error-handling-priorities

error-handling-priorities is a cursor rule for Cursor from claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules. It costs 133 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of error-handling-priorities, CC0-1.0.

A set of Python rules for handling errors, invalid inputs, and unusual cases early in a function.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides guard clauses, early returns, error logging, custom error types, and user-friendly messages.
Why use it?
It makes failures easier to understand and prevents deeply nested code paths.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit It guides guard clauses, early returns, error logging, custom error types, and user-friendly messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules/error-handling-priorities
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 133 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 133 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00133 $0.00133
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 6d ago against content hash 49cd6df21439, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-handling-priorities 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to error-handling-priorities — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

rules/cursorrules-file-cursor-ai-python-fastapi-api/error-handling-priorities.mdc · 12 lines

What it actually says

  • Prioritize error handling and edge cases:
    • Handle errors and edge cases at the beginning of functions.
    • Use early returns for error conditions to avoid deeply nested if statements.
    • Place the happy path last in the function for improved readability.
    • Avoid unnecessary else statements; use the if-return pattern instead.
    • Use guard clauses to handle preconditions and invalid states early.
    • Implement proper error logging and user-friendly error messages.
    • Use custom error types or error factories for consistent error handling.
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. 6d ago First seen · 12 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 49cd6df21439

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error-handling-priorities is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository claire-gong-18/awesome-cursorrules (0 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to error-handling-priorities, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.