error-handling

error-handling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from srstomp/pokayokay. It costs 43 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing how software detects, represents, recovers from, and explains errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add typed errors, React error boundaries, structured API responses, retries, fallbacks, circuit breakers, and Sentry tracking.
Why use it?
It replaces inconsistent failures with clear error categories, recovery options, useful debugging context, and understandable user messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pokayokay plugin — 24 skills, 23 commands, 14 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/srstomp/pokayokay/error-handling
Any agent
npx skills add srstomp/pokayokay --skill error-handling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srstomp/pokayokay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pokayokay, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 23 commands, 14 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for error-handling

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 692 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.00692
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00346
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 4d ago against content hash ac0ce9ea9387, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

plugins/pokayokay/skills/error-handling/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Error Handling

Design resilient applications through intentional error handling strategies. Errors are data, not just exceptions — design them intentionally.

Quick Decision Guide

Situation Pattern Reference
Typed error categories Custom error classes error-patterns.md
Explicit handling (no throws) Result/Either type error-patterns.md
React component crash Error boundary react-errors.md
API error response Structured API errors api-errors.md
Network calls that fail Retry with backoff recovery-patterns.md
Unreliable downstream service Circuit breaker recovery-patterns.md

Key Principles

  • Debuggable: Rich context, stack traces, correlation IDs
  • Recoverable: Retry logic, fallbacks, circuit breakers
  • User-friendly: Clear messages, recovery guidance, no leaked internals
  • Consistent: Same error shape across all API endpoints

Quick Start Checklist

  1. Define base AppError class with code and context
  2. Create domain-specific error subclasses
  3. Implement consistent API error response shape
  4. Add error boundaries at app, route, and component levels
  5. Set up error tracking (Sentry) with scrubbing

References

Reference Description
error-patterns.md Custom errors, Result types, error hierarchies
react-errors.md Error boundaries, Suspense, React error handling
api-errors.md HTTP errors, response shapes, status codes
recovery-patterns.md Retry, circuit breaker, fallbacks, degradation
overview.md Error types, Result pattern, user messages, tracking, anti-patterns
anti-rationalization.md Iron Law, common rationalizations, red flag STOP list for error handling discipline
tdd-patterns.md Test-first patterns for error paths, retry logic, boundaries
review-checklist.md Error handling review checklist (classes, messages, recovery, tracking)

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 4d ago First seen · 53 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ac0ce9ea9387

Subscribe to this mod's changes

error-handling is a skill published in the GitHub repository srstomp/pokayokay (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 692 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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