br-error-contract

br-error-contract is a skill for Codex from Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standard format for errors returned by Better Route and WordPress API endpoints. Errors include a status, stable code, readable message, request ID, optional details, and headers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to return deliberate API failures such as validation errors, locked resources, rate limits, idempotency conflicts, optimistic-lock failures, and WooCommerce errors.
Why use it?
Clients can react to an error code instead of trying to interpret changing message text, while unexpected failures are hidden from callers.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to return deliberate API failures such as validation errors, locked resources, rate limits, idempotency conflicts, optimistic-lock failures, and WooCommerce errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills/br-error-contract
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 Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills --skill br-error-contract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,271 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 $0.00098 $0.01271
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00635
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00127

Measured 10d ago against content hash 48662c2a8f31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

br-error-contract 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 10d 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.

better-route/br-error-contract/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

better-route: error contract

Throw ApiException for deliberate caller-visible failures. Let unexpected throwables be scrubbed.

use BetterRoute\Http\ApiException;

throw new ApiException(
    message: 'Order is temporarily locked.',
    status: 409,
    errorCode: 'order_locked',
    details: ['orderId' => $id],
    headers: ['Retry-After' => '5'],
);

The default envelope is:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "order_locked",
    "message": "Order is temporarily locked.",
    "requestId": "req_...",
    "details": {"orderId": 42}
  }
}

Clients should branch on error.code, not message text.

Normalization

Source Status/code/message/details
ApiException Uses intentional values and headers.
InvalidArgumentException 400 invalid_request, Invalid request., empty details.
Other throwable 500 internal_error, Unexpected error., empty details.
WP_Error Uses its code/message and valid data.status; details expose only allowlisted data.params.

Unexpected exception class names and raw messages never reach the caller. Log internally; do not convert an unexpected exception to ApiException with its raw message.

WP_Error messages remain caller-visible for compatibility. Do not put SQL, paths, secrets, or debug data in a returned WP_Error message. Arbitrary error data is intentionally not copied into details; only the core REST validation params map is allowed.

1.1 validation

ApiException requires:

  • status 400–599;
  • non-empty error code matching [A-Za-z0-9._:-]+;
  • valid HTTP header token names;
  • header values without CR/LF.

Response accepts status 100–599 and applies the same header-name/value validation. Invalid configuration throws InvalidArgumentException before any header is emitted.

Use the fifth headers constructor argument for error metadata such as rate-limit headers. Do not call header() directly in a handler.

OAuth error format

Opt in per route only when the client requires RFC 6749 shape:

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 144 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 48662c2a8f31

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br-error-contract is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lonsdale201/wp-agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,271 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 2026-08-30.

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