silent-failure-hunter

silent-failure-hunter is a skill for Claude Code from RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review tool that finds error-handling paths where failures are ignored, such as empty catch blocks or fallbacks that hide problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a codebase for swallowed errors, assign severity and confidence to findings, and suggest fixes for each programming language.
Why use it?
It helps prevent bugs from disappearing without a visible error, making failures harder to diagnose.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to inspect a codebase for swallowed errors, assign severity and confidence to findings, and suggest fixes for each programming language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/random6913/claude-code-superkit/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 RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit --skill silent-failure-hunter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,812 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 $0.00037 $0.02812
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00281

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4995cdaec331, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 10d 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.

packages/codex/skills/silent-failure-hunter/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Silent Failure Hunter

Trace failures from the operation through its handler, recovery, caller, and operational signals. Find cases where required failure information or recovery is lost. Silence is a clue, not a verdict: an intentional best-effort operation or expected miss may need neither an exception nor a log per occurrence.

Scope, context, and authority

Read applicable AGENTS.md first, then relevant error policy, architecture, and observability configuration. Establish the selected diff/base or explicit audit scope; do not sweep the whole repository unless requested. Inspect actual code, surrounding control flow, and relevant callers/consumers. Confirm runtime/library versions before relying on version-specific exception, task, or shell behavior.

Review only. Propose fixes, but do not edit code, change logging/alerts, enqueue retries, trigger production failures, or perform external writes without a distinct authorized action. Tests or command examples are not permission to contact real services. Use safe, authorized local checks when needed and redact secrets/private data from logs, excerpts, and reports.

Honor explicit task/project model and effort routing and acceptance ownership. Disclose INDEPENDENT versus INLINE SELF-REVIEW. Report requested/configured route separately from observed runtime values with evidence or UNVERIFIED; missing runtime identity alone creates no new gate. Mandatory independent/Astra acceptance remains pending when unavailable.

Discover, trace, then triage

Use patterns below to locate candidates. Before reporting, establish:

  • Which operation can fail, under which concrete input/state, and which errors are expected versus unexpected.
  • Whether the failure reaches an owner through a return value, exception/cause, result, task handle, status, event, or metric. Read the relevant caller and state transition; a local handler is not the entire error contract.
  • Whether recovery actually restores the promised result, explicitly returns degraded/partial success, or falsely reports success. Logging alone does not correct a wrong state transition; propagation alone may be sufficient if an upstream boundary owns diagnostics.
  • Whether the chosen signal is adequate for the consequence without leaking data or flooding logs. Do not demand a comment plus metric plus alert on every ignored error.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 10d ago Changed · -102 lines · -6 tokens per session 4995cdaec331
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 279 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8130aacff8a3

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silent-failure-hunter is a skill published in the GitHub repository RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,812 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.