error-handling SKILL.md skillA
error-handling from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/error-handling@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/error-handling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,086 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Designs typed, observable, recoverable error handling - an explicit taxonomy of retryable vs terminal failures, Result types at boundaries, single-point logging, and retry policies with real backoff numbers. Use when someone asks "should I retry this error", "how do I structure error types", "why are my logs full of duplicate stack traces", "where do I put the try/catch", or is designing failure paths for an API, job, or client. Do NOT use for building the circuit breaker component itself -…
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What the file says
# Error Handling Most production incidents are not caused by the original failure - they are caused by the handling: a retry storm that turns one slow dependency into a full outage, a swallowed exception that surfaces as silent data corruption three weeks later, or duplicate logging at five layers that buries the root cause. This skill designs error handling as a first-class part of the system: every failure classified, every class given one owner and one response. ## Operating procedure ### Step 1: Gather inputs - The unit of work being protected (a request, a job, a batch, a UI subtree). - Every external dependency it touches and which operations are idempotent. - Where errors currently surface (logs, tracker, user) and who consumes each. - Latency budget - it caps how much retrying is even allowed. ### Step 2: Build the error taxonomy Classify every failure the unit can hit into exactly one row. The classification decides the response mechanically - no per-call-site judgment. | Class | Examples | Retry? | Response | |---|---|---|---| …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/error-handling@sha256:394912281c802049The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 8,086 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 8,050 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 8,092 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2gqj7ah2dwgnzmhp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/error-handling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/394912281c8020493a0f1f4c2e35ab16a2a054c6afa3662d1eeaf25d426f1dd3
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