error-handling

error-handling is a skill for Claude Code from kavo-labs/kavo. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for how Kavo represents failures in code and in HTTP responses. It covers its exception types, error codes, and RFC 9457 problem-details format, a standard JSON shape for API errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when mapping Kavo errors, choosing exceptions in custom handlers, or checking the failure response returned by a route.
Why use it?
It prevents handlers from throwing inconsistent exceptions or returning error responses that do not match the documented format.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kavo-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when mapping Kavo errors, choosing exceptions in custom handlers, or checking the failure response returned by a route.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kavo-labs/kavo/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 kavo-labs/kavo --skill error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kavo-labs/kavo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kavo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,573 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 42
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 60
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
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 $0.00072 $0.01573
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00157

Measured yesterday against content hash ea243b396b60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

extensions/skills/error-handling/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Error handling reference

One exception hierarchy (core/src/errors/), one stable code catalog, one wire shape (RFC 9457 problem details, ADR-0009). Full detail: docs/internals/architecture/06-error-handling.md.

Hierarchy

KavoException (abstract; implements the KavoExceptionShape contract)
├─ QueryValidationException     carries issues[] → errors[] extension
├─ NotFoundException
├─ ConflictException
├─ AlreadyDeletedException      soft-deleting an already-deleted row → 409
├─ NotDeletedException          restoring/purging a live row → 409
├─ OperationDisabledException
├─ OperationNotRegisteredException   registry miss, never "disabled"
├─ BulkOperationException       carries items[] (reserved — bulk not built)
├─ PersistenceException
├─ TransactionException         carries retryable: boolean
├─ ConfigurationException       bootstrap-only, never a wire response
└─ PaginationNotAdvancingException   cursor page produced its own token → 500
                                     (ADR-0021 §5); data-/adapter-dependent

Every leaf binds exactly one catalog code; status, title, and message template all come from the catalog, so a thrown exception can never disagree with its own documented response. @kavo/nest's KavoExceptionFilter (@Catch(KavoException)) is the only place Kavo touches HTTP — Kavo exceptions never extend Nest's, and core never depends on framework exception types.

Error-code catalog (ERROR_CATALOG, core/src/errors/error-catalog.ts)

Codes are API surface — renaming one is a breaking (semver) change.

Code HTTP Fires when Payload extensions
KAVO_QUERY_INVALID 400 Any query grammar/allowlist/limit violation (aggregate) errors[] of the sub-codes below
KAVO_QUERY_INVALID_FIELD 400 Field not on the filter/sort/select allowlist issue-level
KAVO_QUERY_INVALID_OPERATOR 400 Unknown or misspelled wire operator issue-level
KAVO_QUERY_INVALID_VALUE 400 Coercion failure, malformed bounds, bad pagination value issue-level
KAVO_QUERY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED 400 limits.filterDepth / limits.inValues exceeded issue-level
KAVO_QUERY_UNSUPPORTED_PARAM 400 withDeleted on a hard-delete entity; include with no include resolver wired issue-level
KAVO_NOT_FOUND 404 Target row missing on findOne/updateOne/patchOne/deleteOne
KAVO_CONFLICT 409 Unique/FK violation mapped by the adapter
KAVO_ALREADY_DELETED 409 Soft-deleting an already-deleted row
KAVO_NOT_DELETED 409 Restoring or purging a row that is not deleted
KAVO_OPERATION_DISABLED 405 Programmatic/HTTP call to a disabled registry entry
KAVO_OPERATION_NOT_REGISTERED 405 Programmatic call naming an operation the registry has no entry for at all
KAVO_BULK_FAILED 422 Atomic bulk failure (reserved — bulk is not built) items[] per-index issues
KAVO_PERSISTENCE_FAILED 500 Unrecognized adapter/driver error cause kept internally
KAVO_TRANSACTION_FAILED 500 Deadlock/serialization failure retryable flag
KAVO_CONFIG_INVALID 500 Bootstrap config error — fails startup, never a response
KAVO_PAGINATION_NOT_ADVANCING 500 Cursor page produced the token it was given; following meta.nextCursor would loop forever (ADR-0021 §5)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 Changed · +3 lines ea243b396b60
  2. 3d ago Changed 9854887bfe6d
  3. 6d ago First seen · 108 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 71e743f706a7

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error-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository kavo-labs/kavo (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,573 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-02.

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