silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jasmedia/cc-pr-reviewer. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pull-request review tool focused on error handling: code that catches, reports, or recovers from failures. It looks for failures that are hidden, caught too broadly, or reported without useful guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review try-catch or try-except code, error callbacks, fallback behavior, logging, user feedback, and accidental use of mock implementations in production.
Why use it?
It helps prevent production problems from being swallowed by catch blocks, unexplained fallbacks, or vague error messages. That makes failures easier for users to notice and developers to diagnose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to review try-catch or try-except code, error callbacks, fallback behavior, logging, user feedback, and accidental use of mock implementations in production.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasmedia/cc-pr-reviewer/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.

Any agent
npx skills add jasmedia/cc-pr-reviewer --skill silent-failure-hunter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasmedia/cc-pr-reviewer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,217 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 $0.00067 $0.01217
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00122

Measured 11d ago against content hash 39dc8bf0fddf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

cc_pr_reviewer/skills/silent-failure-hunter/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Silent Failure Hunter

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. Review the error-handling code added or modified by the current pull request.

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

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 error ID for tracking (if the project uses one — e.g. a Sentry/error-IDs file)?
  • 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 · 114 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. 11d ago First seen · 114 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 39dc8bf0fddf

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silent-failure-hunter is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasmedia/cc-pr-reviewer (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,217 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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