# council

council collects separate judgments from several models or contexts and merges them into one report that keeps disagreements visible.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3000 installs · ★ 450
- Author: boshu2
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/HEAD/skills/council/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/boshu2-council

## What it does

Hard questions often hide alternatives and assumptions that a single answer flattens. This skill collects views one at a time, holds each initial response shut until the others are in, then merges everything into `council-report.v1`. The output is checked against `schemas/council-report.v1.schema.json` by `scripts/validate-output.sh`.

Every participant receives the same bounded packet of facts and cited sources, never the author's preferred conclusion. It runs in several shapes: brainstorm, design or plan, validation, a duel with cross-scoring, and an interview panel. In duel scoring peer work appears under neutral labels such as A, B, C while the judge mapping stays in each `judgment`.

No verdict comes out of it. Ask for `PASS`, `FAIL` or a readiness call and the skill declines, because a fresh Validate read owns that. Judges sharing one model or one evidence method count as a single confirmation however many agree. Anything contradicting the caller's decision is filed as `caller_challenge` instead of being folded into consensus. Installation runs through `npx skills add`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill council -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/council/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill council -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/council/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill council -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/council/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install boshu2/agentops council
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/council/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill council -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/boshu2/agentops --path skills/council
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/council/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill council -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/HEAD/skills/council/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get a second opinion on a contested architecture call
- merge several reviewers' findings into one report
- surface where participants split and keep dissent intact
- rank competing ideas through mutual scoring in a duel
- catch agreement inside one model passed off as independent confirmation

## Example prompts
- Run a council on which storage layer to use for this service, with each participant answering independently, then show me where they diverge.
- Merge these reviewer notes into `council-report.v1` and don't treat agreement within one model as a separate confirmation.
- Hold a duel over the migration plan and order the ideas by how much the participants agree.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: council
description: 'Compare independent opinions from several models or contexts without inflating agreement. Use when: wanting a second opinion or debate, or summarizing several reviewers'' results.'
practices: [llm-eval-harness, design-by-contract]
hexagonal_role: domain
consumes: [explicit-question, evidence]
produces: [council-report.v1]
context_rel: []
skill_api_version: 1
user-invocable: true
metadata:
  graph_root: true
  tier: judgment
  dependencies: []
  capabilities: [collect_independent_judgments, synthesize_disagreement, bounded_deliberation, duel_scored_ideas, answer_interview_panel]
  effects: [write_advisory_council_report]
  canonical_status: canonical
  disposition: keep_strategy
output_contract: council-report.v1 JSON (schemas/council-report.v1.schema.json) validated by this skill's scripts/validate-output.sh
---

# Council

Council is an optional judgment strategy for hard questions where contrasting
perspectives can expose alternatives, assumptions, or missed evidence. Use it
when the caller selects multiple views for brainstorming, architecture or
planning, or validation. Name the uncertainty that makes the additional
contexts useful; routine work needs no council. Neighbours: one opinion or
look-over is [Review](../review/SKILL.md), one adversarial challenge of a plan
is [Premortem](../premortem/SKILL.md), one consequential choice for Plan is
[Idea Genie](../idea-genie/SKILL.md), and an acceptance verdict is
[Validate](../validate/SKILL.md).

## Rules that decide the synthesis

They hold for a council you run and for judgments the caller already collected
elsewhere (several reviews, subagent reads) and asks you to synthesize.
Judgments made against different revisions are separate subjects, never
agreement on one.

- **No verdict.** Council returns no `PASS`, `FAIL`, `NOT_PROVEN`, readiness
  or approval, even when asked to turn agreement into one. Decline, and say
  that a fresh Validate read owns that judgment. The report goes to the caller
  as advisory findings, which cannot stand in for it.
- **Echo consensus weighs as one.** Agreement among judges that share one
  model or one evidence method counts as one confirmation, however many judges
  share it: unanimity from identical inputs and one shared method is not
  independent confirmation. Each consensus point names the `methodologies`
  (static reading, executing the subject, tracing history) and, where judges
  record `model_identity`, the `models` of its supporting judges; a point with
  only one of either sets `weighs_as_one: true`.
- **The caller's direction stays the default.** A judgment that contradicts
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