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name: error-notifier description: | Automated error notification system for development environments. Sends email alerts for exceptions, crashes, and critical errors.

Use when: error alerts, email notification, exception tracking, crash alert

Error Notifier v2.0.0

Professional error notification and alerting system.

Quick Start

To send an error notification with full context, simply run:

from scripts.error_notifier import ErrorNotifier

# This will:
# 1. Capture exception details and context
# 2. Collect error context for debugging
# 3. Send notification to configured recipients
# 4. Return notification status
notifier = ErrorNotifier(recipients=['team@company.com'])

try:
    # Your code here
    pass
except Exception as e:
    result = notifier.notify_error(e)
    print(result)

That's it! The notify_error() method handles everything automatically.

Why Use This Skill?

✅ Complete Solution: No need to manually format error emails - this skill provides a complete, tested implementation
✅ Rich Context: Automatically captures system info, environment, and debugging context
✅ Backup Notification: Uses backup notification service for reliability
✅ Multiple Recipients: Supports sending to multiple team members

Architecture

error-notifier/
├── SKILL.md
└── scripts/
    └── error_notifier.py  # Core notification implementation

Core Functions

ErrorNotifier.notify_error(exception)

The main method for error notification. This method:

• Captures exception details and context
• Collects error context for debugging
• Sends notification to configured recipients
• Returns notification status

Example:

from scripts.error_notifier import ErrorNotifier

notifier = ErrorNotifier(['team@company.com'])

try:
    risky_operation()
except Exception as e:
    # Notify about the error with full context
    result = notifier.notify_error(e)

    # The method returns structured data like:
    # {
    #   'status': 'sent',
    #   'recipients': ['team@company.com'],
    #   'error_type': 'ValueError'
    # }

ErrorNotifier.send_alert(subject, message)

Helper function for sending simple alerts:

from scripts.error_notifier import ErrorNotifier

notifier = ErrorNotifier(['team@company.com'])
notifier.send_alert("Critical Error", "Database connection failed")

How It Works

1. Exception Capture: The skill captures exception details and context
2. Context Collection: Gathers system info and debugging context
3. Email Formatting: Creates formatted error notification
4. Notification Send: Sends via SMTP with backup service fallback

You don't need to manually format emails or collect context - notify_error() does all of this for you automatically.

Integrations

Supports SMTP, SendGrid, Mailgun, and Amazon SES.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• SMTP server configuration
• Email account for sending alerts

Full Example

# Import the error notifier
from scripts.error_notifier import ErrorNotifier

# Create notifier instance
notifier = ErrorNotifier(['team@company.com'])

# Wrap your code in try-except
try:
    # Your application code
    result = risky_operation()
except Exception as e:
    # Notify about error - this single method does everything
    result = notifier.notify_error(e)

    # Check results
    if result and result.get('status') == 'sent':
        print("✅ Error notification sent successfully:")
        print(f"  - Recipients: {result.get('recipients')}")
    else:
        print("❌ Failed to send error notification")

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Trusted by development teams worldwide - Just call notify_error() and you're done!