local-council-execution

local-council-execution is a skill for Claude Code from hex/claude-council. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local council workflow that starts several independent Claude subagents, gives each one a different role or viewpoint, and combines their answers. It is used when external AI providers are unavailable or when the user explicitly requests local mode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for local council questions, with one subagent per role, then synthesize the viewpoints while clearly treating them as perspectives rather than outside validation.
Why use it?
It provides multiple angles and blind-spot coverage without external providers. Because all members are Claude, agreement between them is not independent confirmation from different AI systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 local council questions, with one subagent per role, then synthesize the viewpoints while clearly treating them as perspectives rather than outside validation.

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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 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,523 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 $0.00098 $0.01523
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00152

Measured 9d ago against content hash df27aec2f7c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-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 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.

skills/local-council-execution/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local Council Execution

When no external providers are configured, convene a council of independent Claude subagents instead. Each member answers from one role, blind to the others; you then synthesize the spread of perspectives.

Read this first — the honest framing is not optional. Every member is Claude. They share priors and training, so agreement between them is weak signal, not validation. The value here is independent angles and blind-spot coverage, not consensus. The output you produce MUST make this explicit and MUST NOT present member agreement as if it were cross-vendor corroboration.

Step 0: Confirm this is a local-council context (guard)

A local council is the fallback for when no real providers exist — it is not a default way to "use the council". Only proceed if one of these holds:

  1. The user explicitly passed --local, or
  2. There are no configured providers and the user accepted the local-council offer.

If you reached this skill any other way, verify providers are actually absent before spawning anything:

bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/query-council.sh --list-default 2>&1 | head -1

If that lists one or more providers and the user did not ask for --local, STOP — do not spawn local members. Run the standard cross-vendor flow (council-execution) so the real providers answer, since same-model role-play is strictly weaker than the cross-vendor council the user can actually get.

Step 1: Resolve the roles

Source the libs once:

source ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/lib/prompts.sh
source ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/lib/roles.sh

If the user passed --roles, it already says both which lenses and how many members — use it directly and skip the size question:

local_council_roles "<--roles value>"

Otherwise, ask the user how many members to convene, then resolve that many:

AskUserQuestion:
  Question: "How many independent perspectives should the local council convene? More members means broader angle coverage, but a longer run and synthesis."
  Header: "Members"
  multiSelect: false
  Options:
    - "4 (Recommended) - balanced breadth"
    - "3 - quick, three sharpest lenses"
    - "5 - thorough"
    - "6 - exhaustive"

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 164 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A df27aec2f7c8

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local-council-execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository hex/claude-council (705 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,523 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.