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rust-error-handling is agent-read markdown (skill) from fusengine/agents: Use when designing Rust error handling — thiserror vs anyhow, typed error enums, #[from] conversions, or recoverable errors vs panics. Not for ownership/borrowing (rust-core-language)..

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What the file says

<objective>
This skill covers the thiserror-for-libraries, anyhow-for-applications split in Rust:
building typed error enums with #[derive(Error)] for library APIs callers can match on,
using anyhow::Result with .context()/.with_context() in application code, and
zero-boilerplate error conversion via #[from].

It also covers the recoverable-errors-vs-panics decision — Result for anything a caller
could reasonably recover from, panic!/unwrap/expect reserved for broken invariants — and
the rule that anyhow::Error must never leak into a library's public API.

Out of scope: general ownership/borrowing design belongs to rust-core-language;
async-runtime-specific error handling is not covered here.
</objective>

# Rust Error Handling

The consensus split: **thiserror for libraries, anyhow for applications.** A library
exposes a typed error its callers can `match`; an application wants one ergonomic error
type and rich context. Getting this boundary right is the whole discipline.

## Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)

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   code depends on it) or a binary/application? That answer picks the tool.
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fusengine/agents · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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