API Error Handling

API Error Handling is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by secondsky in claude-skills.

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Install API Error Handling

Copy API Error Handling into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/api-error-handling/skills/api-error-handling ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/api-error-handling/skills/api-error-handling/SKILL.md in secondsky/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-error-handling
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 920 skills

What API Error Handling does

API Error Handling implements standardized API error responses with proper status codes, logging, and user-friendly messages. Use it when building production APIs or adding error recovery and monitoring patterns.

API Error Handling is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. API Error Handling comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-commands, claude-code-hooks, claude-code-plugin and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Error Handling

Implement robust error handling with standardized responses and proper logging.

Standard Error Response Format

{
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters",
    "status": 400,
    "requestId": "req_abc123",
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "details": [
      { "field": "email", "message": "Invalid email format" }
    ]
  }
}

Error Class (Node.js)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about API Error Handling

What else does secondsky publish alongside API Error Handling?
API Error Handling is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from secondsky/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Authentication, API Changelog & Versioning and API Contract Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Error Handling does, and is maintained by secondsky in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the secondsky/claude-skills page.
How does API Error Handling compare to other DevOps skills?
API Error Handling ranks #814 by stars among the 920 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of API Error Handling against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.