Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/better-auth/skills --skill better-auth-explain-error
https://github.com/better-auth/skills/tree/main/better-auth/explain-error
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Explains Better Auth error codes and messages in plain English, lists common causes, and generates error handling code with user-friendly messages and retry logic.
Instead of digging through Better Auth source code or GitHub issues to decode an error, you get causes, fixes, and ready-to-paste error handling code in one step.
When to use it
- Looking up what INVALID_SESSION error means in Better Auth
- Adding proper catch blocks for Better Auth auth failures in a Next.js route
- Finding related error codes when debugging a RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED issue
- Generating production-ready error handling for Better Auth OAuth callback errors
- Understanding when a Better Auth error is retryable vs fatal