To handle invalid or malformed user inputs and provide clear instructions for correction.
  • Data processing pipelines: When dealing with potentially corrupted or incomplete data, preventing crashes and ensuring data integrity.

Key capabilities

  • Error type identification
  • Informative error feedback
  • Recovery strategy implementation
  • Graceful termination on unrecoverable errors

Example prompts

  • "Handle the potential API_CONNECTION_ERROR when fetching data from external source."
  • “If you encounter an invalid date format, provide a helpful message to the user.”
  • "Implement a retry mechanism for failed database queries."

Tips & gotchas

This skill requires careful configuration of error types and recovery strategies. Ensure that the agent has sufficient context and permissions to attempt recovery actions without unintended consequences.