A robust resilience layer for AI agents that automates API error categorization and implements intelligent retry strategies.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install api-resilience-handler
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install api-resilience-handler using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Skylv API Error Handler?
Skylv API Error Handler is a sophisticated reliability module designed specifically for the Openclaw Skills ecosystem. It addresses the inherent instability of external API integrations by providing a standardized way to analyze, categorize, and recover from failures. By integrating this skill, developers can ensure their AI agents remain operational even during network turbulence or rate-limiting events, significantly improving the uptime and dependability of automated workflows using Openclaw Skills. This tool acts as a safeguard, ensuring that transient errors do not derail complex agentic tasks.
Skylv API Error Handler Use Cases
- Recovering from 429 Rate Limit errors using automated backoff timers within Openclaw Skills.
- Analyzing and logging network timeouts to identify unstable third-party endpoints.
- Implementing Fibonacci or Exponential retry patterns for non-critical server errors.
- Differentiating between recoverable validation errors and critical authentication failures to trigger appropriate agent responses.
How Skylv API Error Handler Works
- The skill intercepts or receives API error responses and status codes from external services integrated into Openclaw Skills.
- It categorizes the error into one of eight specific buckets, such as rate-limit, timeout, or validation, based on HTTP codes.
- Based on the categorization, it determines if the error is retryable and assigns a severity level (warning, error, or critical).
- If the error is retryable, it executes a selected strategy like exponential, linear, or fibonacci backoff to minimize further load.
- It logs the event and updates internal statistics for long-term health monitoring and performance analysis.
Skylv API Error Handler Setup
To get started with this skill in your environment, follow these steps:
- Install the skill using your preferred package manager or the Openclaw Skills CLI:
openclaw install skylv-api-error-handler
- Verify the installation by running a test analysis command:
node api_error_handler.js analyze "rate limit exceeded" 429
- Configure your retry preferences and log levels in the skill configuration file to align with your specific API requirements.
Skylv API Error Handler Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill maintains a structured taxonomy for error handling and logging as part of the Openclaw Skills framework:
| Data Point | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Category | String | The functional group (e.g., rate-limit, auth, network) |
| Severity | Enum | warning, error, or critical based on impact |
| Retryable | Boolean | Flag indicating if a retry attempt is logically sound |
| Strategy | String | The selected backoff pattern (exponential, fibonacci, etc.) |
All session logs and error statistics are stored in a standardized format to allow for cross-agent analysis within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Skylv API Error Handler Advanced Features
- Full integration with the self-healing-agent to automatically fix detected configuration errors.
- Support for four distinct backoff patterns including custom Fibonacci sequences for complex recovery scenarios.
- Comprehensive statistics reporting via the
statscommand to monitor API health across multiple Openclaw Skills. - Real-time severity assessment to trigger emergency alerts or fallbacks for critical authentication or network failures.
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