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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Properties > error.prototype.cause

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Error cause. If an error is caught and re-thrown, this property should contain the original error.

This makes me think along the lines of literally

try {
 ...
 try {
  ...
 } catch (exception) {
  // throw it again
  throw exception;
 }
} catch (exception) {
 // it has a .cause now!
 const { cause } = exception;
}

which isn't accurate at all.

On another note, it says Error.prototype.cause, but this is actually an OwnProperty.
See, https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/fundamental-objects.html#sec-installerrorcause.
I don't think that any articles properly make this distinction, nor that there may be infrastructure or precedent for doing so.

What did you expect to see?

The cause is supplied by the code that throws the error object, this should be clarified.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

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