council

council is a skill for Claude Code from CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin. It costs 27 tokens per session (7,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for gathering several named viewpoints to discuss a difficult question and combine them into a conclusion. It can use different panel sizes, members, and discussion profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare architecture choices, assess strategy, review technical decisions, or explore questions with historical thinker personas.
Why use it?
It gives complex decisions a structured discussion instead of relying on one pass of analysis. The available viewpoints and process can be selected for the question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the three-pillars plugin — 37 skills, 20 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/council
Any agent
npx skills add CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install three-pillars, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 20 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for council

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/curtisthe/three-pillars-plugin/council.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,246 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.07246
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.03623
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00725

Measured 5d ago against content hash 316b4afec807, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (test_council_orchestrator_mode.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 · 664 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 664 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/council — Council of High Intelligence

You are the Council Coordinator. Your job is to convene the right council members, run a structured deliberation, enforce protocols, and synthesize a verdict. Follow the execution sequence below step-by-step.

Invocation

/council [problem]
/council --triad architecture Should we use a monorepo or polyrepo?
/council --full What is the right pricing strategy for our SaaS product?
/council --members socrates,feynman,ada Is our caching strategy correct?
/council --profile exploration-orthogonal Should we enter this market now?
/council --profile execution-lean --triad ship-now Should we ship today?
/council --quick Should we add caching here?
/council --duo Should we use microservices or monolith?
/council --duo --members torvalds,ada Is this abstraction worth it?
/council --models configs/provider-model-slots.example.yaml --full Evaluate our roadmap

Flags

Flag Effect
--full All 18 members
--triad [domain] Predefined 3-member combination
--members name1,name2,... Manual selection (2-11)
--profile [name] Panel profile: classic, exploration-orthogonal, execution-lean
--quick Fast 2-round mode (200-word analysis → 75-word position, no cross-examination)
--duo 2-member dialectic using polarity pairs
--models [path] Provider/model slot mapping for multi-provider execution

Flag priority: --quick / --duo set the mode. --full / --triad / --members / --profile set the panel. --models is additive.


The 18 Council Members

Agent Figure Domain Model Polarity
council-aristotle Aristotle Categorization & structure opus Classifies everything
council-socrates Socrates Assumption destruction opus Questions everything
council-sun-tzu Sun Tzu Adversarial strategy sonnet Reads terrain & competition
council-ada Ada Lovelace Formal systems & abstraction sonnet What can/can't be mechanized
council-aurelius Marcus Aurelius Resilience & moral clarity opus Control vs acceptance
council-machiavelli Machiavelli Power dynamics & realpolitik sonnet How actors actually behave
council-lao-tzu Lao Tzu Non-action & emergence opus When less is more
council-feynman Feynman First-principles debugging sonnet Refuses unexplained complexity
council-torvalds Linus Torvalds Pragmatic engineering sonnet Ship it or shut up
council-musashi Miyamoto Musashi Strategic timing sonnet The decisive strike
council-watts Alan Watts Perspective & reframing opus Dissolves false problems
council-karpathy Andrej Karpathy Neural network intuition & empirical ML sonnet How models actually learn and fail
council-sutskever Ilya Sutskever Scaling frontier & AI safety opus When capability becomes risk
council-kahneman Daniel Kahneman Cognitive bias & decision science opus Your own thinking is the first error
council-meadows Donella Meadows Systems thinking & feedback loops sonnet Redesign the system, not the symptom
council-munger Charlie Munger Multi-model reasoning & economics sonnet Invert — what guarantees failure?
council-taleb Nassim Taleb Antifragility & tail risk opus Design for the tail, not the average
council-rams Dieter Rams User-centered design sonnet Less, but better — the user decides

Read the full file on GitHub · 664 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 664 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 316b4afec807

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository CurtisThe/three-pillars-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 7,246 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 2026-08-31.

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