error-handlinglisted

# Error Handling Use this skill when failure behavior is part of the work. ## What to Apply - Make errors explicit at the boundary where they occur. - Separate user-facing messages from developer diagnostics. - Never silently swallow failures; handle, log, or propagate them. - Add retries only for transient failures and include limits, backoff, and timeout behavior. - Keep error contracts consistent across APIs, jobs, UI flows, and integrations. ## Reference Files - [ai-agent-standards/reference/error-reference-complete.md](../../ai-agent-standards/reference/error-reference-complete.md) - [ai-agent-standards/risk-management/security-constraints.md](../../ai-agent-standards/risk-management/security-constraints.md) - [ai-agent-standards/quality-control/code-review-checklist.md](../../ai-agent-standards/quality-control/code-review-checklist.md) ## Output Expectation Document what can fail, what the user sees, what gets logged, and how the system recovers.