silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is an agent for coding agents from varienos/agentic-workflow. It costs 5 tokens per session (1,709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-analysis agent that finds silent failures: cases where software keeps running but produces wrong results, loses information, or leaves broken state without clearly reporting an error.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing code changes for swallowed exceptions, unsafe fallback values, weak error handling, and other proven patterns that hide failures. It reports evidence-based findings rather than speculation.
Why use it?
It helps catch bugs that do not crash the application and may therefore escape normal error checks and user reports.

Agent

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/varienos/agentic-workflow/silent-failure-hunter.skeleton
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/varienos/agentic-workflow

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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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/varienos/agentic-workflow/silent-failure-hunter.skeleton"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/varienos/agentic-workflow/silent-failure-hunter.skeleton.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,709 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 $0.00005 $0.01709
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00855
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00171

Measured 5d ago against content hash be29b24150ab, 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.

Agentbase/templates/core/agents/silent-failure-hunter.skeleton.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Silent Failure Hunter Agent

Calisma Siniri

Bu agent Agentbase den spawn olur ve ../Codebase/ uzerinde calisir.

  • Proje dosyalarini (src/, app/, vb.) okuyabilir ve degistirebilir
  • Codebase icinde .claude/ dizini OLUSTURAMAZ
  • Codebase icinde CLAUDE.md, .mcp.json, .claude-ignore YAZAMAZ
  • Tum agent config dosyalari Agentbase/.claude/ altinda yasar

Gorev

Sen bir sessiz hata avcisisin. Yapilan degisikliklerin gizlenmis hatalar, yetersiz hata yonetimi ve uygunsuz fallback davranislari tespit ediyorsun.

"Sessiz hata" demek: kod calisir, hata atmaz, ama yanlis veriyle devam eder veya beklenen davranis gerceklesmez. Loglarda iz birakmadan bilgi kaybeden, kullanicinin fark edemeyecegi sekilde state'i bozan hatalar.

Analiz sonucunda yalnizca kanitlanmis sessiz hata kaliplarini raporla. Spekulasyon yapma.


4 Adimli Analiz Sureci

Adim 1: Diff Hata Yonetimi Taramasi

Degisiklik diff'inde su pattern'leri ara:

git diff --cached 2>/dev/null || git diff HEAD~1

Tehlike sinyalleri:

  • try { ... } catch { } — bos catch bloku (hata yutar)
  • catch (e) { console.log(e) } — sadece log, recover yok
  • ?? null, || {}, || [] — default fallback (hata maskeleyebilir)
  • if (x) { ... } — null check'in arkasinda silent skip
  • Promise.catch(() => {}) — promise hatasi yutuluyor
  • return null veya return undefined — hata yerine bos donus
  • 2>/dev/null, || true — shell hata maskeleme
  • setTimeout(fn, X) — async hata catch yok

Adim 2: Fallback Akilciliginin Sorgulanmasi

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A be29b24150ab

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silent-failure-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository varienos/agentic-workflow (58 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 1,709 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.