cleanup-defensive

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By roohe/agentic-super-skills (GitHub) · coding · 10 stars · scanned at commit f483e54

Remove pointless try/catch blocks and defensive guards that hide errors or add no value. Preserves catches at true system boundaries (HTTP handlers, CLI entry, message consumers). Use when the user asks to remove try/catch, fix error hiding, clean up defensive code, or stop swallowing errors. Example queries — "remove pointless try/catch", "we're swallowing errors", "stop hiding bugs in catch blocks", "clean up the defensive code".

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 4 places.

skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 28grep -rn --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" --include="*.js" -B1 -A5 "try {" \
skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 44grep -rn --include="*.py" -B1 -A5 "try:" . > /tmp/py-try.txt
skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 52grep -rn --include="*.go" -E "_ = .*\.Err|_, _ =" . > /tmp/go-ignored.txt

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skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 57grep -rn --include="*.rs" -E "\.unwrap_or\(|\.unwrap_or_default\(|\.ok\(\)" . > /tmp/rust-defensive.txt

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 32npx eslint --rule '{"no-useless-catch": "error"}' --no-eslintrc . 2>&1 | grep no-useless-catch > /tmp/useless-catch.txt
skills_library/cleanup-defensive/SKILL.md, line 151bun run check 2>&1 || npx tsc --noEmit && npx eslint .

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'cleanup-defensive' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'cleanup-defensive' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named cleanup-defensive already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/roohe/agentic-super-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f483e54f3ad5f202a77d45f2e57f8d970b71195f' -- 'skills_library/cleanup-defensive' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills_library/cleanup-defensive' ~/.agents/skills/'cleanup-defensive' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'cleanup-defensive' ~/.claude/skills/'cleanup-defensive' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`f483e54`	80