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Better error messages on contract failure

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the linked GitLab issue for the missing requirements, then inspect the contract-failure diagnostics in the Rust crate. Confirm the expected error wording and identify the relevant tests or entry points before defining done as clearer messages covered by regression tests.

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Description

see https://gitlab.com/karroffel/contracts/-/issues/9

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
52
Forks
2
Avg merge
3h 50m
Merged PRs (30d)
12

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