silent-failure-hunter

To find swallowed errors and empty catch blocks, scan your codebase for silent failure patterns across Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Bash. This tool detects error suppression, evaluates intentionality and data risk, then assigns CRITICAL, WARNING, or SUGGESTION severities with structured remediation guidance.

Silent failures are code patterns that suppress errors instead of handling them, causing the application to lose data or state without any visible indication. They are difficult to debug because the code appears to work correctly while hiding the underlying error.

Yes, you can detect silent failures in Python and Go code reviews, alongside JavaScript/TypeScript and Bash. The tool evaluates error-suppression patterns for intentionality, safety, and data risk, specifically highlighting dangerous paths like writes or authentication flows.

The best way to check for error suppression during endpoint development is to run a pattern detection scan that identifies empty catches and silent fallbacks. This process outputs a structured report with CRITICAL, WARNING, or SUGGESTION severities and actionable remediation guidance.

Silent failure risks are scored by evaluating patterns for intentionality, safety, and data risk. The tool assigns CRITICAL, WARNING, or SUGGESTION severities to swallowed errors, specifically highlighting data-risk paths like writes or authentication flows in its structured report.