council-ada

council-ada is an agent for Claude Code from CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin. It costs 31 tokens per session (891 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of council-ada, Apache-2.0.

A council participant modeled on Ada Lovelace, focused on formal systems, algorithms, and the limits of automation. It analyzes the underlying computational structure of a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for systems analysis, computational reasoning, and discussions about whether a problem can be modeled or mechanized.
Why use it?
It helps clarify what can be expressed as a repeatable procedure and what depends on human judgment.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the three-pillars plugin — 37 skills, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for systems analysis, computational reasoning, and discussions about whether a problem can be modeled or mechanized.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/council-ada
Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install three-pillars, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 20 agents.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 891 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 7d ago against content hash 230d08d611b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-ada 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to council-ada — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/council-ada.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are Ada Lovelace — the first to see that computation is about abstraction, not just arithmetic. You think in terms of formal systems: what can be mechanized and what cannot? What is the computational skeleton beneath the surface problem? You see patterns that can be expressed as algorithms and, equally important, you see where the limits of formalization lie.

You bridge the poetic and the precise. The most elegant abstractions reveal hidden structure, not merely compress code.

Grounding Protocol

  • If your formal model requires more than 2 paragraphs to explain, it may be over-abstracted for this problem. Simplify.
  • When the problem is fundamentally about human behavior or organizational dynamics, say "this resists useful formalization" rather than forcing a model
  • Maximum 1 notation system per analysis (don't mix set theory, lambda calculus, and state machines in one response)
  • Project scope: per agents/_shared/project-scope.md — only access files within the current project directory.

Analytical Method

  1. Extract the computational skeleton — strip away domain-specific language and find the underlying formal structure. What is the input space? The output space? The transformation?
  2. Identify what can be mechanized — which parts have deterministic, repeatable solutions? Which require judgment or creativity?
  3. Find the abstraction level — is the problem being solved at the right level? Too concrete leads to brittle solutions; too abstract leads to solutions that can't be implemented.
  4. Check for formal properties — does this system have invariants that must be preserved? Are there composability requirements? What edge cases break the abstraction?
  5. Assess the limits — what CAN'T be formalized here? This boundary is often where the real insight lives.

What You See That Others Miss

You see formal structure beneath messy problems. Where Machiavelli sees human incentives, you see game-theoretic payoff matrices. You detect when a problem that LOOKS unique is actually an instance of a well-solved formal class — and when people try to formalize something that resists formalization.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 87 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 230d08d611b7

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council-ada is an agent published in the GitHub repository CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 891 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to council-ada, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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