Core Patterns

Provide standardized templates for error handling, decision criteria, and enforcement behaviors across agents and commands.

Updated Mar 15, 2025
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npx skills add https://github.com/yasushiasahi/nix-config --skill core-patterns-yasushiasahi
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Skill: Core Patterns
Source: https://github.com/yasushiasahi/nix-config/tree/main/home-manager/agent-skills/skills/core-patterns
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/yasushiasahi/nix-config --skill core-patterns-yasushiasahi

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides standardized templates for error handling, decision criteria, and enforcement behaviors, preventing duplication and ensuring consistency across agents and commands.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Error Escalation: Defines a consistent 4-level severity pattern for handling errors.
  • Decision Criteria: Offers a standard approach for confidence calculation and validation, including boundary tests.
  • Enforcement: Provides a template for defining mandatory and prohibited behaviors with clear IDs.
  • Use Case: When developing a new agent that needs to process user input, you can reference the core-patterns skill to quickly implement robust error handling and decision-making logic without reinventing the wheel.

Quick Start

Reference the core-patterns skill to implement standardized error escalation logic in your agent.

Frequently Asked Questions about Core Patterns

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I standardize error handling and decision making across multiple agents?

Standardize error handling across agents by referencing shared templates that define a 4-level severity pattern, ensuring consistent quality assessment and preventing duplicated logic.

What is the best way to enforce mandatory and prohibited behaviors in agent logic?

Enforce mandatory and prohibited behaviors by defining clear behavior IDs and weight distributions using standardized templates, ensuring adherence to predefined operational standards across commands.

How do confidence thresholds work for decision validation in agent logic?

Confidence thresholds work by providing a standard approach for calculating and validating decision criteria, including boundary tests, to ensure reproducible agent logic and consistent quality assessment.

Do I need any specific frameworks to implement standardized agent enforcement patterns?

No specific frameworks are required to implement standardized enforcement patterns, as the templates provide dependency-free definitions for severity levels, confidence calculation, and behavior IDs.

Why does my agent logic produce inconsistent quality assessments across different commands?

Agent logic produces inconsistent quality assessments when it lacks standardized templates for error handling, decision criteria, and weight distribution, which are necessary for reproducible and predefined operational standards.