Error Handling Skills

Overview

This skill provides comprehensive error handling, exception management, and logging best practices applicable to all development work. It covers language-agnostic principles and language-specific implementations for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, and Java.

Use this skill when:

• Implementing error handling in any application
• Designing exception hierarchies
• Setting up logging infrastructure
• Handling failures and implementing recovery patterns
• Securing error messages and stack traces
• Testing error conditions
• Debugging production issues

Core Error Handling Philosophy

1. Fail Fast vs Graceful Degradation