redline

redline is a skill for Claude Code from jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A draft review command that uses the same adversarial review as review but gives extra attention to exact lines, phrases, and sentences to delete or replace. It remains read-only and returns SHIP, REWRITE, or KILL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for line-level redlines before sending a nearly finished draft. Use the regular review instead when the underlying position still needs challenge.
Why use it?
It is useful when the main position is already chosen but the wording still contains padding, weak phrasing, or unnecessary claims. It focuses editing effort on concrete cuts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the giovanni plugin — 11 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for line-level redlines before sending a nearly finished draft. Use the regular review instead when the underlying position still needs challenge.

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Install

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni
Claude Code
/plugin install giovanni

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install giovanni, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.01486
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00594
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00149

Measured today against content hash 93d9a9878a40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redline 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.

plugin/skills/redline/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/giovanni:redline

Run adversarial review on a draft with emphasis on the verbatim-strike list (lines, phrases, and sentences the principal should delete or replace). This command is an alias for /giovanni:review — same agent (giovanni:adversarial-reviewer), same verdict enum, same protocol — with a prompt parameter that biases the agent's output toward maximal line-level redlines.

Use /giovanni:redline instead of /giovanni:review when:

  • The draft is ready in shape but needs surgical cuts before sending
  • The principal already has the position locked and wants pure strike output, not strategic pushback
  • Cosmetic / RLHF-stylism cleanup is the goal (the agent flags those as a verbatim strike list)

Use /giovanni:review (not /giovanni:redline) when:

  • The position itself may be wrong (strategic pushback is the point)
  • The draft is early-stage and needs counter-case construction, not line edits

The two commands return the same verdict format. The difference is emphasis: /giovanni:redline weights Pass 3 (symmetry/padding/RLHF-stylisms) and the verbatim-strike section higher than the strongest-counter-case section. Both still run all four passes.

Usage

/giovanni:redline <draft-path>                     # required positional
/giovanni:redline <draft-path> --position "..."    # optional one-line position statement
/giovanni:redline <draft-path> --audience external # internal | external | mixed

If <draft-path> is omitted, the orchestrator looks for the draft inline in the message.

Argument syntax

Identical to /giovanni:review:

Arg Type Default Meaning
<draft-path> positional — Relative path to draft file.
--position "<text>" parameterized string derived One-line position statement.
--audience <level> parameterized inferred internal / external / mixed.

Pre-flight (binding — STOP on failure)

Identical to /giovanni:review. See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/review/SKILL.md § Pre-flight.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Changes

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.

  1. today First seen · 112 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 93d9a9878a40

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redline is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaroslavsoucek-art/Giovanni (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,486 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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