# Revit Failure Handling

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-failure-handling`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Nice3point](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/nice3point)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Nice3point](https://github.com/Nice3point)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Nice3point/revit-skills/tree/main/plugins/revit-api/skills/revit-failure-handling

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-failure-handling
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Revit Failure Handling

`RevitApiContext.BeginFailureSuppressionScope` (from `Nice3point.Revit.Toolkit`) returns a disposable scope that resolves or cancels Revit failures without showing a user dialog.
Use it only for a known failure the operation can safely handle — never to make an unknown failure appear successful.

## When to use

- A predictable warning or recoverable error blocks a headless operation (opening, family load, transaction commit).
- Reviewing that suppression is bounded to the operation that raises the failure.

## When not to use

- The interruption is a UI dialog rather than a failure — use `RevitContext.BeginDialogSuppressionScope`.
- The API is being called from outside the API context — dispatch the work through a Toolkit external event.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Confirm the failure is expected

Reproduce it with the smallest representative model, confirm it is a warning or recoverable error (not a real processing failure), and confirm that resolving or cancelling it preserves the required output.
Keep the failure details in structured logs or test diagnostics.

### Step 2: Bound the suppression scope

Wrap only the operation that owns the expected failure; leave unrelated work outside the scope.
The scope hooks the application-level `FailuresProcessing` event; it covers both a transaction commit and a document open.

```csharp
using (RevitApiContext.BeginFailureSuppressionScope())
{
    using var transaction = new Transaction(document, "Operation");
    transaction.Start();
    // ... operation that raises the expected failure
    transaction.Commit();
}
```

Opening a file can raise the same recoverable warnings.
In an unattended or headless host (for example Autodesk Design Automation) no user can dismiss the dialog; open the document inside the scope:

```csharp
using (RevitApiContext.BeginFailureSuppressionScope())
{
    var document = RevitApiContext.Application.OpenDocumentFile(path);
}
```

### Step 3: Choose resolve or cancel

The default resolves resolvable failures.
Pass `resolveErrors: false` when the caller must instead observe unresolved errors rather than have them auto-resolved.

### Step 4: Verify

Assert the resulting document or artifact is valid, and confirm an unrelated failure still reaches the normal error boundary.

## Validation

- [ ] The suppressed failure is known and expected.
- [ ] The scope covers one bounded operation, not unrelated work.
- [ ] The resulting model or file remains valid.
- [ ] Unrelated failures remain observable.

## Common Pitfalls

| Pitfall                                       | Correct approach                                                      |
|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Wrapping a whole pipeline to hide any failure | Scope suppression to the one operation that raises the known failure. |
| Suppressing a UI dialog with a failure scope  | Use `RevitContext.BeginDialogSuppressionScope`.                       |
| Auto-resolving errors the caller must see     | Pass `resolveErrors: false`.                                          |
| `RevitApiContext` not found                   | The `Nice3point.Revit.Toolkit` package is not referenced.             |

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Nice3point](https://github.com/Nice3point)
- **Source:** [Nice3point/revit-skills](https://github.com/Nice3point/revit-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-failure-handling
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/nice3point
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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