ct-council

ct-council is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kryptobaseddev/cleo. It costs 166 tokens per session (5,639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process in which five advisers examine a plan, decision, architecture, or piece of work from different viewpoints, review one another's findings, and produce one final verdict. It is designed for high-stakes review rather than quick questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test an important technical plan, architecture choice, decision, or existing implementation before proceeding.
Why use it?
It exposes weaknesses that a single review might miss and checks whether the reviewers are converging on the same understanding. The process creates a structured final recommendation for the owner.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,639 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 5.1 $0.00166 $0.05639
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.02819
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.01128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00564

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0bb3c13cf03c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ct-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (optimization/scripts/campaign.py, optimization/scripts/test_campaign.py, scripts/analyze_runs.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packages/skills/skills/ct-council/SKILL.md · 378 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 378 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Council

Overview

The Council reviews a proposal, plan, architecture decision, or existing implementation from five locked perspectives, cross-checks each perspective through a shuffled gate-based peer review, runs a convergence detector to catch frame drift, then has a Chairman synthesize one final verdict for the owner.

Five advisorsShuffled peer review (4 pass/fail gates per reviewee)Convergence detectorChairman synthesisSingle verdict to owner.

Every Council run's output is validated by scripts/validate.py — structural failures are caught automatically.

When to use

  • Owner presents a plan, design, or existing implementation and wants it stress-tested from multiple angles.
  • A decision is high-stakes enough that a single-perspective analysis feels thin.
  • The user explicitly invokes the council ("convene the council", "council on X", "run the five", etc.).

Do NOT use for simple factual questions, routine implementation tasks, or anything the user wants a quick answer on. The Council is heavyweight by design.

The five advisors

Each advisor has their own progressive-disclosure file with full persona, mandate, hard rules, and self-contained output template. When running an advisor pass, load only that advisor's file — this enforces frame integrity and works equally well in single-Claude mode (re-read per pass) and subagent mode (each subagent briefed with only their persona).

Advisor Frame Produces Persona file
Contrarian Devil's advocate / risk analyst Failure modes with trigger conditions references/contrarian.md
First Principles Zero-based rebuilder Atomic truths + reconstructed solution references/first-principles.md
Expansionist Frame-expander / opportunity-spotter Asymmetric upside + latent assets references/expansionist.md
Outsider Cold-read stranger Claim/reality gaps from the artifact alone references/outsider.md
Executor Action-only Exactly one 60-minute action with expected outcome references/executor.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 378 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. 2d ago First seen · 378 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 0bb3c13cf03c

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ct-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository kryptobaseddev/cleo (160 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 5,639 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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