error-handling-patterns

error-handling-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 18 tokens per session (307 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to handling failures in software so applications can recover gracefully and give useful information to users and developers. It covers error messages, retries, circuit breakers, asynchronous errors, and fault-tolerant systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing resilient features or APIs, improving error messages, handling concurrent operations, or adding retry and circuit-breaker behavior.
Why use it?
It helps prevent failures from becoming crashes, unclear messages, or hard-to-diagnose production incidents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing resilient features or APIs, improving error messages, handling concurrent operations, or adding retry and circuit-breaker behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/error-handling-patterns
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 beel-collab/presets.dev --skill error-handling-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 307 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 $0.00018 $0.00307
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8d7288f07b39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-handling-patterns 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 4d 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/skills/development/error-handling-patterns/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Error Handling Patterns

Build resilient applications with robust error handling strategies that gracefully handle failures and provide excellent debugging experiences.

Use this skill when

  • Implementing error handling in new features
  • Designing error-resilient APIs
  • Debugging production issues
  • Improving application reliability
  • Creating better error messages for users and developers
  • Implementing retry and circuit breaker patterns
  • Handling async/concurrent errors
  • Building fault-tolerant distributed systems

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to error handling patterns
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

Resources

  • resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed patterns and examples.

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.
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. 4d ago First seen · 45 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 8d7288f07b39

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error-handling-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 307 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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