Error Handling
CheckedThis "Error Handling" skill by mwguerra gracefully manages and logs errors in your backend code, improving stability & debugging efficiency.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add mwguerra/claude-code-plugins --skill error-handling -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
mwguerra
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Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
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 mwguerra/claude-code-plugins at 965b237b34.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 965b237b34
- Scanned
- 2 files, 347 lines
About this skill
What it does
This skill provides robust error handling capabilities for backend processes. It allows AI agents to gracefully manage unexpected situations, such as invalid user input or failures in external API calls. The skill ensures that errors are logged appropriately and handled without crashing the application or exposing sensitive information.
When to use it
- Handling User Input Validation: When an agent is processing data entered by a user and needs to validate its format or content.
- Integrating with External APIs: When interacting with external services that may be unreliable or return unexpected responses.
- Automated Task Execution: During automated processes where failures can occur, ensuring the process doesn't halt unexpectedly.
- Data Processing Pipelines: When building data pipelines and need to ensure data integrity even when encountering corrupt files or connection issues.
Key capabilities
- Error Logging
- Graceful Failure Handling
- Input Validation
- API Error Management
Example prompts
- "Handle the potential error when fetching user data from the external API."
- "Validate the input and return an appropriate error message if it's invalid."
- “Implement a retry mechanism for failed database connections.”
Tips & gotchas
This skill requires a basic understanding of backend programming concepts. Ensure that your agent has access to relevant logging mechanisms and can interpret error codes effectively.