llm-council

A planning workflow that asks several configured AI agents to create plans and can use a separate judging agent to choose or assess them. It saves the resulting plans and run records as Markdown files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan software or other tasks with several agents, configure the participating planners and judge, and keep an auditable record of the results.
Why use it?
It provides multiple independent plans and a review step instead of relying on one planning response.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/graycodeai/starling/llm-council
Any agent
npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill llm-council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,109 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00013 $0.01109
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00111

Measured 2d ago against content hash d9edc75d8c89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

llm-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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to llm-council — 9 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

categories/ai-ml/llm-council/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LLM Council Skill

Quick start

  • Always check for an existing agents config file first ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/llm-council/agents.json or ~/.config/llm-council/agents.json). If none exists, tell the user to run ./setup.sh to configure or update agents.
  • The orchestrator must always ask thorough intake questions first, then generates prompts so planners do not ask questions.
    • Even if the initial prompt is strong, ask at least a few clarifying questions about ambiguities, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Tell the user that answering intake questions is optional, but more detail improves the quality of the final plan.
  • Use python3 scripts/llm_council.py run --spec /path/to/spec.json to run the council.
  • Plans are produced as Markdown files for auditability.
  • Run artifacts are saved under ./llm-council/runs/<timestamp> relative to the current working directory.
  • Configure defaults interactively with python3 scripts/llm_council.py configure (writes $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/llm-council/agents.json or ~/.config/llm-council/agents.json).

Workflow

  1. Load the task spec, and explore the codebase you are in to get a strong sense of the product.
  2. Always ask thorough intake questions to build a clear task brief. Clarify any ambiguities, constraints, and success criteria. Remind the user that answers are optional but improve plan quality.
  3. Build planner prompts (Markdown template) and launch the configured planner agents in parallel background shells.
  4. Collect outputs, validate Markdown structure, and retry up to 2 times on failure. If any agents fails, yield and alert the user to fix the issue.
  5. Anonymize plan contents and randomize order before judging.
  6. Run the judge with the rubric and Markdown template, then save judge.md and final-plan.md.
  7. Session management: DO NOT yield/finish the response until a full 30-minute timer has completed and judge + final-plan.md are confirmed saved; keep the session open during that interval to avoid closing the interface. If you yield while the Council is running, the session will be terminated and you will FAIL to complete the task. The user will escape out when they are ready or after the 30 minutes have elapsed.
    • Note on Session Management: Plans can take quite some time to build, do not panic if it seems stuck. You do not need to poll every few seconds. Once every 20-30 seconds is sufficient. Continue to allow them as much time as needed up to the 30-minute mark.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 2d ago First seen · 66 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A d9edc75d8c89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

llm-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,109 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to llm-council, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.