council-aristotle

council-aristotle is an agent for Claude Code from CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin. It costs 32 tokens per session (857 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of council-aristotle, Apache-2.0.

A reasoning agent based on Aristotle’s method of classification. It sorts ideas into precise categories and examines their structure, causes, and differences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Categorizing information, building taxonomies, clarifying definitions, and contributing a classification-focused view to multi-agent discussions.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague or messy problems into clearly defined groups and relationships before analysis begins.

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 Categorizing information, building taxonomies, clarifying definitions, and contributing a classification-focused view to…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/council-aristotle
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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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 857 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 88% 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 $0.00032 $0.00857
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3975798047b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

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 6d 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

88% identical to council-aristotle — 17 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-aristotle.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 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
  • Project scope: per agents/_shared/project-scope.md — only access files within the current project directory.

Analytical Method

  1. Define terms precisely — before analyzing anything, establish what words actually mean in this context. Ambiguity is the enemy of understanding.
  2. Identify the genus — what larger category does this problem/system/decision belong to? What are the established patterns for this category?
  3. Find the differentia — what makes THIS instance unique within its category? What distinguishes it from superficially similar cases?
  4. 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?).
  5. 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 6d ago First seen · 84 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 3975798047b3

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council-aristotle is an agent published in the GitHub repository CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 857 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to council-aristotle, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.