no-silent-data-drop

no-silent-data-drop is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for code paths that filter, gate, parse, or export content. It treats empty-looking content as something to inspect rather than silently discard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking filters, early exits, fallback logic, model-output parsing, and matching the content produced by different renderers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent content from disappearing when conditions, error handling, fallbacks, or multiple renderers are added.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Checking filters, early exits, fallback logic, model-output parsing, and matching the content produced by different renderers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/no-silent-data-drop
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 randommonicle/claude-skills --skill no-silent-data-drop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00095 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00062

Measured 11d ago against content hash f3da8735e1eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-silent-data-drop 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.

no-silent-data-drop/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

No silent data drop

The ASH 2026-06-04 cluster: user and model content silently vanishing from delivered reports through render gates, model-assigned routing keys, and JSON parse failures — discovered by the recipient, never by the pipeline. Layer: norm + playbook — the one-line norm in the global CLAUDE.md is the everyday trigger; this file is the depth.

The rule

Wherever code can discard data — a filter, a gate, a continue, a catch, a ?? fallback — ask: what happens to the non-matching data? A gate may hide an empty section; it must never drop content. Anything holding content still renders somewhere, and a safe default bucket always beats a drop.

How to apply

  • Gates hide empty things only. A property-flag render gate once dropped mis-classified photos from delivered reports for weeks; the fix routes non-matching content to a visible default section instead.
  • A parse failure never discards content. A truncated model JSON threw in JSON.parse and five report sections vanished silently. Salvage what can be salvaged, log the stop reason, surface the failure.
  • Model-emitted enums, keys, and ids used for routing are untrusted input. Clamp to the canonical vocabulary where the value enters AND again at render (stored rows may hold unclamped values), defaulting unknowns to a visible bucket.
  • Two renderers share the grouping function. Hand-synced twins drift, and the divergence masks the loss — one representation kept all photos while the other dropped them, so the audit trail looked complete.
  • Verify the delivered artifact (count sections, count photos), and be suspicious of any test that asserts content IS dropped — a passing test once encoded the bug.

What this skill does not do

It does not govern how failures are messaged to the user — that is honest-failure-surfacing. It does not apply to filters over data the user never receives (internal telemetry, debug output).

Why

Dropped content is the worst failure class in a document pipeline because the artifact still ships: everything looks successful, and only the recipient can notice the hole. Evidence: ASH LESSONS_LEARNED 2026-06-04 (all entries) and the CLAUDE.md max_tokens truncation lesson; ICC L-008.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A f3da8735e1eb

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no-silent-data-drop is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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