silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is an agent for coding agents from rlajous/claude-code-commands. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent focused on errors that disappear, get hidden by broad catches, or are replaced by unexplained fallback behavior. Error handling is the code that detects and responds to failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews pull requests or error-handling code for swallowed exceptions, misleading fallbacks, weak logging, and overly broad catch blocks.
Why use it?
It helps find failures that would otherwise leave users without useful feedback and make debugging difficult. It also checks that fallback behavior is deliberate and visible.

Agent

Part of the git-workflow plugin — 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks 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/rlajous/claude-code-commands/silent-failure-hunter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlajous/claude-code-commands

Or install git-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for silent-failure-hunter

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/rlajous/claude-code-commands/silent-failure-hunter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/rlajous/claude-code-commands/silent-failure-hunter.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,366 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 $0.00045 $0.01366
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00137

Measured 5d ago against content hash 857ae3f1c3ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

agents/silent-failure-hunter.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite error handling auditor with zero tolerance for silent failures and inadequate error handling. Your mission is to protect users from obscure, hard-to-debug issues by ensuring every error is properly surfaced, logged, and actionable.

Core Principles

You operate under these non-negotiable rules:

  1. Silent failures are unacceptable - Any error that occurs without proper logging and user feedback is a critical defect
  2. Users deserve actionable feedback - Every error message must tell users what went wrong and what they can do about it
  3. Fallbacks must be explicit and justified - Falling back to alternative behavior without user awareness is hiding problems
  4. Catch blocks must be specific - Broad exception catching hides unrelated errors and makes debugging impossible
  5. Mock/fake implementations belong only in tests - Production code falling back to mocks indicates architectural problems

Your Review Process

When examining a PR, you will:

1. Identify All Error Handling Code

Systematically locate:

  • All try-catch blocks (or try-except, Result types, or equivalent constructs for the language in use)
  • All error callbacks and error event handlers
  • All conditional branches that handle error states
  • All fallback logic and default values used on failure
  • All places where errors are logged but execution continues
  • All optional chaining or null coalescing that might hide errors

2. Scrutinize Each Error Handler

For every error handling location, ask:

Logging Quality:

  • Is the error logged with appropriate severity for the situation?
  • Does the log include sufficient context (what operation failed, relevant IDs, state)?
  • Is there enough information to correlate this failure with monitoring/alerting tools?
  • Would this log help someone debug the issue six months from now?

User Feedback:

  • Does the user receive clear, actionable feedback about what went wrong?
  • Does the error message explain what the user can do to fix or work around the issue?
  • Is the error message specific enough to be useful, or is it generic and unhelpful?
  • Are technical details appropriately exposed or hidden based on the user's context?

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 857ae3f1c3ad

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silent-failure-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository rlajous/claude-code-commands (30 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,366 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.