council-execution

council-execution is a skill for Claude Code from hex/claude-council. It costs 66 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command workflow for asking the same question to selected AI providers and combining their answers. It saves the responses to a file, displays that file exactly as written, and creates a summary covering agreement, differences, and recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for standard council questions, where a council means several AI services answering one question. It helps compare providers and produce a synthesis of their responses.
Why use it?
It organizes multi-provider questions into a repeatable process and preserves the original answers for review. It also handles slow or failed provider runs according to the configured retry behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-council plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for standard council questions, where a council means several AI services answering one question. It helps compare providers and produce a synthesis of their responses.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add hex/claude-council
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-council

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 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 $0.00066 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00059

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4df86067c861, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-execution 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 8d 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.

skills/council-execution/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.

Council Query Execution

Step 1: Run Query and Save to File

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/run-council.sh --providers=gemini,openai -- "Your question"

This outputs the path to the saved file (e.g., .claude/council-cache/council-1734567890.md).

Flag syntax: Use = with no spaces: --providers=gemini,openai

CRITICAL: Always place -- before the prompt to prevent prompt text containing dashes from being parsed as flags.

Run this Bash call with timeout: 600000 (ten minutes). The Bash tool's two-minute default is shorter than a slow council round, and inside tmux a provider failure makes the streaming pane offer the user a retry for COUNCIL_RETRY_WAIT seconds (default 45) and then runs another provider round if accepted. A call cut off mid-run loses the whole transcript, the answers that did arrive included.

Step 2: Read and Display the Output VERBATIM

Use the Read tool to read the output file path returned by Step 1.

CRITICAL: Display the file content EXACTLY as written. Do NOT:

  • Reformat or reinterpret any text
  • Add your own headers or structure
  • Summarize or abbreviate responses
  • Skip any lines including separator lines (---)

Simply copy-paste the entire file content into your response.

Step 3: Complete the Synthesis Section

The file ends with a ## Synthesis header. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/prompts/synthesis.md and write your synthesis UNDER that header following its structure (Consensus / Divergence / Recommendation) and calibration rules.

Step 4: Notify User of Saved Output

After displaying the synthesis, tell the user:


(use this emoji 💾) Full output saved to .claude/council-cache/council-TIMESTAMP.md (use the actual filename)

This lets them review the complete responses later.

Output Format: Provider Names

The output file uses emoji prefixes to visually distinguish providers. Preserve this format when displaying results:

Provider Prefix
Gemini 🟦 Gemini
OpenAI 🔳 OpenAI
Grok 🟥 Grok
Perplexity 🟩 Perplexity

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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 4df86067c861

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council-execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository hex/claude-council (699 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 588 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.