Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni/plugin install giovanniWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/branch-out)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/branch-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/branch-out/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/branch-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jaroslavsoucek-art/giovanni/branch-out.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.01730 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00692 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00346 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
branch-out scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/giovanni:branch-out
Run an active predictive simulation on a high-stakes situation surfaced by today's digest, a 1:1 brief, or a topic-shard escalation. This command is a thin shell — the 8 binding principles (no percentages, max horizon t+2, hard stop on shallow actors, no recommended move, canonical names from registry, invisible shadow hypotheses, adversarial lookback, decision records draft only) live in the giovanni:prediction-runtime agent. This file is the invocation contract.
Usage
/giovanni:branch-out <situation-slug> # required positional
/giovanni:branch-out <situation-slug> --from-digest # use today's digest as triage source
Example: /giovanni:branch-out fundraise-followup-call-2026-05-27
Argument syntax
| Arg | Type | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
<situation-slug> |
positional, required | — | Kebab-case identifier for the situation. Must match the slug surfaced in today's /giovanni:digest "Active branch-out candidates", a brief reference, or a topic shard escalation. Used as primary key in memory/branch-out/<today>-<slug>.md and the decision record draft. |
--from-digest |
boolean flag | off | Pull triage context from today's /giovanni:digest rendered output (must have run earlier today). Without this flag, the orchestrator infers situation context from existing files or asks the principal. |
If <situation-slug> missing → STOP: ERROR: /giovanni:branch-out requires <situation-slug>. Usage: /giovanni:branch-out <kebab-case-slug>.
Pre-flight (binding — STOP on failure)
Before spawning giovanni:prediction-runtime:
- CWD check. Working directory is a Giovanni repo (presence of
memory/triage-heuristic.yaml+knowledge/<constitution>.md). Otherwise STOP with diagnostic. - Agent definition present.
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agents/prediction-runtime.mdexists. Missing → STOP:ERROR: prediction-runtime agent definition missing. Cannot run /giovanni:branch-out. - Triage heuristic present.
memory/triage-heuristic.yamlparses. Missing or malformed → STOP:ERROR: memory/triage-heuristic.yaml missing or unparseable. Predictive layer is not configured. - Canonical moves registry present.
memory/branch-out/canonical-moves.mdexists. Missing → STOP:ERROR: memory/branch-out/canonical-moves.md missing. Register canonical move names per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/prediction.md before running /giovanni:branch-out. - No stale draft for today. If
memory/decisions/<today>-<situation-slug>.mdalready exists withstatus: draft, surface a warning (not a STOP):WARN: Decision draft for <slug> already exists from earlier run. The new run will overwrite. Proceed? [y/N]. Default = abort.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today First seen · 104 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f3cf803f4f50
branch-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,730 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-17.
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