dx-council

dx-council is a skill for Claude Code from easingthemes/dx-aem-flow. It costs 204 tokens per session (3,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process that sends a question, decision, or proposed work to three independent AI advisers, who critique it, examine its structure, and combine their views into a final judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test important decisions, plans, or artifacts that need independent criticism before you act.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing information, weak assumptions, and risks when there are several reasonable choices or a mistake would be costly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is SPEC_DIR=$(bash .ai/lib/dx-common.sh find-spec-dir $ARGUMENTS 2>/dev/null).

Part of the dx-core plugin — 49 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test important decisions, plans, or artifacts that need independent criticism before you act.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/easingthemes/dx-aem-flow
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/easingthemes/dx-aem-flow/dx-council

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 204 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,205 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00204 $0.03205
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01603
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00320

Measured 9d ago against content hash 45dbc5243344, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-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 9d 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.

plugins/dx-core/skills/dx-council/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run a question, decision, or artifact through a council of 3 independent advisors who analyze from fundamentally different angles, peer-review each other anonymously, then a chairman synthesizes the final verdict. Adapted from Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council methodology — dispatching to multiple thinking lenses instead of multiple models.

The council is for questions where being wrong is expensive. Do NOT council trivial questions with one right answer, creation tasks, or processing tasks. The council shines when there is genuine uncertainty, multiple viable options, and the cost of a bad call is high.

The Three Advisors

Each advisor is a thinking lens, not a persona. They create three natural tensions.

The Critic — Finds what is wrong, what is missing, what will fail, and what is confusing. Merges the contrarian (assumes a fatal flaw exists and hunts for it) with the outsider (sees what fresh eyes see, catches the curse of knowledge). The Critic saves you from bad deals by asking the questions you are avoiding AND flags things obvious to you but baffling to everyone else.

The Architect — Strips away assumptions and rebuilds the problem from the ground up, then looks for upside everyone else is missing. Merges first-principles thinking (are we solving the right problem?) with expansionist thinking (what could be bigger? what adjacent opportunity is hiding?). Sometimes the most valuable output is the Architect saying "you are asking the wrong question entirely" followed by "and here is the much bigger opportunity."

The Operator — Only cares about one thing: can this actually be done, and what is the fastest path? Ignores theory and big-picture thinking. Looks at every idea through the lens of "what do you do Monday morning?" If an idea sounds brilliant but has no clear first step, the Operator will say so. If there is a shortcut everyone is overcomplicating, the Operator will find it.

Why three: Critic vs Architect (tear down vs rebuild). Architect vs Operator (rethink everything vs just ship). Critic vs Operator (it is broken vs it is good enough). Three tensions, seven sub-agent calls total (3 advisors + 3 reviewers + 1 chairman) instead of eleven.

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 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. 9d ago First seen · 333 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A 45dbc5243344

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dx-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository easingthemes/dx-aem-flow (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 204 tokens to every session and 3,205 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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