error-recovery

Features and purpose

Comprehensive error handling methodology with 13-category taxonomy, diagnostic workflows, recovery patterns, and prevention guidelines. Use when error rate >5%, MTTD/MTTR too high, errors recurring, need systematic error prevention, or building error handling infrastructure. Provides error taxonomy (file operations, API calls, data validation, resource management, concurrency, configuration, dependency, network, parsing, state management, authentication, timeout, edge cases - 95.4% coverage), 8 diagnostic workflows, 5 recovery patterns, 8 prevention guidelines, 3 automation tools (file path validation, read-before-write check, file size validation - 23.7% error prevention). Validated with 1,336 historical errors, 85-90% transferability across languages/platforms, 0.79 confidence retrospective validation.

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