m06-error-handling

m06-error-handling is a skill for Claude Code from moeru-ai/auv. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to handling failures and missing values in Rust with types such as Result and Option. It explains when to return an error, propagate it, handle it locally, or stop because the situation is a programming bug.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding between ?, match, unwrap, expect, panic, custom errors, anyhow, thiserror, or added error context.
Why use it?
It helps you choose an error strategy that tells the caller what went wrong without hiding failures or causing unexpected crashes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when deciding between ?, match, unwrap, expect, panic, custom errors, anyhow, thiserror, or added error context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moeru-ai/auv/m06-error-handling
View source ↗ moeru-ai/auv
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add moeru-ai/auv --skill m06-error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moeru-ai/auv

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,150 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 $0.00061 $0.01150
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00115

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9760e9433bfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

m06-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 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.

.agents/skills/m06-error-handling/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Error Handling

Layer 1: Language Mechanics

Core Question

Is this failure expected or a bug?

Before choosing error handling strategy:

  • Can this fail in normal operation?
  • Who should handle this failure?
  • What context does the caller need?

Error → Design Question

Pattern Don't Just Say Ask Instead
unwrap panics "Use ?" Is None/Err actually possible here?
Type mismatch on ? "Use anyhow" Are error types designed correctly?
Lost error context "Add .context()" What does the caller need to know?
Too many error variants "Use Box" Is error granularity right?

Thinking Prompt

Before handling an error:

  1. What kind of failure is this?

    • Expected → Result<T, E>
    • Absence normal → Option
    • Bug/invariant → panic!
    • Unrecoverable → panic!
  2. Who handles this?

    • Caller → propagate with ?
    • Current function → match/if-let
    • User → friendly error message
    • Programmer → panic with message
  3. What context is needed?

    • Type of error → thiserror variants
    • Call chain → anyhow::Context
    • Debug info → anyhow or tracing

Trace Up ↑

When error strategy is unclear:

"Should I return Result or Option?"
    ↑ Ask: Is absence/failure normal or exceptional?
    ↑ Check: m09-domain (what does domain say?)
    ↑ Check: domain-* (error handling requirements)
Situation Trace To Question
Too many unwraps m09-domain Is the data model right?
Error context design m13-domain-error What recovery is needed?
Library vs app errors m11-ecosystem Who are the consumers?

Trace Down ↓

From design to implementation:

"Expected failure, library code"
    ↓ Use: thiserror for typed errors

"Expected failure, application code"
    ↓ Use: anyhow for ergonomic errors

"Absence is normal (find, get, lookup)"
    ↓ Use: Option<T>

"Bug or invariant violation"
    ↓ Use: panic!, assert!, unreachable!

"Need to propagate with context"
    ↓ Use: .context("what was happening")

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 167 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 9760e9433bfa

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m06-error-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository moeru-ai/auv (27 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,150 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 2026-08-30.