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fail-early-pattern

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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By roohe/agentic-super-skills (GitHub) · coding · 10 stars · scanned at commit f483e54

Apply the fail-early (fail-fast) pattern to detect and report errors at the earliest possible point. Covers input validation with guard clauses, meaningful error messages, assertion functions, and anti-patterns that silently swallow failures. Primary examples in R with general/polyglot guidance. Use when writing functions that accept external input, adding input validation before CRAN submission, refactoring code that silently produces wrong results, reviewing PRs for error-handling quality, or…

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'fail-early-pattern' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'fail-early-pattern' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named fail-early-pattern already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/roohe/agentic-super-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f483e54f3ad5f202a77d45f2e57f8d970b71195f' -- 'skills_library/fail-early-pattern' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills_library/fail-early-pattern' ~/.agents/skills/'fail-early-pattern' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'fail-early-pattern' ~/.claude/skills/'fail-early-pattern' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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