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description: Cross-cutting error handling rules for services, API, and UI.
applyTo: 'src/transcription/**/*.py'
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# Error Handling (Cross-cutting)
Primary references:
- `docs/ver4/error_handling_v4.md`
- `docs/invariant/error_handling.md`
- `docs/ver4/requirements_v4.md`
## Taxonomy and Categories
Use category-driven semantics aligned to canonical V4 policy:
- `validation`
- `not_found`
- `conflict`
- `external`
- `timeout`
- `internal`
Do not invent ad hoc categories in user/API-facing envelopes unless canonical docs are updated.
Runtime/internal categories may be more specific for diagnostics and persistence, but they must map
deterministically to the canonical envelope categories through the centralized mapper in
`transcription.errors.canonical_error_category`.
Current internal categories:
- `validation_error`
- `user_input_error`
- `not_found_error`
- `conflict_error`
- `external_provider_error`
- `external_timeout_error`
- `processing_error`
- `infrastructure_transient_error`
- `infrastructure_persistent_error`
- `internal_unexpected_error`
Required internal -> canonical mapping:
- `validation_error`, `user_input_error` -> `validation`
- `not_found_error` -> `not_found`
- `conflict_error` -> `conflict`
- `external_provider_error` -> `external`
- `external_timeout_error`, `infrastructure_transient_error` -> `timeout`
- `processing_error`, `infrastructure_persistent_error`, `internal_unexpected_error` -> `internal`
## Translation Boundaries
- **Provider/adapters:** raise provider/domain exceptions; do not emit UI text.
- **Services:** map raw exceptions into internal categories and preserve causal chain (`raise ... from ...`).
- **UI/API:** map internal category -> canonical envelope category and emit user-safe, actionable messages.
## Retry Rules
- No auto-retry for `validation`, `not_found`, `conflict`.
- `external`/`timeout` may be retried when operation semantics are safe.
- Preserve each retry as new evidence where applicable (no history rewrite).
## Job/Page Failure Semantics
- Page-level (`JobSource`): `pending`, `transcribed`, `failed`, `cancelled`.
- Job terminals: `transcribed`, `partial_success`, `failed`.
- Cancellation must keep job-level and page-level semantics explicit and consistent.
- Do not emit legacy terminal state language such as `completed` in active user/API lifecycle contracts.
## User-Safe Messaging
- Never leak stack traces, credentials, auth headers, or local filesystem paths in user-facing output.
- Include actionable remediation guidance aligned to category.
- Keep envelope structure consistent across API endpoints.
## Logging and Diagnostics
- Log operation identifiers and error IDs where available.
- Preserve category + cause-chain context.
- Distinguish no-response timeout/network failures from returned provider error responses.
## Guardrails
- No broad catch-and-swallow patterns.
- No success-shaped fallback values after exceptions.
- Category mapping must remain deterministic and testable.
## Contract Sync Rule
If taxonomy, retries, or envelope semantics change:
1. Update canonical docs (`docs/ver4/error_handling_v4.md`, and invariant docs if needed).
2. Update tests in the same change.
3. Update related instruction/skill references.
4. If change affects persisted status/category fields, update `docs/ver4/schema_v4.md` when applicable.