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.
npx agentmods add skills/jabrena/cursor-rules-examples/123-java-exception-handlingnpx skills add jabrena/cursor-rules-examples --skill 123-java-exception-handlinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/cursor-rules-examplesWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00105 | $0.00592 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.00296 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00118 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00059 |
Grade A, and why
123-java-exception-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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Java Exception Handling Guidelines
Identify and apply robust Java exception handling practices to improve error clarity, security, debuggability, and system reliability.
What is covered in this Skill?
- Specific exception types instead of generic
Exception/RuntimeException - try-with-resources for automatic resource cleanup
- Secure exception messages that avoid information leakage
- Exception chaining to preserve full error context
- Early input validation with
IllegalArgumentException/NullPointerException InterruptedExceptionhandling with interrupted-status restoration@throwsJavaDoc documentation, fail-fast principle- Structured logging with correlation IDs, avoiding log-and-throw duplication
- API boundary translation via centralized exception mappers
- Bounded retry with backoff for idempotent operations only
- Timeout enforcement with deadline propagation
Throwable#addSuppressedfor secondary cleanup failures- Never catching
Throwable/Error - Observability via error metrics
- Failure propagation in async
CompletionStagecode
Scope: The reference is organized by examples (good/bad code patterns) for each core area. Apply recommendations based on applicable examples.
Constraints
Before applying any exception handling changes, ensure the project compiles. If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until resolved. After applying improvements, run full verification.
- MANDATORY: Run
./mvnw compileormvn compilebefore applying any changes - SAFETY: If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until the project is in a valid state
- VERIFY: Run
./mvnw clean verifyormvn clean verifyafter applying improvements - BEFORE APPLYING: Read the reference for detailed good/bad examples, constraints, and safeguards for each exception handling pattern
When to use this skill
- Exception handling
- Use try-with-resources in Java code
- Create exception chaining in Java code
- Apply fail-fast validation in Java code
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 52 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A f892a8b67316
123-java-exception-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/cursor-rules-examples (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 592 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.
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