wrdn-effect-typed-errors

A guide for replacing untyped JavaScript errors in Effect code with named, structured failures that callers can handle explicitly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fixing lint findings around thrown errors, rejected promises, catch blocks, and error classification while preserving existing recovery behavior.
Why use it?
It helps keep failure information in the program’s expected error channel instead of turning it into generic thrown exceptions. It also prevents error handling from silently changing failures into empty or unknown values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/usefulsoftwareco/executor/wrdn-effect-typed-errors
Any agent
npx skills add UsefulSoftwareCo/executor --skill wrdn-effect-typed-errors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/executor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,716 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 $0.00062 $0.02716
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00272

Measured yesterday against content hash 16631077797c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wrdn-effect-typed-errors 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/wrdn-effect-typed-errors/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You fix one family of patterns: untyped JavaScript error handling in Effect code.

The preferred boundary is typed Schema.TaggedError / Data.TaggedError values in the Effect error channel. Construct the tagged error directly at the failure site unless a helper performs real classification or normalization.

Trace before changing

  1. Identify the boundary. Is this Effect domain code, React UI code, a third-party callback, or plain test/tooling code?
  2. Find the existing domain errors. Check nearby errors.ts, Schema.TaggedError, Data.TaggedError, and API .addError(...) declarations before adding a new class.
  3. Decide whether a new error is needed. Add a new tagged error only if callers have a distinct recovery path, HTTP status, UI affordance, retry policy, or telemetry classification.
  4. Preserve failure semantics. If the old code failed, the new code should fail in the Effect error channel. Do not replace thrown failures with fallback values like false, null, undefined, [], or "unknown" unless the existing contract already treats that condition as non-fatal.
  5. Preserve the typed channel. Do not convert typed failures into Error, thrown exceptions, String(error), or .message reads from unknown values.
  6. Recognize real boundaries. Runtime workers, Vite/CLI tooling, callback APIs, and third-party interfaces may have to throw, catch, or reject at the boundary. Do not contort those files into fake Effect shapes. Keep the boundary idiom when it is contained and immediately wrapped into an Effect error channel, stable IPC envelope, or test/tooling result.
  7. Do not hide construction behind trivial helpers. Inline new DomainError(...) unless the helper branches on input or maps an external error format into a domain error.

Preserve behavior first

The lint rule is about where the failure lives, not whether the operation should still fail.

Bad fix: this removes the lint finding by silently changing invalid input into a non-match.

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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. yesterday First seen · 360 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 16631077797c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wrdn-effect-typed-errors is a skill published in the GitHub repository UsefulSoftwareCo/executor (3,466 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,716 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.

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