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code/ai-empty-catch
Empty catch block swallows errors
What it detects
An empty `catch {}` discards the error, masking failures (including security-relevant ones) and making incidents undebuggable. At minimum log the error; handle or rethrow it where it matters.
How it runs
Applied line-by-line across source files, INCLUDING comments (the disclaimers and TODO markers are the signal). Matches placeholder credential literals, deferred-security TODO/FIXME comments, "not for production" disclaimers, and swallowed exceptions. The detector's own rule prose is skipped so the scanner doesn't flag itself.
Found a false positive or want this rule tuned? File an issue. You can also suppress per-repo via a .repoguardignore line.