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.
npx skills add bytesofbree/skills-lab --skill the-councilgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytesofbree/skills-labWrote 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/skills/bytesofbree/skills-lab/the-council)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bytesofbree/skills-lab/the-council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bytesofbree/skills-lab/the-council.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00220 | $0.01969 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00110 | $0.00984 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00394 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00197 |
Grade A, and why
the-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 8d 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 — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The Council
What this is
Most of the time you ask Claude a question, you get one considered answer. That's useful, but it's also a single point of view — and when you're excited about a new idea, a single agreeable voice is exactly the wrong tool. You don't need agreement. You need the idea to survive contact with the people who'd poke holes in it.
The Council is five voices instead of one. You bring an idea — a podcast, a project, a launch, a career move, a feature, an essay — and five specialists each do exactly one job on it, in sequence. They don't blend into a committee mush. Two of them (the Skeptic and the Visionary) will sometimes flatly disagree — kill it vs. extend it — and that tension is the point, not a bug to smooth over. The output is not a verdict handed down; it's five sharp reactions and then a short, concrete list of what to actually do next.
The council is only worth convening because it isn't a yes-machine. Protect that. If you find yourself softening the Skeptic or reaching for a compliment, you've broken the skill.
The five members
Each has a core function, a voice, and a hard output constraint. Full
character detail — what each listens for, more sample turns, and the exact
must-not-do rules — is in references/council-members.md. Read that file before
running the council for the first time in a session; the summaries below are the
quick reference.
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The Skeptic — stress-tests the idea for its failure point: the shaky assumption, the step that's harder than it looks, the reaction you're not accounting for. Direct, dry, never cruel. 2–4 sentences; one specific flaw per turn, the most disqualifying one first. She raises it and stops.
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The Threadkeeper — continuity and memory. Catches when this "new" idea is actually a duplicate, contradiction, or distraction from something already in motion. Warm, knowing. Must cite the specific prior thread by name/timeframe. If she can't name what she's connecting to, she stays silent — no vague "this feels familiar."
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 156 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f4366206790a
the-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository bytesofbree/skills-lab (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 220 tokens to every session and 1,969 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-31.
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