combined-review-silent-failure-hunter

combined-review-silent-failure-hunter is a skill for Claude Code from IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review skill focused on error handling in changed lines. It looks for errors that are caught, ignored, replaced with unjustified defaults, or left without useful feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect pull requests for empty catch blocks, broad exception handling, swallowed errors, risky fallbacks, and missing error reporting.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where software appears to succeed while hiding a failure, making bugs harder to notice and diagnose. It limits findings to code added or modified in the change under review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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

Good fit Use it to inspect pull requests for empty catch blocks, broad exception handling, swallowed errors, risky fallbacks, and missing error reporting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivanlutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins/silent-failure-hunter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins --skill 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 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00045 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 8d ago against content hash f424b076c7e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

combined-review-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 8d 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/skills/generated-from-agents/silent-failure-hunter/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Converted from Claude Code agent silent-failure-hunter. Codex has no separate agents concept; this runs as a standalone skill.

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?

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 8d ago First seen · 92 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A f424b076c7e8

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combined-review-silent-failure-hunter is a skill published in the GitHub repository IvanLutsenko/awac-ai-agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 944 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.

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