Principle Error Handling

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: automation

Error handling principles — errors as values vs exceptions, error classification (transient/permanent/programmer), wrapping and context chains, sentinel vs typed vs coded errors, retry with exponential backoff and jitter, timeouts and deadlines, circuit breakers and bulkheads, log-once boundary discipline. Auto-load when discussing errors as values, Result type, exception handling, retry, exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breaker, fail fast, fail soft, idempotent retry, error wrapping, timeouts, or deadlines.

What this skill does

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

Who uses this skill

The Principle Error Handling skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. 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/principle-error-handling
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/principle-error-handling/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/principle-error-handling/SKILL.md

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

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

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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