Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to amiable-dev/llm-council. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amiable-dev/llm-council/master/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amiable-dev/llm-councilWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/amiable-dev/llm-council/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/amiable-dev/llm-council/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/amiable-dev/llm-council/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/amiable-dev/llm-council/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/amiable-dev/llm-council/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.13709 | $0.13709 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.05484 | $0.05484 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.02742 | $0.02742 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01371 | $0.01371 |
Grade A, and why
llm-council 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 1mo 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 — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md — Technical Notes for LLM Council
Durable architecture, design rationale, and gotchas for future sessions. This file is a map and a rationale, not an API reference — for function signatures, read the source (they go stale here). When you change behavior that contradicts a note below, update the note.
Project Overview
LLM Council is a 3-stage deliberation system where multiple LLMs collaboratively answer a question. The core innovation: anonymized peer review in Stage 2 (models rank "Response A/B/C…", not each other by name) so they can't play favorites.
It is a single Python package (src/llm_council/) exposing a CLI, an HTTP/REST server, and an MCP server. There is no separate frontend or backend/ directory — older docs referencing backend.main, frontend/src/, main.py, or storage.py describe a retired layout.
Running & Developing
- Install / setup:
make setup(deps +.env), ormake install(deps only). - Run the HTTP API:
llm-council serve [--host H] [--port 8000](default port 8000). Entry point isllm_council.cli:main; the FastAPI app lives insrc/llm_council/http_server.py. - Other CLI subcommands:
setup-key(store API key in keychain, ADR-013),bias-report(cross-session bias analysis, ADR-018),install-skills,gate,ignore(inspect the verify file-selection trust boundary —--print-defaults/--explain/--init, ADR-053). - Quality gates:
make test/make test-fast/make test-cov,make lint(ruff),make typecheck(mypy),make check(lint+typecheck),make fix. ~120 test files intests/. tests/test_openrouter.pyverifies OpenRouter connectivity and that a model identifier resolves before you add it to the council.- Relative imports: modules import siblings as
from .unified_config import …. Keep imports relative within the package. - ADRs live in
docs/adr/. Most subsystems below cite the ADR that introduced them — read it for design context. - Every source file stays reviewable (#720). Council verify caps input at 50K chars; a bigger file can't be reviewed, and a diff passed as evidence is not accepted as review.
tests/test_issue720_file_size_ratchet.pyholds everysrc/file to 40K (headroom for a test file + evidence in one review); the files already over it are grandfathered inCEILINGSat their size, which may only be lowered. When a change would push a file over, split it in the same PR (patch where names are CONSUMED — see the council.py note), and delete itsCEILINGSentry once it's under. - Definition of Done includes the published docs site (
docs/+mkdocs.ymlnav), not just README/CLAUDE.md/CHANGELOG — the site froze at ADR-038 when it was left out of epic DoDs.tests/test_docs_drift.pyenforces the mechanical parts (env reference, ADR nav, guide snippets).
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +360 tokens per session 5bc459600fe7
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +1,344 tokens per session 4adbbd27d453
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +1,039 tokens per session ad23fec8bea1
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +236 tokens per session 8fde92977878
- 2mo ago First seen · 204 lines · 10,730 tokens per session scan A 85fef0ce2f8a
llm-council CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amiable-dev/llm-council (47 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13,709 tokens to every session, about $0.0548 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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