council-lite

council-lite is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from himanshufound/council. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A multi-approach coordinator that runs one request through several skills or methods separately, then combines the results or selects the best one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want several independent attempts, a merged response, or a comparison of possible approaches.
Why use it?
It helps compare different ways of solving the same problem before settling on an answer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when you want several independent attempts, a merged response, or a comparison of possible approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/himanshufound/council/council-lite
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add himanshufound/council --skill council-lite
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himanshufound/council

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,068 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 $0.00114 $0.01068
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00534
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00107

Measured 12d ago against content hash 301cff963c27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-lite 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 12d 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.

council-lite/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council Lite — Multi-Approach Orchestrator (claude.ai)

Run one request through several skills or approaches, then aggregate: one merged answer, or the single best. This is the claude.ai version of Council.

How it differs from the full Claude Code skill — say this plainly if it matters to the user: claude.ai runs everything in a single conversation with no subagents, no shell, and no way to auto-discover your other installed skills. So Council Lite cannot give each skill a truly separate, walled-off run. Instead it does the best a single context allows: each pass is produced as independently as possible, deliberately not leaning on the earlier passes. If the user needs real isolation (each skill blind to the others), point them to the full Council skill in Claude Code. Do not overstate the isolation here.

When to run

  • The user invokes /council / /council-lite, or
  • asks in plain language to compare approaches / run several skills / get multiple takes and combine them. In the natural-language case, confirm once ("Want me to run this through a few approaches and combine them?") before starting — don't silently produce six drafts.

If the request itself isn't stated yet, ask for it before running.

Step 1 — Choose what to run it through

There is no filesystem discovery here, so ask the user directly. Offer two ways, as a short conversational prompt (no special picker UI exists — use a plain numbered list and let them reply in text):

  • Named skills — if the user has other skills uploaded to claude.ai, they name the ones to include (e.g. "run it through my minimalist-ui and web-design-guidelines skills"). For each named skill, apply that skill's own instructions during its pass.
  • Ad-hoc lenses — if they don't have matching skills, have them name distinct approaches/personas/lenses instead (e.g. "a security reviewer, a performance reviewer, and a plain-English explainer"). Each becomes one pass.

Confirm the resolved list in one line before running. There is no persistent skillset store in this version — selections are per-conversation. If the user wants saved, reusable skillsets, that's a full-Council (Claude Code) feature; say so rather than pretending to save one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 301cff963c27

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council-lite is a skill published in the GitHub repository himanshufound/council (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,068 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.