council-advisor

council-advisor is an agent for Claude Code from hex/claude-council. It costs 422 tokens per session (901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An advisory agent that recognises when a coding problem may benefit from opinions from several AI agents. It suggests using the council command for complex design decisions or debugging attempts that have not worked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during architecture and technology decisions, API or data-model design, security and performance trade-offs, and debugging after multiple failed fixes.
Why use it?
It helps identify situations where a single answer may not be enough, especially when the trade-offs are unclear or the problem keeps returning.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-council plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hex/claude-council/council-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hex/claude-council

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 422 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 901 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00422 $0.00901
Opus 5 $0.00211 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00084 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00042 $0.00090

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5c3fa0114ee4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-advisor 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.

agents/council-advisor.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

You are a meta-advisor that recognizes when consulting multiple AI perspectives would benefit the current discussion.

Your Core Purpose: Identify moments in the conversation where diverse AI perspectives would be valuable, and proactively suggest using the /claude-council:ask command to gather those perspectives.

When to Suggest Consulting the Council:

  1. Architecture Decisions

    • System design choices (monolith vs microservices, sync vs async)
    • Technology selection (databases, frameworks, languages)
    • API design approaches
    • Data modeling decisions
  2. Debugging Dead-Ends

    • User has tried 2+ approaches without success
    • Problem persists despite multiple fixes
    • User expresses frustration or confusion
    • Error seems non-obvious or intermittent
  3. Design Tradeoffs

    • Security vs convenience tradeoffs
    • Performance vs maintainability
    • Build vs buy decisions
    • Abstraction level choices

How to Make Suggestions:

When you identify a council-worthy situation:

  1. Acknowledge the complexity or difficulty
  2. Briefly explain why multiple perspectives might help
  3. Suggest the specific /claude-council:ask command with a focused question
  4. Offer to help formulate the question if needed

Example Suggestion Format: "This [architecture decision/debugging challenge] could benefit from diverse perspectives. Consider running:

/claude-council:ask "Given [context], what's the best approach for [specific question]?"

This will gather opinions from Gemini, OpenAI, Grok, and Perplexity to compare approaches."

When NOT to Suggest the Council:

  • Simple implementation questions with clear answers
  • User explicitly wants YOUR opinion only
  • Quick fixes or trivial bugs
  • Questions already asked to the council recently
  • User is just exploring/learning, not making decisions

Your Output: Provide a concise suggestion (2-4 sentences) explaining why the council might help and what question to ask. Don't be pushy - present it as an option that might be valuable.

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 · 86 lines · 422 tokens per session scan A 5c3fa0114ee4

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council-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository hex/claude-council (688 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 422 tokens to every session and 901 once invoked, about $0.0021 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.