Nicholas Sollazzo @nsollazzo Loop
Silent Failure Hunt
Hunt down swallowed errors, empty catch blocks, ignored return codes, silent fallbacks, and skipped tests, then make each one fail loud or carry an explicit comment justifying the suppression.
- Type
- Loop
- Updated
- 2026-08-26
Install
via Positronick CLI
$positronick loop install silent-failure-hunt
A reliability audit loop that surfaces every place an error could vanish. Each pass triages one swallowed error — an empty catch, an `except: pass`, a skipped or xit test, an ignored fallback — and either makes it throw/log loudly or annotates it with an explicit comment justifying the deliberate suppression. Exits only when the scan finds no unjustified silent failure left.
Loop
- Goal
- no error is swallowed silently — every catch, fallback, and skipped test either surfaces loudly or carries an inline comment justifying the suppression
- Exit when
- the check prints NO_SILENT_FAILURES, or every remaining match has an inline comment justifying the deliberate suppression
Check between iterations
$grep -rnE "catch ?\([^)]*\) ?\{ ?\}|except[^:]*: ?pass|\.skip\(|xit\(|todo!\(|// ?TODO: ?handle" --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" --include="*.js" --include="*.jsx" --include="*.py" --include="*.go" --include="*.rs" . | grep -v node_modules || echo NO_SILENT_FAILURES
Kickoff prompt
›Start the "Silent Failure Hunt" loop.
Goal: no error is swallowed silently — every catch, fallback, and skipped test either surfaces loudly or carries an inline comment justifying the suppression
Max iterations: 10
Between iterations run: grep -rnE "catch ?\([^)]*\) ?\{ ?\}|except[^:]*: ?pass|\.skip\(|xit\(|todo!\(|// ?TODO: ?handle" --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" --include="*.js" --include="*.jsx" --include="*.py" --include="*.go" --include="*.rs" . | grep -v node_modules || echo NO_SILENT_FAILURES
Exit when: the check prints NO_SILENT_FAILURES, or every remaining match has an inline comment justifying the deliberate suppression
Step 1: Run the check, triage the first swallowed error, and make it either throw/log loudly or carry an explicit justification comment.