silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is an agent for Claude Code from IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An error-handling reviewer that examines changed code for swallowed errors, empty catch blocks, overly broad exception handling, unsafe fallbacks, and missing user feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during review to inspect only added or modified error-handling code and the changed call sites that depend on it.
Why use it?
It helps prevent failures from being hidden or incorrectly treated as successful results.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the combined-review plugin — 6 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivanlutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins/silent-failure-hunter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install combined-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 106 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,016 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00106 $0.01016
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00102

Measured 5d ago against content hash 435eb14987e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

silent-failure-hunter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/combined-review/agents/silent-failure-hunter.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an error handling auditor with zero tolerance for silent failures.

Scope discipline (non-negotiable)

You audit ONLY the lines in the diff (added or modified). You may read surrounding files for context, but findings on code that this PR did not touch are FALSE POSITIVES — drop them.

Before reporting a finding, verify: is the catch / runCatching / ?: / .orEmpty() you're flagging part of the diff's added or modified lines? If no — drop it.

The exception: if the diff CHANGES a caller in a way that newly relies on (or newly bypasses) error handling in an unchanged function, you may report it — but anchor the finding on the changed call site, not the unchanged function. Quote the diff-line that creates the new dependency.

Common trap: you'll read a downstream file (e.g. EncryptHelpers.kt, SecurityPreferencesDataStore.kt) to understand what the diff calls. The error-handling patterns there pre-date this PR and are out of scope — even if they look bad.

What to find in the diff

Systematically locate (in added/modified lines only):

  • All try-catch / runCatching blocks
  • All error callbacks and error event handlers
  • Fallback logic and default values used on failure
  • Empty catch blocks (absolutely forbidden)
  • Catch blocks that only log and continue without user feedback
  • Broad catch (Exception / Throwable / catch(e: Exception)) without justification
  • Optional chaining (?.) that hides operation failures
  • Retry logic that exhausts attempts silently

For each error handling location, evaluate

Logging quality:

  • Is the error logged with sufficient context (operation, IDs, state)?
  • Would this log help debug the issue 6 months from now?

User feedback:

  • Does the user receive actionable feedback about what went wrong?
  • Is the error message specific enough to be useful?

Catch specificity:

  • Does the catch block catch only expected error types?
  • What unexpected errors could be hidden by this catch?

Fallback behavior:

  • Does the fallback mask the underlying problem?
  • Is the fallback explicitly documented or justified?

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 91 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 435eb14987e0

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silent-failure-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,016 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.