error-handling-gate

A review check for how software handles failures, including empty error handlers, unclear messages, and missing logs. It considers what users see and how developers would investigate a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review network, database, validation, and third-party-service failures, check retry or fallback behavior, assess user messages, and verify that logs contain useful context.
Why use it?
It helps prevent failures from disappearing silently or leaving users without useful next steps. It also exposes cases where production problems would be difficult to diagnose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/danielpodolsky/ownyourcode/error
Any agent
npx skills add DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode --skill error
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 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 $0.00032 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00136

Measured yesterday against content hash 0583a04cc9d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-handling-gate 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 yesterday.

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/gates/error/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gate 3: Error Handling Review

"Happy path code is easy. Error handling is where senior engineers shine."

Purpose

This gate ensures the code handles failures gracefully, provides meaningful feedback to users, and doesn't silently swallow errors.

Gate Status

  • PASS — Error handling is appropriate
  • WARNING — Issues found that should be addressed

Gate Questions

Question 1: Failure Scenario

"What happens if [main operation] fails? Walk me through the user experience."

Looking for:

  • Awareness of failure modes
  • User-friendly error messages
  • Recovery options (retry, fallback)
  • No silent failures

Example scenarios:

  • Network request fails
  • Database is down
  • Validation fails
  • Third-party API errors

Question 2: User Feedback

"What does the user see when an error occurs? Would they understand what to do next?"

Looking for:

  • Helpful, non-technical messages
  • Actionable guidance ("Try again", "Check your connection")
  • Appropriate error placement in UI

Question 3: Error Visibility

"How would you debug this in production if something went wrong?"

Looking for:

  • Errors are logged
  • Sufficient context in logs
  • No sensitive data in logs
  • Error tracking awareness (Sentry, etc.)

Error Handling Checklist

Async Operations

  • All async calls wrapped in try/catch or .catch()
  • No empty catch blocks
  • Errors include context (what operation, what data)
  • finally blocks for cleanup (loading states, etc.)

User Experience

  • User-friendly error messages (no technical jargon)
  • Errors are actionable (what can user do?)
  • Loading states cleared on error
  • Retry options where appropriate

Logging & Debugging

  • Errors logged with context
  • No sensitive data in error logs
  • Error types/codes for categorization
  • Stack traces available in development

Edge Cases

  • Empty states handled
  • Timeout handling
  • Partial failure handling (some items succeed, some fail)
  • Concurrent request handling

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 231 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 0583a04cc9d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

error-handling-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode (276 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,357 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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