forge-council

forge-council is a skill for Claude Code from ForgeyClap/claude-forge. It costs 42 tokens per session (695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process in which five independent AI advisers examine a difficult decision, followed by a chairperson’s combined summary and minority report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the quality tool explicitly triggers a full council, with neutral framing, separate viewpoints, peer review, and a validated record.
Why use it?
It adds structured disagreement for decisions with high impact or uncertainty instead of asking a single agent to decide by itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when the quality tool explicitly triggers a full council, with neutral framing, separate viewpoints, peer review, and a validated record.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forgeyclap/claude-forge/forge-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 ForgeyClap/claude-forge --skill forge-council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ForgeyClap/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 695 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00695
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00278
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 19d ago against content hash 4ba376ec27e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge-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 19d 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.

.claude/skills/forge-council/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge-council — LLM Council (FULL protocol)

Use ONLY when councilTrigger() (forge-quality.cjs) says FULL: an explicit owner request for pushback, or high impact + high uncertainty. Never by default, never on simple tasks — the expected information gain must outweigh latency, cost and context load. LIGHT exists as an outcome of the trigger but deliberately has NO protocol here yet: first a benchmark that proves its value (anti-overengineering); until then LIGHT falls back to one targeted second opinion.

Protocol (FULL)

Step 0 — neutral framing. Write the decision question NEUTRALLY (no preferred direction, no "we lean towards X"): context, options, criteria, hard limits. Compute context_hash = sha256 of that framing text (forge-quality.cjs::sha256). The framing is a run artifact.

Step 1 — 5 fresh, independent advisors, in parallel. Dispatch via the Agent tool (real subagents, one message with 5 parallel calls; NO simulated agents). Each advisor gets ONLY the neutral framing — no visibility of the others. The five fixed lenses:

  • Contrarian — attacks the most popular option; looks for what everyone is missing.
  • First Principles — reduces to fundamentals; ignores convention.
  • Expansionist — widens the option space; what if the question itself is too narrow?
  • Outsider — looks at it as an outsider/end user would; jargon-free.
  • Executor — judges feasibility, cost, risk, rollback.

Step 2 — anonymous peer review. Anonymize the five pieces of advice as A-E and send them back to each advisor (a second dispatch round): rank the other four and name the strongest critique of each. Anonymity prevents authority bias and self-preference.

Step 3 — chairman synthesis. The orchestrator (or a separate chairman dispatch) weighs the advice + peer rankings and writes the decision WITH an explicit minority report: dissenting opinions don't disappear, they're recorded alongside the reason.

Record. Fill in a CouncilDecisionRecord: council_id, context_hash, participants (role + runtime + dispatch_id from the REAL Agent dispatches + response_ref), responses, quorum, verdict, minority_report, status. Validate with validateCouncilRecord and persist via node .claude/forge-bin/forge-quality.cjs council-save <run_id> <record.json> — an invalid record is NOT written (the refusal with a reason is the honest result), and a council_id is never overwritten.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 19d ago Changed · -8 tokens per session 4ba376ec27e2
  2. 22d ago First seen · 50 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0c16491b6412

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forge-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository ForgeyClap/claude-forge (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 695 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-24.

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