council

council is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,270 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-review workflow that asks three independent AI workers to examine a question from skeptical, practical, and critical viewpoints, then combines their votes and records disagreement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture, security-sensitive designs, implementation plans, build-versus-buy choices, or other unclear decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing an approach because one analysis shaped everyone else's thinking. It gives you several perspectives on decisions with competing trade-offs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to review architecture, security-sensitive designs, implementation plans, build-versus-buy choices, or other unclear decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/baphuongna/pi-crew/council
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.

Any agent
npx skills add baphuongna/pi-crew --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,270 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00108 $0.01270
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f11f62e46f59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

skills/council/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council Pattern — Adversarial Multi-Perspective Decision Making

When to Use

  • Evaluating architecture decisions with significant tradeoffs
  • Reviewing security-sensitive design choices
  • Validating implementation plans before execution
  • Resolving ambiguity where multiple valid approaches exist
  • Deciding whether to build, buy, or extend

Prerequisites

  • A clearly formulated question or decision to evaluate
  • Sufficient context about the system for meaningful analysis

Operating Rules

  1. You MUST spawn exactly 3 subagents with isolated context (fresh, not forked)
  2. Each subagent receives ONLY the question — NO conversation history (anti-anchoring)
  3. You MUST NOT influence any subagent's analysis direction
  4. You MUST record all 3 votes before forming consensus
  5. You MUST include dissent in the final recommendation

Workflow

Step 1: Formulate the Question

Write a clear, neutral question that includes:

  • The decision to be made
  • Relevant constraints (performance, security, timeline)
  • Available options (if known)
  • What "success" looks like

DO NOT bias the question toward any particular answer.

Step 2: Spawn 3 Council Members

Launch 3 parallel subagents, one per seat, using the councillor agents:

  • Skeptic (finds flaws) → subagent_type='councillor-skeptic'
  • Pragmatist (weighs tradeoffs) → subagent_type='councillor-pragmatist'
  • Critic (stress-tests reasoning) → subagent_type='councillor-critic'

Each subagent's prompt is EXACTLY the question text from Step 1 — nothing else, no context preamble, no your-opinion-matters framing.

The seat perspective, output contract (Position/Confidence/Reasoning + seat-specific field), and anti-anchoring are baked into the agent files. The councillor agents carry inheritProjectContext: false, so isolation is STRUCTURAL (enforced at spawn), not merely instructed — do not wrap the question with your own framing or history.

All three seats return the shared vote block:

Position: PRO | CON | ABSTAIN
Confidence: 0.0-1.0
Reasoning: <analysis>
<Seat-specific field: Top 3 Risks | Alternatives Considered | Hidden Assumptions>

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 1mo ago Changed · -21 lines · +24 tokens per session f11f62e46f59
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 164 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A c5054fd32ae2

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,270 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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