What is consilium-connect?

An onboarding guide for connecting Consilium-Principis, a decision-support board based on the public writings of thinkers such as Sun Tzu and Marcus Aurelius, to an AI coding agent. It is only the setup guide; the advisor system runs separately.

Use it to install the project, generate the server configuration, and connect that server to supported AI-agent hosts.

It prevents the agent from pretending the advisors or their tools are available before the separate server is connected.

consilium-connect — Skill for Claude Code by ilyautov

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilyautov/consilium-principis

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/ilyautov/consilium-principis/consilium-connect

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install consilium-principis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 687 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium MCP Rug Pull · line 17
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00133	$0.00687
Opus 5	$0.00067	$0.00344
Sonnet 5	$0.00027	$0.00137
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00069

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2dec95c236a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consilium-connect 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.

skills/consilium-connect/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Consilium-Principis — connect the server (onboarding)

Important, read first. This markdown skill is a funnel, not the product. The advisor logic — the fidelity contour (🔵 verbatim / 🟢 commentary / 🟡 extrapolation / 📐 calculation), fail-closed abstention, the quote gate, the council choreography, and every tool — lives in a local MCP server (scripts/mcp_server.py), not in this file. Installed on its own via npx skills add, this skill has no tools to call yet. Its whole job is to get you to the server.

Do not fabricate advisor answers or pretend the tools exist. If the MCP server is not connected, say so and walk the user through connecting it.

What to do

Get the code. Clone or install the project:

git clone https://github.com/ilyautov/consilium-principis ~/consilium-principis
cd ~/consilium-principis
python3 install.py        # or run in place; Python 3.10+

Wire the MCP server into this agent. Generate a machine-correct config snippet:
```
python3 scripts/board.py mcp-config --json   # on Windows: py -3 ...
```
Then paste it into your host's MCP configuration. Host-by-host recipes (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kimi CLI, and any universal MCP host) are in docs/CONNECT-HOSTS.md.
Convene. Once the server is connected, say "where do I start". The server's INSTRUCTIONS (delivered over the MCP initialize handshake) take over: it checks readiness (doctor) and seeds a starter board (seed_council: Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, public-domain). If your host does not forward initialize instructions automatically, ask the agent to call the doctor and seed_council tools explicitly.

Why a separate MCP server

The moat is local execution with a bring-your-own private corpus: nothing runs on anyone else's infrastructure, and only public-domain content is ever packaged. A markdown-only skill cannot carry that guarantee — it can only point you at the server that enforces it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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.

12d ago First seen · 54 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 2dec95c236a0

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consilium-connect is a skill published in the GitHub repository ilyautov/consilium-principis (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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