red-flag-green-flag 🚩🟢

Paste what your date said or did. Get the red flags 🚩 and green flags 🟢 decoded into what they actually mean — with zero AI.

“Doesn’t believe in labels” → 🚩 wants you available, but never accountable. “We don’t need a title” → 🚩 I want plausible deniability. “Text me when you get home safe” → 🟢 genuinely cares whether you’re okay. “I’m sorry, that was on me” → 🟢 accountability without being dragged to it.

A tiny, 100% local, rule-based tool that scans a text/chat against a curated database of dating red and green flags, decodes each one, and calls it — 🚩 Run, 🟢 Keep them, or 🤔 Mixed signals. No API key, no model, nothing leaves your machine (which matters when you’re pasting the texts).

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Paste the texts. Watch the flags split left (🟢) and right (🚩). Nothing is uploaded — the whole engine runs client-side.

npx red-flag-green-flag "he said he doesn't believe in labels, but he texts me when I get home safe"

  Mixed signals 🤔
  🟢 ██████████░░░░░░░░░░ 🚩
  1 red · 1 green

  🚩 Red flags → what it really means
    “doesn't believe in labels” · Commitment-avoidant
      ↳ Wants you available, but never accountable.

  🟢 Green flags → what it really means
    “texts me when I get home safe” · Caring
      ↳ Genuinely cares whether you're okay.

Why

“Red flag or green flag?” is how a whole generation talks about dating. This puts a tiny engine behind the meme: it highlights the tells in what someone said or did, sorts them into 🚩 and 🟢, decodes each into plain language, and tilts a needle toward run or keep them.

It’s a meme, not couples therapy. A single phrase is never a verdict on a person — “I hate drama” from your funniest friend is a joke; from the person who starts all the drama, it’s a flag. Read the flags here; read the room yourself.

Install

npm i -g red-flag-green-flag     # then:  red-flag-green-flag chat.txt
# or zero-install:
npx red-flag-green-flag chat.txt

Usage

red-flag-green-flag "paste what they said right here"   # a string
red-flag-green-flag chat.txt                            # a file
pbpaste | red-flag-green-flag                            # the clipboard (macOS)
red-flag-green-flag chat.txt --md > flags.md             # Markdown tables
red-flag-green-flag chat.txt --json                      # machine-readable

flagcheck is a shorter alias for the same command.

Flags

| Flag | What it does | | --- | --- | | --md [file] | Markdown tables (🚩 red and 🟢 green) | | --json [file] | Full report as JSON | | --ignore <category> | Skip a category (repeatable) | | --fail-on-red | Exit 1 if the verdict leans red (for the scripters) | | --quiet | No pretty output | | --no-color | Disable ANSI colors |

The flags

| 🚩 Red | 🟢 Green | | --- | --- | | Commitment-avoidant — “let’s keep it casual”, “we don’t need a title” | Communicates — “can we talk about it”, “I was wrong” | | Manipulation — “you’re overreacting”, “if you really loved me” | Respects boundaries — “only if you want to”, “what are you comfortable with” | | Dishonesty — “my ex is crazy”, “it’s complicated” | Self-aware — “I talked to my therapist about it” | | Disrespect — “k”, “it was just a joke” | Makes an effort — “I made a reservation”, “I remembered you said” | | Emotionally unavailable — “u up”, “we should hang out sometime” | Caring — “text me when you get home safe”, “I’m proud of you” | | Controlling — “who were you with”, “why didn’t you reply” | |

Library

The core is pure and browser-safe (no node:*):

import { analyze } from "red-flag-green-flag";

const r = analyze("doesn't believe in labels, but texts me good morning every day");
r.verdict.band;   // "mixed"
r.verdict.tilt;   // 0 (all green) … 50 (even) … 100 (all red)
r.red[0];         // { match: "doesn't believe in labels", category: "avoidant", decode: "…", count: 1 }
r.green;          // [...]

How the verdict works

Each flag carries a weight. We sum the red weights and the green weights separately (no length normalization — a flag is a flag in a one-liner or a paragraph), tilt a needle by their ratio, and call it:

| Verdict | When | | | --- | --- | --- | | Green flag — keep them | green clearly outweighs red | 🟢 | | Mixed signals | both sides show up | 🤔 | | Leaning red | red edges ahead | 🚩 | | Red flag. Run. | red runs away with it | 🚩🏃 |

Privacy

Everything runs locally — CLI and playground both. Open the network tab on the site; nothing leaves. No telemetry, no account, no upload. The screenshots you take are the only thing that goes anywhere, and that’s your call.

Contributing

The most useful contribution is a new flag — the phrase, whether it’s 🚩 or 🟢, the category, and an honest, funny-but-true decode. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT © didrod205

A rule-based decoder, not a relationship oracle. It reads the clichés — your judgment reads the room.