council

council is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from justinjdev/fellowship. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A task-starting skill that reads a project's guidance and relevant files, then prepares a short context summary for the coding agent. It can also resume from a saved checkpoint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting substantial work, returning to an in-progress session, or launching the broader quest workflow.
Why use it?
Agents entering an existing project may miss conventions, earlier decisions, or unfinished work. This provides that context before a larger task begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the fellowship plugin — 20 skills, 19 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install fellowship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 19 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,170 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 $0.00055 $0.01170
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 4d ago against content hash 080077ef2a2c, 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 4d 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.

plugin/skills/council/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council — Context-Aware Task Onboarding

Overview

Loads focused, task-relevant context at the start of any non-trivial work session. Produces a structured Session Context block that serves as the foundation for all downstream work. This is the "onboarding the agent within every repo" pattern from context engineering.

When to Use

  • Starting any task that involves more than a quick fix
  • Beginning a new session on existing in-progress work
  • Invoked automatically as Phase 0 of /quest

Process

Step 0: Check for Existing Checkpoint

Before doing anything else, check if .fellowship/checkpoint.md exists (in repo root). (.fellowship/ is the default data directory; users can override it via dataDir in ~/.claude/fellowship.json.)

If it does:

  1. Read the checkpoint file
  2. Present the checkpoint summary to the user
  3. Ask: "Found a checkpoint from [timestamp] on branch [branch]. Resume from where you left off, or start fresh?"
  4. If resuming: load the checkpoint as the Session Context. Skip Steps 1-4 and go directly to Step 5 (confirm with user).
  5. If starting fresh: delete the checkpoint file and continue with Step 1.

Step 1: Read Project Context

Read the root CLAUDE.md. Extract:

  • Reference files relevant to the task area
  • Review conventions that apply
  • Architecture constraints

If no CLAUDE.md exists, note: "Consider running /chronicle to set up project context."

Also check for ~/.claude/fellowship.json (the user's personal Claude directory). If it exists, read it and note any non-default settings. These will be included in the Session Context block under Architecture Notes so downstream skills (quest, lembas) are aware of the active configuration.

Step 2: Understand the Task

Ask one focused question:

"What are you working on? (One sentence describing the task and which area of the codebase it touches.)"

If invoked by quest, the task description is passed in — skip the question.

Step 3: Identify Package Scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 4d ago First seen · 116 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 080077ef2a2c

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository justinjdev/fellowship (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,170 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 2026-08-31.

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