# Tokonomix Council

Runs one question past several models, then has an outside judge turn their findings into a single answer. Useful when a call is too costly to leave to one model.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 1
- Author: TokonoMix
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/TokonoMix/tokonomix-council-mcp
- Updated: 2026-09-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/tokonomix-council

## What it does

Tokonomix Council is an MCP server that puts the same question to a group of models and hands their output to a judge drawn from a different model family. The judge merges the findings into one answer and keeps the points where the participants disagreed visible. The `tokonomix_consensus_ask` tool runs in `consensus`, `diff`, `best_of`, `raw` and `full` modes, and `tokonomix_single_ask` covers the plain single-model path. Model listing and balance checks go through `tokonomix_list_models` and `tokonomix_get_balance`.

The authors are blunt about the limits: on clean accuracy the council matches the best single model and does not beat it, and a SWE-bench bug-detection run showed no measurable gain over re-running one agent. What you do get is less variance across models, a verification layer for agent output, and judge independence. Some features depend on your account or tier — large shared context packs via `tokonomix_upload`, `context.inline` and `context.github_refs` grounding, agent rating of a consensus. When a feature is off, the server says so instead of failing.

You need a `TOKONOMIX_API_KEY` to run it, and the server itself comes down through a single `npx` line. There is also a keyless first-run path through `tokonomix_onboard` and `tokonomix_onboard_verify`. Scope is decisions only: execution, scheduling, routing and memory sit elsewhere.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)
- Environment variables: `TOKONOMIX_API_KEY` — keys and tokens: ask the human for the values, never commit them or put them in shared files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add council -e TOKONOMIX_API_KEY=<TOKONOMIX_API_KEY> -- npx -y tokonomix-council-mcp
```
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### Codex

**Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add tokonomix-council --env TOKONOMIX_API_KEY=<TOKONOMIX_API_KEY> -- npx -y tokonomix-council-mcp
```
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### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "tokonomix-council": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "tokonomix-council-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TOKONOMIX_API_KEY": "<TOKONOMIX_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
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### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "tokonomix-council": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "tokonomix-council-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TOKONOMIX_API_KEY": "<TOKONOMIX_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
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### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add -e TOKONOMIX_API_KEY=<TOKONOMIX_API_KEY> tokonomix-council npx -y tokonomix-council-mcp
```
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## When to use it
- get one answer instead of several conflicting model replies
- see where the models diverged rather than a smoothed-over result
- check an agent's reasoning before acting on it
- record who proposed, who judged and on what input
- send a question to a single model without the consensus path

## Example prompts
- Ask the council whether this module should move to async I/O
- Run consensus on this migration plan and show me where the models disagree
- Do a single-model ask and return the raw response

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