common-error-handling

common-error-handling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 55 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for designing errors across an application, from business logic through infrastructure to API responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define error types and codes, wrap lower-level failures, map business errors to HTTP responses, and standardize JSON error output.
Why use it?
It prevents inconsistent error messages, leaked database details, hidden failures, and incorrect HTTP responses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define error types and codes, wrap lower-level failures, map business errors to HTTP responses, and standardize JSON error output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/common-error-handling
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 HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill common-error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 467 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 $0.00055 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0e38dbe7c85e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

common-error-handling 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 9d 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.

skills/common/common-error-handling/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Error Handling Standards

Priority: P1 (HIGH)

Error Architecture

  • API Layer: Map domain errors to HTTP responses globally.
  • Domain Layer: Throw pure business errors. NO HTTP status codes here.
  • Infra Layer: Wrap 3rd-party exceptions. NOT leak raw DB errors to API.
  • Standard Shape: APIs must return standardized JSON envelope:

See implementation examples for standard error response shape.

Error Mechanics

  • Wrap: Add context (fmt.Errorf("process: %w", err), new Error('msg', { cause })).
  • Replace: Only when original error leaks sensitive details.
  • Error Codes: Use SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE IDs (ORDER_PAYMENT_FAILED).

Anti-Patterns

  • Swallowing Errors: Never catch(e) {} without logging or re-throwing.
  • Never silently ignore an error: an empty catch must become an explicit log, handling branch, returned error, or rethrow.
  • Stack Traces: Never expose stack traces in API responses.
  • Generic 500s: Use 400 with specific details for validation instead of 500.

References

Failure-handling checklist

  • Never swallow errors: do not use an empty catch or silently ignore a failure. Log, wrap, rethrow, or map it deliberately at the correct boundary.
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 55 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 0e38dbe7c85e

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common-error-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 467 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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