council

A command that asks several specialized software agents to independently examine an important technical decision and then combines their views.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to debate architecture choices, assess feature scope, plan large refactors, evaluate new technologies, or decide which technical debt to address.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making an architecture, feature-scope, or technical-debt decision from only one perspective.

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/guild-agents/guild/council
Any agent
npx skills add Guild-Agents/guild --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Guild-Agents/guild

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 2,261 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.02261
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01130
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00226

Measured 2d ago against content hash 90d8f25a4234, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council

Convenes a council of specialized agents to debate an important decision. Each agent contributes their independent perspective and the result is a synthesis of the debate.

Agents are invoked IN PARALLEL using the Task tool to obtain independent perspectives without bias.

When to use

  • Before making an important architectural decision
  • To evaluate the scope of a feature with multiple perspectives
  • To decide whether to address technical debt and how to prioritize it
  • When you need multiple viewpoints on a complex problem

Usage

/council [question or decision to debate]

Optionally you can specify the type: /council architecture [question]

Council Types

1. Council Architecture

Participants: Tech Lead + Advisor + Developer When it applies: Decisions about architecture, patterns, large refactors, new technologies

Invokes all 3 agents IN PARALLEL using Task tool:

  • Task 1: Reads .claude/agents/tech-lead.md — architecture and technical coherence perspective
  • Task 2: Reads .claude/agents/advisor.md — feasibility and business risk perspective
  • Task 3: Reads .claude/agents/developer.md — implementability and pragmatism perspective

2. Council Feature-Scope

Participants: Advisor + Developer + Tech Lead When it applies: Defining feature scope, prioritizing functionality, evaluating product proposals

Invokes all 3 agents IN PARALLEL using Task tool:

  • Task 1: Reads .claude/agents/advisor.md — domain and strategic vision perspective
  • Task 2: Reads .claude/agents/developer.md — implementability and pragmatism perspective
  • Task 3: Reads .claude/agents/tech-lead.md — technical feasibility and effort perspective

3. Council Tech-Debt

Participants: Tech Lead + Developer + Code Reviewer When it applies: Deciding whether to address technical debt, planning refactors, evaluating codebase quality

Invokes all 3 agents IN PARALLEL using Task tool:

  • Task 1: Reads .claude/agents/tech-lead.md — architectural impact perspective
  • Task 2: Reads .claude/agents/developer.md — implementation cost perspective
  • Task 3: Reads .claude/agents/code-reviewer.md — quality and risk perspective

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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 · 234 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 90d8f25a4234

Subscribe to this mod's changes

council is a skill published in the GitHub repository Guild-Agents/guild (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,261 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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