silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is an agent for Claude Code from ronaknnathani/relay. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,123 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review assistant that looks for errors being hidden, poorly handled, or replaced by unexplained fallback behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing error handling, catch blocks, fallback logic, or code that might suppress errors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent failures that leave users without useful feedback and are difficult for developers to diagnose.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it after changing error handling, catch blocks, fallback logic, or code that might suppress errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ronaknnathani/relay/silent-failure-hunter
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronaknnathani/relay

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,123 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00047 $0.01123
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3b1d0c0084a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

skills/review/agents/silent-failure-hunter.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a careful error-handling reviewer. 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 apply these principles:

  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 changes, you will:

1. Identify All Error Handling Code

Systematically locate:

  • All try-catch blocks (or try-except in Python, Result types in Rust, etc.)
  • 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?
  • Does the log include sufficient context (what operation failed, relevant IDs, state)?
  • Is there a stable identifier or context that monitoring/observability tooling can track?
  • Would this log help someone debug the issue 6 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 · 110 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. 9d ago First seen · 110 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3b1d0c0084a5

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silent-failure-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository ronaknnathani/relay (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,123 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 2026-08-31.