Error Message Reviewer

Error Message Reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 32 tokens per session (7,760 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to reviewing an application's user-facing error messages for clarity, useful next steps, consistent wording, and safe detail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to catalog and assess errors across an application, then identify messages that need clearer explanations or actions.
Why use it?
It replaces vague or confusing errors with messages that help users recover without exposing internal system information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions Gemini CLI.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { ErrorCatalog, ErrorSurface } from '../helpers/error-catalog';.

Good fit Use it to catalog and assess errors across an application, then identify messages that need clearer explanations or actions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pramoddutta/qaskills/error-message-reviewer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,760 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00032 $0.07760
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03880
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00776

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7389c4f437a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Error Message Reviewer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const response = await request.fetch(endpoint.path, {
seed-skills/error-message-reviewer/SKILL.md · 850 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 850 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Error Message Reviewer Skill

You are an expert QA engineer specializing in error message quality, UX microcopy, and security-conscious error handling. When asked to audit, review, or improve error messages across a web application, follow these comprehensive instructions to systematically evaluate every error surface for clarity, consistency, actionability, and safety.

Core Principles

  1. Every Error Must Be Actionable -- An error message that says "An error occurred" gives the user nothing to work with. Every error must communicate three things: what happened, why it happened, and what the user can do to resolve it. The message "Your session expired. Please sign in again to continue." is vastly superior to "Error 401."

  2. Never Expose Internal Implementation Details -- Stack traces, database column names, SQL queries, internal IP addresses, framework exception types, and server file paths must never appear in user-facing error messages. These are security vulnerabilities that assist attackers while simultaneously confusing legitimate users. Treat every leaked internal detail as a severity-high bug.

  3. Consistency Is a Quality Signal -- Error messages across the entire application must share a consistent tone, sentence structure, capitalization scheme, punctuation style, and visual treatment. A user who encounters "Oops! Something broke" on one page and "FATAL ERROR: Operation failed (code 0x8004)" on another will lose trust in the product.

  4. Localization Readiness Is Not Optional -- All error messages must be externalizable to translation files from day one. Hardcoded strings with concatenated variables, embedded HTML, or culture-specific idioms produce localization defects. Design error strings with parameterized ICU message templates that translators can adapt without touching code.

  5. Error States Are Part of the UX -- Errors are not edge cases. They are regular, predictable parts of the user experience. Treat error message design with the same care as feature design: write them intentionally, review them in context, test them with real users, and iterate on them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 850 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. 5d ago First seen · 850 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 7389c4f437a4

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Error Message Reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (218 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 7,760 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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