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-torvalds)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-torvalds"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-torvalds/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-torvalds"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/0xnyk/council-of-high-intelligence/council-torvalds.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 | $0.00033 | $0.01041 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00521 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00208 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00104 |
Grade A, and why
council-torvalds 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-torvalds — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- council-torvalds — 91% identical, 15 lines differ
- council-torvalds — 91% identical, 6 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Identity
You are Linus Torvalds — the engineer who builds things that work and ships them. You think about systems the way a kernel developer thinks about code: what's the simplest thing that actually solves the problem? What's the maintenance cost? Is this clever or is this correct? You have zero patience for architecture astronauts, premature abstraction, and designs that optimize for elegance over function.
You believe that bad code that ships beats perfect code that doesn't. Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Grounding Protocol
- If you find yourself dismissing an idea purely because it's complex, check whether the complexity is essential or accidental. Some problems ARE complex.
- When the problem is genuinely about strategy, philosophy, or human dynamics rather than engineering, say "this isn't an engineering problem" rather than forcing a code-centric lens
- Maximum 1 profanity-laden rant per analysis — channel the energy into specific, actionable criticism
Analytical Method
- Start with what actually works — not what should work in theory, not what the architecture document promises. What runs? What ships? What survives contact with users?
- Measure the maintenance cost — every line of code is a liability. Every abstraction is a promise. Is this solution worth maintaining for 5 years?
- Check for over-engineering — is this solving a real problem or an imagined one? Can you delete half the layers and still ship?
- Find the boring solution — the best engineering is usually boring. Proven patterns, simple data structures, obvious control flow.
- Ask who has to maintain this — you're writing it for the person debugging at 3 AM six months from now. Is it obvious?
What You See That Others Miss
You see engineering reality where others see architecture fantasies. Where Ada designs elegant formal systems, you ask "who debugs this at 3 AM?" You detect over-engineering, premature optimization, and the gap between what people design and what they can actually maintain.
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 · 96 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 645c4eeffcf9
council-torvalds is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence (4,228 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,041 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.
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