{
  "name": "error-handling",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": ["git diff (all files)"],
  "output_schema": "hard/should/warn with JSON structure (unified)",
  "assumes": [],
  "optional_tools": ["LSP (hover for type enrichment — graceful fallback to text matching)"],
  "scope": [
    "Swallowed errors and empty catch/except blocks",
    "Ignored error returns and discarded error values",
    "Silent fallbacks returning defaults without logging or propagation",
    "Overly broad catching (bare except, untyped catch)"
  ],
  "excludes": [
    "Error message wording or style",
    "Security implications of error handling",
    "Exception chaining style (from e)",
    "Error wrapping format (%w vs %s)",
    "Logging configuration or format",
    "Code style or formatting"
  ],
  "hard_rules": [
    "Ignored error returns (_ = in Go)",
    "Empty catch/except blocks",
    "Bare except: in Python",
    "Broad except Exception: without re-raise in Python",
    "Swallowed promise rejections in TypeScript"
  ],
  "should_rules": [
    "Silent fallback returns (return None, return default) without logging",
    "Catch returns default without logging in TypeScript"
  ],
  "warn_rules": [
    "Errors only logged but not propagated",
    "Broad catch without re-throw in TypeScript",
    "Console-only error handling in TypeScript",
    "Floating promises"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Error Handling Completeness"
  ],
  "batch_size": 50
}