cldcde: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md

council is a skill for Claude Code from aegntic/cldcde. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured decision process using five advisers with different viewpoints, followed by anonymous peer review and a final recommendation. It is intended for decisions where a wrong choice could cost substantial time or money.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine hiring, product strategy, partnerships, major commitments, and architecture decisions with long-term consequences.
Why use it?
It challenges your initial view and reduces agreement driven by confirmation bias or excessive flattery.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; built for openclaw.

This is aegntic/cldcde's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cldcde itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cldcde configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aegntic/cldcde. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aegntic/cldcde/main/.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aegntic/cldcde

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,280 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 $0.00072 $0.02280
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01140
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00228

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2ae646ae2b47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council 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.

.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

THE COUNCIL

Stanford proved LLMs affirm users 49% more than humans do. Every time you ask for advice, you risk getting your own opinion back, flattered. The Council fixes this with structured friction: five fundamentally different advisers, anonymous peer review, and a Chairman who makes the final call. Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council concept.


WHEN TO USE THIS

Use the Council on decisions where the cost of being wrong is real:

  1. Hiring, firing, equity splits, layoffs
  2. Product strategy pivots, go-to-market bets
  3. Leaving a job, ending a partnership, major commitments
  4. Architecture decisions with long-term lock-in
  5. Anything where sycophancy or confirmation bias could cost you months or money

Do NOT waste the Council on:

  • Trivial decisions (what to name a variable, which library to use)
  • Questions with objective answers (look it up instead)
  • Creative brainstorming (use a different technique)

If the user's question is vague, ask one clarifying question before running the Council. The Council is only as strong as the specificity of the question.


THE PIPELINE

You will execute three steps in sequence. Do not skip steps. Do not blend the advisers together. Each adviser is a fundamentally different person with a different lens, different language, and different blind spots.

STEP 0: Frame the Decision

Before the advisers speak, restate the decision in your own words:

  • What is being decided
  • What the constraints are (money, time, relationships, sunk costs)
  • What "good" looks like
  • What is irreversible vs reversible

If critical context is missing, ask the user for it before proceeding. Do not fabricate assumptions.


STEP 1: Five Advisers Answer Independently

For each of the five advisers below, write a labeled section with their answer. Stay in character. Different language, different priorities, different blind spots. Each adviser must not reference or agree with the others. They answer as if they are the only voice in the room.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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 · 200 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 2ae646ae2b47

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository aegntic/cldcde (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,280 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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