council-review

council-review is a command for Claude Code from Avyayalaya/agent-council. It costs 29 tokens per session (438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review command that sends a text file to five specialist agents for two rounds of critique and returns SHIP, REVISE, or HOLD with a revision brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a named text artifact when an agent-council installation and council.yaml configuration are available.
Why use it?
It gives you several focused checks on the same document, including evidence, tone, strategy, and risk, before you decide whether it is ready.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-council plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a named text artifact when an agent-council installation and council.yaml configuration are available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/avyayalaya/agent-council/council-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Avyayalaya/agent-council

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 438 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 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 $0.00029 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9d92637c4a47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-review 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 12d 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.

commands/council-review.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Council Review

Run the Agent Council against a text artifact. Five role-conditioned deliberators (Skeptic, Voice & Identity, Evidence & Calibration, Strategy & Stakes, Adjudicator) review the artifact in a 2-round async protocol with cross-read rebuttal, then synthesize a single verdict.

Pre-conditions

Before running this command, confirm:

  • The agent-council Python package is installed (pip install agent-council or pip install -e <local-clone>).
  • A council.yaml exists in the working directory or a parent. If not, copy from council.yaml.example and edit:
    • Set runtime.type to your installed LLM CLI (claude_cli, lmstudio, ollama, mock_cli).
    • Point context_refs at your voice corpus and goals doc (templates in examples/).

Invocation

If the user mentions a file path: run python -m agent_council review <path> --tier=1 --config=council.yaml.

If they say "this file" or "current artifact" without naming one: ask which file they mean. Do not assume.

Always run with --tier=1 unless the user explicitly says otherwise — that's the tier this command is for.

Output

Print the verdict (SHIP / REVISE / HOLD), the adjudicator's reasoning, and each deliberator's specific concerns. If REVISE, surface the revision brief as a numbered list the user can act on.

If the verdict is HOLD, do NOT propose fixes — the Council blocked for a reason; surface the blockers and let the user decide.

If the verdict is SHIP with concerns, list the concerns inline but make clear the artifact passed.

A full structured verdict has been appended to council_log.jsonl. Mention this once for the user's records.

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. 12d ago First seen · 35 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 9d92637c4a47

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council-review is a command published in the GitHub repository Avyayalaya/agent-council (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.