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.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to 0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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 | $0.00626 | $0.00626 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00313 | $0.00313 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00063 | $0.00063 |
Grade A, and why
council-of-high-intelligence CLAUDE.md 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Council of High Intelligence
Architecture
SKILL.md— coordinator protocol with execution sequence, modes, and verdict templates (canonical — feature changes land here first, then get mirrored)SKILL.codex.md— Codex-specific council coordinator protocol (compressed mirror of SKILL.md)SKILL.gemini.md— Gemini CLI-specific council coordinator protocol (compressed mirror of SKILL.md)SKILL.opencode.md— opencode-specific council coordinator protocol (mirror of SKILL.md)agents/council-*.md— 18 member personas with YAML frontmatterinstall.sh— installs to~/.claude/, optionally~/.codex/skills/council/,~/.gemini/extensions/council-of-high-intelligence/, and~/.config/opencode/configs/— provider/model routing templatesdemos/— example prompts and scoring rubricscripts/— validation checklist
Conventions
Agent files
- Section order: Identity → Grounding Protocol → Analytical Method → What You See → What You Miss → When Deliberating → Output Format (Council Round 2) → Output Format (Standalone)
- Grounding Protocol appears immediately after Identity (LLMs weight earlier instructions more heavily)
- "What You See" and "What You Miss" sections: ≤3 sentences each
- Every agent gets a Council Round 2 output format with structured headers (Disagree, Strengthened by, Position Update, Evidence Label)
SKILL.md
- Coordinator instructions are an execution sequence with numbered STEPs and
[CHECKPOINT]/[VERIFY]markers - Three modes: full (3-round), quick (2-round), duo (dialectic)
- Reference tables (triads, profiles, polarity pairs) are above the execution sequence, not mixed in
Testing
- Always run
./scripts/council-simulation-checklist.shafter changes - Always run
./install.sh --dry-runto verify installation - When changing Codex installation, also run
./install.sh --dry-run --codex - When changing Gemini installation, also run
./install.sh --dry-run --gemini - When changing opencode installation, also run
./install.sh --dry-run --opencode - When changing protocol features in
SKILL.md, mirror them inSKILL.codex.md,SKILL.gemini.md, andSKILL.opencode.md(or document why a host is exempt) — the checklist verifies parity - Test at least one mode (full/quick/duo) after protocol 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 41 lines · 626 tokens per session scan A ead6bbf72867
council-of-high-intelligence CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence (4,228 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 626 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 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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