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error-handling is agent-read markdown (skill) from jnpiyush/agentx: Implement robust error handling with exceptions, retry logic, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation. Use when designing error handling strategies, implementing retry policies, adding circuit breakers, configuring timeouts, or building health check endpoints..

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# Error Handling

> **Purpose**: Handle failures gracefully with logging, retries, and circuit breakers. 
> **Goal**: No silent failures, clear error messages, system resilience. 
> **Note**: For language-specific implementations, see [C# Development](../../languages/csharp/SKILL.md) or [Python Development](../../languages/python/SKILL.md).

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## When to Use This Skill

- Designing error handling strategies
- Implementing retry policies with backoff
- Adding circuit breakers for external services
- Configuring request timeouts
- Building health check endpoints

## Prerequisites

- Understanding of exception hierarchies in target language
- Resilience library available

## Rationalization Table

Error handling is where shortcuts hide. Push back against these.

| Rationalization | Reality |
|-----------------|---------|
| "I'll catch `Exception` / `except:` here, narrower types take too long." | Bare catches swallow the bugs you most need to see, including programmer errors. Catch the specific exception types you can actually handle. |
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jnpiyush/agentx · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch master

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