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honest-failure-surfacing
Playbook for the always-on norm "one message per failure mode; error level is for terminal states only". Load when writing a catch block, a user-facing error string, a disabled control, a progress indicator, or choosing telemetry levels. Does not fire on content loss through filt
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Playbook for the always-on norm "one message per failure mode; error level is for terminal states only". Load when writing a catch block, a user-facing error string, a disabled control, a progress indicator, or choosing telemetry levels. Does not fire on content loss through filters (no-silent-data-drop) or on test skip semantics (prove-it-can-fail).
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Honest failure surfacing
Three field incidents where the surface lied about what failed, plus a storage failure that stayed invisible for hours behind a swallowing loop and a cosmetic progress bar. Layer: norm + playbook — the one-line norm in the global CLAUDE.md is the everyday trigger; this file is the depth.
The rule
Every distinct failure mode gets its own user-facing message; never collapse them into one reassuring string. A surface that cannot say what failed sends the user (and the developer) to fix the wrong thing.
How to apply
- Classify before wording. A catch block once painted every transcription failure as "No connection" while the real cause was a malformed-JWT 401 — costing hours of a field inspection. Distinguish at minimum: auth, offline, server, and input failures.
- A disabled control cannot explain itself. A
disabledbutton swallows the tap, and the handler holding the explanation never runs. If a control can legitimately fail a precondition, let it be pressed and have it say why. - Per-item failures in a loop surface to the user, not just to a log. A sync loop that swallowed per-photo upload errors showed a fake "Uploading…" pulse forever; nothing was uploading. Progress UI reflects real progress or it is a lie.
- A permanently-failed item is surfaced as given up, not silently retried forever — and never allowed to wedge the rest of the queue.
- Error level is for terminal states. Self-healing retries logged at
errordrowned the one terminal give-up that mattered. Retries log at warning; the give-up logs at error.
What this skill does not do
It does not decide what happens to the data on a failing path — no-silent-data-drop owns content preservation. It does not define skip semantics in tests — prove-it-can-fail owns check integrity.
Why
A wrong error message is worse than none: it actively redirects diagnosis. Every incident in the evidence cost hours specifically because the surface asserted a cause it had not established. Evidence: ASH LESSONS_LEARNED 2026-05-28, 2026-06-18, 2026-07-14 (offline), and the CLAUDE.md storage-RLS upsert lesson; ICC L-007 (shared evidence with guard-the-spend-paths).
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name: honest-failure-surfacing description: Playbook for the always-on norm "one message per failure mode; error level is for terminal states only". Load when writing a catch block, a user-facing error string, a disabled control, a progress indicator, or choosing telemetry levels. Does not fire on content loss through filters (no-silent-data-drop) or on test skip semantics (prove-it-can-fail).
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--- name: honest-failure-surfacing description: Playbook for the always-on norm "one message per failure mode; error level is for terminal states only". Load when writing a catch block, a user-facing error string, a disabled control, a progress indicator, or choosing telemetry levels. Does not fire on content loss through filters (no-silent-data-drop) or on test skip semantics (prove-it-can-fail). --- # Honest failure surfacing Three field incidents where the surface lied about what failed, plus a storage failure that stayed invisible for hours behind a swallowing loop and a cosmetic progress bar. Layer: norm + playbook — the one-line norm in the global CLAUDE.md is the everyday trigger; this file is the depth. ## The rule Every distinct failure mode gets its own user-facing message; never collapse them into one reassuring string. A surface that cannot say what failed sends the user (and the developer) to fix the wrong thing. ## How to apply - **Classify before wording.** A catch block once painted every transcription failure as "No connection" while the real cause was a malformed-JWT 401 — costing hours of a field inspection. Distinguish at minimum: auth, offline, server, and input failures. - **A disabled control cannot explain itself.** A `disabled` button swallows the tap, and the handler holding the explanation never runs. If a control can legitimately fail a precondition, let it be pressed and have it say why. - **Per-item failures in a loop surface to the user**, not just to a log. A sync loop that swallowed per-photo upload errors showed a fake "Uploading…" pulse forever; nothing was uploading. Progress UI reflects real progress or it is a lie. - **A permanently-failed item is surfaced as given up**, not silently retried forever — and never allowed to wedge the rest of the queue. - **Error level is for terminal states.** Self-healing retries logged at `error` drowned the one terminal give-up that mattered. Retries log at warning; the give-up logs at error. ## What this skill does not do It does not decide what happens to the data on a failing path — no-silent-data-drop owns content preservation. It does not define skip semantics in tests — prove-it-can-fail owns check integrity. ## Why A wrong error message is worse than none: it actively redirects diagnosis. Every incident in the evidence cost hours specifically because the surface asserted a cause it had not established. Evidence: ASH LESSONS_LEARNED 2026-05-28, 2026-06-18, 2026-07-14 (offline), and the CLAUDE.md storage-RLS upsert lesson; ICC L-007 (shared evidence with guard-the-spend-paths).
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- Dependency or permission surface needs review
- Permission surface may require sandboxing
- Low GitHub adoption signal
- L’approbation de revue IA est absente
- Quality score needs review
- Permission surface needs review: secrets or environment access, shell or command execution
- GitHub adoption: 25 GitHub stars
- Stars/forks activity: 25 stars, 3 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
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- randommonicle/claude-skills
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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- Unknown
- Dernier push GitHub
- 4 oct. 2026
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Qualité
55/100
Prometteur
Confiance
61/100
Sandbox uniquement
Audit
72/100
Revue nécessaire
- Dependency or permission surface needs review
- Permission surface may require sandboxing
- Low GitHub adoption signal
- L’approbation de revue IA est absente
- Quality score needs review
- Permission surface needs review: secrets or environment access, shell or command execution
- GitHub adoption: 25 GitHub stars
- Stars/forks activity: 25 stars, 3 forks; issue activity unavailable in current metadata
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