error-handling-priorities

error-handling-priorities is a cursor rule for Cursor from holtwood/awesome-cursorrules-zh. It costs 0 tokens per session (147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

General rules for handling errors in code, including early checks, guard clauses, logging, user-friendly messages, and custom error types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when validating inputs, handling invalid states, recording errors, and creating consistent error responses.
Why use it?
They make failures easier to understand and reduce deeply nested code that is difficult to read or maintain.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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

Good fit Use them when validating inputs, handling invalid states, recording errors, and creating consistent error responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/holtwood/awesome-cursorrules-zh/error-handling-priorities
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/holtwood/awesome-cursorrules-zh

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 147 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00147
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0919a99c96af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 5d 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.

docs/rules/backend/python/fastapi-api-example/error-handling-priorities.mdc · 13 lines

What it actually says

  • 在函数开头处理错误和边缘情况。
  • 对错误条件使用提早返回,以避免深度嵌套的 if 语句。
  • 将"快乐路径"(正常执行路径)放在函数末尾,以提高可读性。
  • 避免不必要的 else 语句;改用 if-return 模式。
  • 使用卫语句(guard clauses)尽早处理前置条件和无效状态。
  • 实现适当的错误日志记录和用户友好的错误消息。
  • 使用自定义错误类型或错误工厂以实现一致的错误处理。
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. 5d ago First seen · 13 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0919a99c96af

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error-handling-priorities is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository holtwood/awesome-cursorrules-zh (233 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 147 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.