ClaudSkills / Security / identity-access

API Error Handling Design

Quality score: 70/100  ·  Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: identity-access
tool:salesforcetype:integration
Designing HTTP error classification, RFC 7807-style error payload structure, and client-side error parsing for Salesforce REST/SOAP integrations and custom Apex REST endpoints. Use when deciding which HTTP status codes to return from custom Apex REST services, how to structure error response bodies, how to classify inbound API errors as retry-safe vs non-retry-safe, or how to parse Salesforce error responses on the consumer side. NOT for retry execution mechanics or circuit breaker implementation (use retry-and-backoff-patterns). NOT for Apex exception class design (use apex-error-handling-framework). NOT for OAuth error flows (use oauth-flows-and-connected-apps).

What this skill does

API Error Handling Design is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the identity-access sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when deciding which HTTP status codes to return from custom Apex REST services, how to structure error response bodies, how to classify inbound API errors as retry-safe vs non-retry-safe, or how to parse Salesforce error responses on the consumer side. NOT for retry execution mechanics or circuit breaker implementation (use retry-and-backoff-patterns).

Who uses this skill

The API Error Handling Design skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/api-error-handling-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling-design/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling-design/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling-design/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\api-error-handling-design\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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