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title: "Error Handling Patterns - Air Market"
description: "Code fails in ways nobody planned for, and the handling ends up inconsistent - some places throw, some swallow, some crash. This covers the choices behind that: how errors are represented, how they p…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/error-handling-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Error Handling Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Error Handling Patterns

Decide what happens when things go wrong, before they do

## What this does

Code fails in ways nobody planned for, and the handling ends up inconsistent - some places throw, some swallow, some crash. This covers the choices behind that: how errors are represented, how they propagate, and how a system degrades instead of falling over. Reach for it when designing an API or tightening up reliability.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Choose how errors travel through your code
- Design what an API returns on failure
- Keep a service useful when a dependency fails

## Information

**Error Handling Patterns at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 16 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/developer-essentials/skills/error-handling-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 23,697, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Error Handling Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Error Handling Patterns's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | b6d44d8045582821474faf60d78b3053264ad8f6bb0df68b9af1b079e1fcdc66 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/developer-essentials/skills/error-handling-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Error Handling Patterns](/security/error-handling-patterns)

## About Error Handling Patterns

This covers error handling patterns across languages: exceptions, Result types, error propagation, and graceful degradation.

Use it when you are implementing error handling, designing an API's failure behavior, or working on the reliability of an application.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Error Handling Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Error Handling Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/error-handling-patterns.

### How do I install Error Handling Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/error-handling-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/developer-essentials/skills/error-handling-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/error-handling-patterns>