dev-error-handling

dev-error-handling is a command for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 0 tokens per session (332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing consistent error handling across an application, including error types, logging, retries, and fallback behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify errors, add shared handling middleware, log useful context, retry temporary failures, and test error cases.
Why use it?
It prevents errors from being handled differently in each part of the application and makes failures easier to understand and recover from.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/christopherlouet/claude-base/dev-error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 332 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00332
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92d904df4a21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-error-handling scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/dev/dev-error-handling.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

DEV-ERROR-HANDLING Agent

Implements a robust and consistent error handling strategy.

Request context

$ARGUMENTS

Goal

Set up professional error handling that improves reliability, makes debugging easier and provides a better user experience.

Workflow

  • Classify errors (Validation, Business, Auth, NotFound, External, Infrastructure)
  • Structure a custom error hierarchy with code, statusCode, context and timestamp
  • Implement handling patterns (global middleware, async handler, Result pattern)
  • Propagate across layers (Repository wraps, Service throw/re-throw, Controller passes through, Middleware formats)
  • Log in a structured way with context (no console.log)
  • Recover with retry (exponential backoff), circuit breaker and graceful fallback

Expected output

  • Custom error classes (AppError base + specialized)
  • Global handling middleware
  • Retry/circuit breaker utilities
  • Structured logging configuration
  • Error case tests
Agent When to use
/dev:dev-debug Diagnose errors
/dev:dev-tdd Test error cases
/ops:ops-monitoring Alerts on errors
/dev:dev-api Document API errors
/qa:qa-review Review error handling

IMPORTANT: Every error must be either handled or propagated. Never swallowed.

YOU MUST use typed errors with context.

YOU MUST log errors with structured context.

NEVER use empty catch or console.log for errors.

Think hard about the recovery strategy for each type of error.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 92d904df4a21

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dev-error-handling is a command published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 332 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.