Agent Skills: ❌ BAD - Hides unintended exceptions

Decision Tree

Need exception handling?   → Use specific exceptions (bare-exceptions.md)
Need conditionals?         → Check conditionals.md for patterns
Need boolean checks?       → See bool.md for comparisons
Need type safety?          → Apply typing.md guidelines
Need debugging?            → Use rml-verify.md

Critical Patterns

Don't Catch Bare Exceptions (REQUIRED)

# ❌ BAD - Hides unintended exceptions
try:
    risky_operation()
except:
    handle_error()

# ❌ EQUALLY BAD
try:
    risky_operation()
except Exception:
    handle_error()

# ✅ GOOD - Catch specific exceptions
try:
    risky_operation()
except SpecificException:
    handle_error()

# ✅ OK if reraising
try:
    risky_operation()
except SpecificException as e:
    handle_error(e)
    raise  # Reraise the exception

Why: Bare exceptions hide bugs and give false stability.

Resources

Specialized ML coding patterns in this skill:

• Bare Exceptions: bare-exceptions.md
• Boolean Comparisons: bool.md
• Comments: comments.md
• Conditionals: conditionals.md
• Control Flow: flow.md
• Infinite Loops: infinite-loops.md
• Mutable Defaults: mutable-defaults.md
• RML Verification: rml-verify.md
• Side Effects: side-effects.md
• Type Hints: typing.md
• Unreachable Code: unreachable-code.md