robust-error-handling-in-scripts

robust-error-handling-in-scripts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aiming-lab/MetaClaw. It costs 40 tokens per session (220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of practices for making shell scripts, Python automation, and unattended batch jobs detect, report, and handle failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing scripts that need strict failure checks, error logging, exception handling, exit codes, or retry-with-backoff behavior.
Why use it?
It prevents jobs from silently continuing after an error or hiding the reason they stopped. It also covers retries for temporary network or API failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when writing scripts that need strict failure checks, error logging, exception handling, exit codes, or retry-with-backoff behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiming-lab/metaclaw/robust-error-handling-in-scripts
About the project

MetaClaw is an AI-agent system that learns from conversations and evolves its behavior over time. It provides memory and learning modes for users who want an agent that adapts across interactions, with support for multiple claw-based agent projects.

aiming-lab/MetaClaw · 3,496 stars · on GitHub · arxiv.org

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.

Any agent
npx skills add aiming-lab/MetaClaw --skill robust-error-handling-in-scripts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiming-lab/MetaClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 220 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00220
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 8d ago against content hash baeb8f1179c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

robust-error-handling-in-scripts 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 8d 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.

memory_data/skills/robust-error-handling-in-scripts/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Robust Error Handling in Scripts

Shell scripts:

set -euo pipefail  # Exit on error, undefined var, pipe failure
trap 'echo "Failed at line $LINENO"' ERR

Python scripts:

import logging, sys
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s')
try:
    main()
except Exception as e:
    logging.exception("Unhandled error: %s", e)
    sys.exit(1)

Retry with backoff for transient network/API failures:

from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential
@retry(stop=stop_after_attempt(3), wait=wait_exponential(min=2, max=10))
def call_api(): ...
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. 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A baeb8f1179c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

robust-error-handling-in-scripts is a skill published in the GitHub repository aiming-lab/MetaClaw (3,496 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 220 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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