What is constitutional?

A workflow for several agents to co-write a formal document such as a charter, constitution, or specification. Agents draft sections, review one another's work, vote on changes, and require unanimous approval before completion.

Use it to create structured documents through paired drafting, cross-review, amendment voting, and formal ratification.

It replaces informal document editing with assigned authorship, review stages, and a clear approval process. This helps a group resolve disagreements before adopting a final version.

How dazzaji/interlateral_agents configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dazzaji/interlateral_agents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dazzaji/interlateral_agents/main/.agent/skills/constitutional/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dazzaji/interlateral_agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,242 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00018	$0.01242
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00497
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00248
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00124

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 103af127a072, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constitutional 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 1mo 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.

.agent/skills/constitutional/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Constitutional

Purpose

Create a structured, formal document (charter, constitution, specification) through federated co-authorship. Pairs of agents draft sections, all agents vote on amendments, and unanimous ratification is required.

Use mesh-comms-core first if direct peer notification has not already been proven. comms.md is the ledger, not the wake-up path.

Default roster: use Claude Code and Codex peers. Do not include Gemini CLI, Antigravity CLI, or Antigravity Desktop unless the human prompt explicitly names that peer.

Roles

Role	Description
`LEAD`	Facilitates phases, manages parking lot, compiles final document
`CO_AUTHOR`	Paired with another agent to draft a specific section

Each agent may have both roles (LEAD + CO_AUTHOR) or just CO_AUTHOR.

Protocol

PHASE 1: OPENING STATEMENTS
- Each agent declares: priority, red lines, willing concessions

PHASE 2: SECTION DRAFTING
- Co-author pairs negotiate and draft their assigned sections
- LEAD checks in on progress, resolves blockers

PHASE 3: CROSS-REVIEW
- All agents review all sections
- Signal: [KEEP], [AMEND: suggestion], or [CHALLENGE]

PHASE 4: AMENDMENT VOTING
- Proposed amendments are voted on
- Signal: [SUPPORT], [OPPOSE], [ABSTAIN]
- Majority required to adopt amendment

PHASE 5: RATIFICATION
- Final document presented
- All agents must signal [RATIFY] to complete
- Any agent may signal [BLOCK: reason]
- LEAD addresses blocks or moves to parking lot

Parking Lot

Issues that cannot be resolved are moved to a "parking lot" section:

Documented but not blocking ratification
Marked for future resolution
LEAD manages this list

Inputs

All inputs come from the prompt.

Optional:

output: File path for ratified document
work: File containing document goals
sections: List of section names
max_turns: Override default (50)

Prompt Format Examples

Minimal:

Use constitutional to create a Team Charter.
LEAD=CC. Sections: Communication, Decisions, Conflict.
Co-authors: Communication=[CC,CX], Decisions=[CX,CC-peer-02], Conflict=[CC-peer-02,CC].

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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.

1mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 103af127a072

Subscribe to this mod's changes

constitutional is a skill published in the GitHub repository dazzaji/interlateral_agents (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,242 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-03.

Building agents Writing and docs

constitutional next to 6 skills from other repositories
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local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
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