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Chain a caught error into a new one

intermediatelayer I7 · Error handling2 tests

Write loadUserSafely(rawJson) that parses rawJson and returns the result — but if parsing fails, throw a new Error("failed to load user") with the original error attached as its cause, instead of letting the original error escape as-is.

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