llm-council

llm-council is a skill for Claude Code from dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins. It costs 81 tokens per session (5,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system that asks several open-source language models the same question, has them rank one another's answers, and uses a final model to combine the results. It runs these model calls through Fireworks AI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Getting several AI perspectives, comparing responses, and producing a consensus-style answer.
Why use it?
It provides multiple independent answers and a comparison step before producing a final response. It requires choosing the participating models and the final chairman model.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the llm-council plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Getting several AI perspectives, comparing responses, and producing a consensus-style answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins/llm-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 dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins --skill llm-council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install llm-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,103 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 8 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 33
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 130
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 234
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 366
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 135
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 149
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 284
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 423
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00081 $0.05103
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02551
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00510

Measured 11d ago against content hash 19d875144c2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

llm-council scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.post(
plugins/llm-council/skills/llm-council/SKILL.md · 572 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 572 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LLM Council (Fireworks AI)

This skill implements Karpathy's LLM Council concept where multiple open-weight LLMs deliberate on a query, powered entirely by Fireworks AI:

  1. Phase 1: All models respond to the query independently (parallel)
  2. Phase 2: Models rank each other's anonymized responses
  3. Phase 3: A Chairman LLM synthesizes the final answer

All inference runs through Fireworks AI using open-weight models. The speed and pricing of Fireworks makes it practical to run multi-model deliberation that would be slow or expensive on other providers.

CRITICAL RULES

  1. ALWAYS use AskUserQuestion to let the user select council models (multiselect) and the Chairman model
  2. ALWAYS save raw responses to files - never summarize or truncate API outputs
  3. ALWAYS show full transparency - display all individual responses, all rankings, AND the final synthesis
  4. NEVER skip the ranking phase - it is essential to the council deliberation process
  5. Read from files for display - ensures content is shown unmodified
  6. ALWAYS display the final output to the user after Phase 3 completes

Pre-flight Check

Before running any phase, verify the Fireworks API key is set:

if [ -z "$FIREWORKS_API_KEY" ]; then
  echo "ERROR: FIREWORKS_API_KEY is not set."
  echo "Create a Fireworks AI account at: https://fireworks.ai/"
  echo "Then export it in your shell profile (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):"
  echo '  export FIREWORKS_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"'
  exit 1
fi
echo "FIREWORKS_API_KEY is set."

Available Models

Present these options to the user via AskUserQuestion (multiselect):

Model Fireworks ID Provider
GLM 5 accounts/fireworks/models/glm-5 Z.ai
DeepSeek V3.1 accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v3p1 DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.2 accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v3p2 DeepSeek
MiniMax M2.1 accounts/fireworks/models/minimax-m2p1 MiniMax
Kimi K2.5 accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p5 Moonshot
Qwen3 235B accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-235b-a22b Alibaba
Llama 4 Maverick accounts/fireworks/models/llama4-maverick-instruct-basic Meta

Read the full file on GitHub · 572 lines

Files

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.

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 · 572 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 19d875144c2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

llm-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins (613 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 5,103 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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