code-hidden-failures

code-hidden-failures is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hidden-failure scanner finds code that hides errors or reports success when no useful work happened, such as empty catch blocks, ignored errors, or empty results treated as success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan error handling and success paths, investigate empty scan results, and distinguish discarded errors from silent degradation.
Why use it?
It exposes failures that otherwise disappear from scripts, continuous integration, or user feedback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the code-quality-plugin plugin — 16 skills shipped together

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 skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/code-hidden-failures
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill code-hidden-failures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install code-quality-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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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 3,175 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 $0.00045 $0.03175
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01588
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00635
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00317

Measured yesterday against content hash a4ef3d13b9f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-hidden-failures 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (fixtures/sample.sh, scripts/scan-shell.sh, scripts/test-fixture.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

code-quality-plugin/skills/code-hidden-failures/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hidden-Failure Scanner

Detect code that fails without saying so. Two tracks:

Track Failure shape Example
errors Syntactic — an error signal is discarded catch (e) {}, || true, 2>/dev/null, floating promise, _ = err
degradation Logical — an operation "succeeds" with empty/useless output because a precondition was silently unmet success toast on count === 0, if (!apiKey) return [], a 1-of-3 detector run with no indication

The two were previously separate skills (code-error-swallowing + code-silent-degradation); they are the same user intent — "the work reported success but nothing real happened" — so they live in one scanner with a --track selector.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use another skill instead when...
Scripts/CI report success but real work failed /code:antipatterns — broad multi-category scan
|| true, 2>/dev/null, empty catch {}, except: pass suspected (errors track) /code:review — prose code review
A feature reports success but produces nothing (degradation track) /code:lint — a linter already flags the issue
Scans return 0 results / success banners on empty outcomes /code:dead-code — you suspect code never runs
You need severity classification + a surfacing recommendation

Context

  • Scan path: $ARGUMENTS (defaults to current directory)
  • Language signals: !find . -maxdepth 2 \( -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.bash' -o -name '*.ts' -o -name '*.tsx' -o -name '*.js' -o -name '*.jsx' -o -name '*.py' -o -name '*.go' -o -name '*.rs' \) -type f -not -path './node_modules/*' -not -path './.git/*'
  • App-type signals (frontend): !find . -maxdepth 2 \( -name 'index.html' -o -name 'vite.config.*' -o -name 'next.config.*' \) -type f
  • App-type signals (CLI): !find . -maxdepth 2 \( -name 'bin' -type d -o -name 'Makefile' -o -name 'justfile' \)
  • App-type signals (service): !find . -maxdepth 2 \( -name 'Dockerfile' -o -name '*.service' -o -name 'pyproject.toml' \) -type f
  • Config signals: !find . -maxdepth 2 \( -name '.env*' -o -name 'config.*' -o -name 'settings.*' \) -type f
  • Workflows: !find . -path '*/.github/workflows/*' -maxdepth 3 -name '*.yml' -type f

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. yesterday First seen · 228 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a4ef3d13b9f4

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code-hidden-failures is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,175 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 2026-09-03.

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