council

council is a skill for Claude Code from blockmatic/basilic. It costs 27 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-exploration tool that gathers information about a chosen area, asks multiple task agents to investigate it independently, and combines their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deeper investigation of a technical area when one pass through the repository may miss useful context.
Why use it?
It helps explore a large or unfamiliar codebase from several angles before deciding how to proceed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it for deeper investigation of a technical area when one pass through the repository may miss useful context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blockmatic/basilic/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 blockmatic/basilic --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blockmatic/basilic

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00027 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash 096053fc2028, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/workflow/council/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Purpose and inputs

Gather architecture and keywords for the requested area, then spawn a small set of varied explorers. This playbook inspects. It does not commit, push, or open a PR. Implementation continues only when the user already asked for it.

Steps

  1. Inspect the area yourself first: owning packages, README/scripts, and current behavior. Record keywords and the architecture sketch the agents will use.
  2. Spawn explorers only as needed. Default to 3; the user may raise the count up to 6. Six is a hard maximum even if they request more — split larger investigations into separate bounded runs. Give each a distinct angle; include one out-of-the-box probe.
  3. Reconcile reports against the tree. Prefer file evidence over agent summaries. If the working tree changed underfoot, re-verify before using a finding.
  4. If the user asked only to investigate or plan, hand off. If they also asked to implement, follow build after the inspection — do not publish.

Verification

  • Findings cite paths that still exist.
  • No Git publish happened from this playbook.
  • Implementation, if any, was already authorized by the user.

Handoff

Return a short evidence list, contradictions, and the next named playbook (/plan-feature, /build, or stop). For plans, include References, 3–5 assumptions, and deferrals per plan-feature.

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. yesterday Changed · +14 lines · -22 tokens per session 096053fc2028
  2. 2d ago Changed 85435b2a4360
  3. 4d ago First seen · 13 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 1bbc44ac10fc

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository blockmatic/basilic (89 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 350 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 2026-09-03.

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