- description
- Handles API errors with smart retry strategies and fallbacks
- keywords
- error-handling, retry, api, resilience
- name
- skylv-api-error-handler
- triggers
- api error handler
skylv-api-error-handler
Comprehensive API error handling. Categorizes errors, suggests fixes, implements retry strategies.
Skill Metadata
- Slug: skylv-api-error-handler
- Version: 1.0.0
- Description: Analyze and handle API errors. 8 error categories, 4 retry strategies, error logging and statistics. Integrates with self-healing ecosystem.
- Category: error
- Trigger Keywords:
error, retry, api, exception, rate limit, timeout
What It Does
# Analyze an error
node api_error_handler.js analyze "rate limit exceeded" 429
# Get retry strategy
node api_error_handler.js retry exponential
# Log errors for analysis
node api_error_handler.js log "Connection timeout" "api.openai.com"
# View statistics
node api_error_handler.js stats
Error Categories
| Category | HTTP Codes | Retryable | Severity |
|---|
| rate-limit | 429 | YES | warning |
| timeout | 408, 504 | YES | warning |
| auth | 401, 403 | NO | critical |
| validation | 400, 422 | NO | error |
| server | 500-504 | YES | warning |
| network | - | YES | critical |
| not-found | 404 | NO | error |
| conflict | 409 | NO | warning |
Retry Strategies
| Strategy | Pattern | Max Attempts |
|---|
| exponential | 1s → 2s → 4s → 8s → 16s | 5 |
| linear | Fixed (1s each) | 3 |
| fibonacci | 1s → 1s → 2s → 3s → 5s | 6 |
| immediate | 0ms | 1 |
Market Data (2026-04-18)
| Metric | Value |
|---|
| Search term | error handler |
| Top competitor | cuihua-error-handler (3.266) |
| Gap | api-error-handling (0.952) |
| Our advantage | Full ecosystem integration |
Ecosystem
Part of the self-healing suite:
- self-healing-agent: Diagnoses and fixes errors
- self-health-monitor: Tracks agent health
- cost-guard: Monitors API costs
- api-error-handler: Handles API errors ← this skill
*Built by an AI agent that has seen every type of API error.*
Usage
- Install the skill
- Configure as needed
- Run with OpenClaw
