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 chrisblattman/claudeblattman --skill councilgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattmanWrote 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/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/council)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/council/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/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/council.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 | $0.00047 | $0.01696 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00678 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00339 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00170 |
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 4d 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 — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Council
Read references/host.md, references/policy.json, and references/synthesis.md next to this skill. These files and this workflow are generated from one source for both apps. Do not invoke a separate prompt formatter or the Ask Agents conversational workflow.
Select the run
The starter default, explicitly chosen for beginners, is three local members: skeptic, pre-mortem, and completeness checker. Read their complete definitions in references/personas/. Label this a local custom council, not Chris's provider-balanced Light mode. Use three fresh workers in the current app; the orchestrating conversation is not a council member.
Honor an explicit provider/count/lens request; never reinterpret it as the default. The archive helper supports the three default local members, plus Chief of Staff as an optional fourth member only when explicitly requested. Never add or substitute Chief of Staff automatically, even for decisions. Pass --chief-of-staff to plan when the user asks to include it. If the requested custom panel differs, explain that limitation and offer a supported run only with the user's agreement; do not silently add services, change counts, or call it balanced. Clarify only material ambiguity. Do not require an existing draft: members can independently develop an answer or propose an approach against the same brief.
Chris's explicit Light means one Claude, one Codex, and one Gemini member, followed by fresh synthesis. Full means two per provider, then a fresh adversary, then fresh synthesis. Different providers can run concurrently; two Full members from one provider run sequentially. These counts, lenses, and chair rules are preserved in references/policy.json.
Current runtime boundary: this starter ships the local native-worker route. Chris's audited balanced runtime (including Gemini through Antigravity, model-pinned execution, and bound chair receipts) has not been ported into this starter kit. If Light/Full is requested, explain this specific missing dependency before launching anything. Offer the supported local council or an explicitly labeled custom outside opinion only if the user chooses it. Do not feed a starter manifest into Chris's incompatible resolver/runner, use Gemini CLI as its replacement, or claim that installing Ask Agents enables audited Light/Full. See references/runtime-status.md.
What ships with it
10 files 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.
- references/host.md 1.3 KB
- references/package.json 321 B
- references/personas/chief-of-staff.md 2.6 KB
- references/personas/completeness-checker.md 1.9 KB
- references/personas/pre-mortem.md 1.9 KB
- references/personas/skeptic.md 1.7 KB
- references/policy.json 3.7 KB
- references/runtime-status.md 1.4 KB
- references/synthesis.md 1.3 KB
- scripts/council.py 18 KB runs code
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.
- 4d ago Changed · -62 lines · -8 tokens per session c18a916461aa
- 1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 818ec58f8e9c
council is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisblattman/claudeblattman (470 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,696 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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