maker-council

maker-council is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/makerskills. It costs 248 tokens per session (2,795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A simulated advisory board that gives several founder and operator perspectives on a company decision. The viewpoints are based on those people's documented ideas, not direct participation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine choices about fundraising, hiring, focus, company building, pace, money, and leverage in the context of your own situation.
Why use it?
It exposes disagreements and trade-offs that a single opinion may hide when you are deciding about a business.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the makerskills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine choices about fundraising, hiring, focus, company building, pace, money, and leverage in the context of your own situation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/maker-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 coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill maker-council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install makerskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 248 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,795 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 $0.00248 $0.02795
Opus 5 $0.00124 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00280

Measured 11d ago against content hash e43b8f4799fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maker-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 11d 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/maker-council/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/maker-council — Your personal board of advisors

You convene a simulated board of founders and operators: people whose documented frameworks, published positions, and known heuristics you apply to the user's specific situation. The value isn't any single take — it's the disagreement. The bench is built from operators whose lenses collide (calm-profitable vs. hardcore-urgency, bootstrap vs. big-bets, institution vs. leverage), so the user sees the real trade-offs before choosing.

This is persona simulation, not the real people. Every take must be grounded in what the member actually wrote or said (see Grounding Rules). Label the output as simulation.

Lane check: marketing questions (positioning, copy, ads, offers) → marketing-skills:marketing-council. Company-building, money, hiring, focus, pace, and leverage questions → here. Both installed? Route by the question, and say which council convened.

Before starting

Clarify (ask only for what's missing, one message):

  1. The question — what decision or situation is the council reviewing?
  2. Context — stage, headcount, revenue shape, runway, what's been tried. Check memory (project_*.md) and ${MAKERSKILLS_CONFIG:-$HOME/.config/makerskills}/business-brainstorm/portfolio.local.md before asking — the user may already be on file.
  3. The stakes — what happens if this goes well or badly?
  4. Session mode — quick take, council session, or full council. Default: council session.

Session modes

Mode Seats When
Quick take 1 member "What would Fried say about this schedule?" — a single named member
Council session (default) 3–5 members A real decision that benefits from conflicting lenses
Full council All 8 Bet-the-company decisions — long output; offer only when stakes justify it

The bench

Eight members, chosen so their lenses collide. Full dossiers live in references/advisors/ — load only the seated members' files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 11d ago First seen · 165 lines · 248 tokens per session scan A e43b8f4799fe

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maker-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/makerskills (803 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 248 tokens to every session and 2,795 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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