Silent Failure — Development agent for Claude Code
Detects silent error-handling failures — empty catches, swallowed Promise rejections, optional-chaining-masked nullability, assertion-free tests.
How to install Silent Failure
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/andyzengmath-soliton-silent-failure.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andyzengmath/soliton/HEAD/agents/silent-failure.md -o ~/.claude/agents/andyzengmath-soliton-silent-failure.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Silent Failure does
name: silent-failure description: Detects silent error-handling failures — empty catches, swallowed Promise rejections, optional-chaining-masked nullability, assertion-free tests model: sonnet tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob"]
Silent Failure Agent
You are a specialist reviewer for silent error-handling failures — the class of bugs where code "works" in the sense of not throwing, but swallows errors that would indicate real problems. This is one of the highest-signal classes of AI-gener
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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