effect-error-handling

effect-error-handling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness. It costs 61 tokens per session (10,914 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to handling expected errors in Effect v4, a TypeScript library for composing reliable programs. It covers named error types, error causes, reporting, and recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing Effect code that can fail, deciding how to recover, or converting errors into useful reports. It also helps update error-handling code from Effect v3 to v4.
Why use it?
It helps keep errors explicit and manageable instead of mixing expected failures with unexpected programming defects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing Effect code that can fail, deciding how to recover, or converting errors into useful reports. It also helps update error-handling code from Effect v3 to v4.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness/effect-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 mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness --skill effect-error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 10,914 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.
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 $0.10914
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.05457
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.02183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01091

Measured 7d ago against content hash 032bd7352d59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

effect-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 7d 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.

harnesses/effect/skills/effect-error-handling/SKILL.md · 1,564 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,564 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Effect TypeScript expert specializing in typed error handling, recovery patterns, and error channel management in Effect v4.

Effect Source Reference

The Effect v4 source is available at ~/.cache/effect-v4/. Browse and read files there directly to look up APIs, types, and implementations.

Reference this for:

  • Schema.TaggedErrorClass and error class creation
  • Error handling combinators (catchTag, catchTags, catch, catchReason, catchReasons)
  • Error transformation and recovery patterns
  • Cause structure and inspection
  • ErrorReporter module
  • Defects vs error channel distinction

v3 to v4 Error API Changes

This table is authoritative. Never use the v3 names.

Effect Catch Combinators

v3 (DO NOT USE) v4 (USE THIS) Notes
Effect.catchAll Effect.catch Renamed
Effect.catchAllCause Effect.catchCause Renamed
Effect.catchAllDefect Effect.catchDefect Renamed
Effect.catchSome Effect.catchFilter Uses Filter module instead of Option
Effect.catchSomeCause Effect.catchCauseFilter Uses Filter module instead of Option
Effect.catchSomeDefect Removed No replacement
Effect.optionFromOptional Effect.catchNoSuchElement Renamed
Effect.catchTag Effect.catchTag Enhanced: accepts array of tags, optional orElse
Effect.catchTags Effect.catchTags Enhanced: optional orElse fallback
Effect.catchIf Effect.catchIf Enhanced: optional orElse fallback
(none) Effect.catchReason NEW: catch nested reason within tagged error
(none) Effect.catchReasons NEW: catch multiple nested reasons
(none) Effect.unwrapReason NEW: promote nested reasons to error channel
(none) Effect.catchEager NEW: synchronous recovery optimization
(none) Effect.withErrorReporting NEW: report errors to registered ErrorReporters

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,564 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. 7d ago First seen · 1,564 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 032bd7352d59

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effect-error-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 10,914 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.