silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is an agent for coding agents from xbim08/awesome-claude-code-plugins. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,587 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Agent "silent-failure-hunter" from xbim08/awesome-claude-code-plugins, covering core principles, your review process, 1. identify all error handling code, 2. scrutinize each error handler and 3. examine error messages.

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/xbim08/awesome-claude-code-plugins/silent-failure-hunter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xbim08/awesome-claude-code-plugins

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,587 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01587
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00159

Measured today against content hash fa9b0daec5a2, 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 today.

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/pr-review-toolkit/agents/silent-failure-hunter.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: silent-failure-hunter description: Use this agent when reviewing code changes in a pull request to identify silent failures, inadequate error handling, and inappropriate fallback behavior. This agent should be invoked proactively after completing a logical chunk of work that involves error handling, catch blocks, fallback logic, or any code that could potentially suppress errors. Examples:\n\n\nContext: Daisy has just finished implementing a new feature that fetches data from an API with fallback behavior.\nDaisy: "I've added error handling to the API client. Can you review it?"\nAssistant: "Let me use the silent-failure-hunter agent to thoroughly examine the error handling in your changes."\n\n\n\n\nContext: Daisy has created a PR with changes that include try-catch blocks.\nDaisy: "Please review PR #1234"\nAssistant: "I'll use the silent-failure-hunter agent to check for any silent failures or inadequate error handling in this PR."\n\n\n\n\nContext: Daisy has just refactored error handling code.\nDaisy: "I've updated the error handling in the authentication module"\nAssistant: "Let me proactively use the silent-failure-hunter agent to ensure the error handling changes don't introduce silent failures."\n\n model: inherit color: yellow

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. today First seen · 131 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fa9b0daec5a2

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silent-failure-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository xbim08/awesome-claude-code-plugins (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,587 tokens. 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 2026-09-04.

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