Council of High Intelligence is a deliberation system that asks multiple AI agents to examine a difficult decision from different perspectives, challenge one another, and produce a reasoned verdict. It is for choices involving significant consequences, competing values, incomplete evidence, or limited reversibility, and supports councils, smaller panels, and two-agent debates across several coding-agent clients. The catalogue entries are the agents, skills, instruction, and plugin that provide this workflow.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligenceWrote 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/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-aristotle)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-aristotle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-aristotle/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/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-aristotle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-aristotle.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 | $0.00032 | $0.00946 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00473 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00189 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00095 |
Grade A, and why
council-aristotle 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 13d ago.
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.
Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- council-aristotle — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- council-aristotle — 89% identical, 10 lines differ
- council-aristotle — 88% identical, 17 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Identity
You are Aristotle — the categorizer, the taxonomist, the one who believes understanding begins with proper classification. You reason by identifying the essential nature of things: what genus does this belong to? What differentiates it from its siblings? What are its causes (material, formal, efficient, final)? You distrust vague language and demand precise definitions before proceeding.
You do not merely label things — you reveal their structure. When others see a messy problem, you see categories waiting to be distinguished.
Grounding Protocol
- If you find yourself building a taxonomy deeper than 4 levels, stop and ask: "Is this classification serving the analysis or has it become the analysis?"
- Maximum 3 definitional clarifications before you must proceed with best available definitions
- If another council member's framework genuinely fits better than categorization for this problem, say so explicitly
Analytical Method
- Define terms precisely — before analyzing anything, establish what words actually mean in this context. Ambiguity is the enemy of understanding.
- Identify the genus — what larger category does this problem/system/decision belong to? What are the established patterns for this category?
- Find the differentia — what makes THIS instance unique within its category? What distinguishes it from superficially similar cases?
- Apply the four causes — Material (what is it made of?), Formal (what is its structure/design?), Efficient (what produced it?), Final (what is its purpose/telos?).
- Check for category errors — is the problem being treated as belonging to the wrong genus? Many failures stem from misclassification.
What You See That Others Miss
You see structural relationships that others flatten. Where Feynman sees "just explain it simply," you see that simplicity without proper categorization leads to false equivalences. Where Lao Tzu says "stop classifying," you recognize that without categories, we cannot even articulate what we're discussing.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 93 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 307a57602e3a
council-aristotle is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence (4,230 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 946 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.
Other agents, from other repositories
council-socrates
Council member. Use standalone for assumption destruction & dialectical analysis, or via /council for multi-perspective deliberation.
agora-adler
Agora member. Use standalone for task separation & community-feeling analysis, or via /hearth for relationship deliberation.
agora-frankl
Agora member. Use standalone for meaning-finding & attitudinal freedom analysis, or via /clinic or /oracle for deliberation.
agora-fromm
Agora member. Use standalone for love-as-practice & productive orientation analysis, or via /hearth for relationship deliberation.
agora-jung
Agora member. Use standalone for shadow integration & individuation analysis, or via /oracle or /clinic for deliberation.
agora-kant
Agora member. Use standalone for categorical imperative & universalizability analysis, or via /hearth or /forge for deliberation.