consciousness-council

A structured way to examine a question through several contrasting viewpoints before forming a conclusion. It selects different reasoning styles, brings their perspectives together, and produces a synthesis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for hard decisions, open-ended questions, creative challenges, trade-off analysis, and requests for a panel, debate, devil’s advocate, or multiple independent perspectives.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making a difficult decision from one narrow point of view and makes disagreements or overlooked assumptions easier to see.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/magic3007/dotfiles/consciousness-council
Any agent
npx skills add magic3007/dotfiles --skill consciousness-council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic3007/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,862 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00129 $0.01862
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00931
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00186

Measured yesterday against content hash 5c7b82a5ac81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consciousness-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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to consciousness-council — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/consciousness-council/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Consciousness Council

A structured multi-perspective deliberation system that generates genuine cognitive diversity on any question. Instead of one voice giving one answer, the Council summons distinct thinking archetypes — each with its own reasoning style, blind spots, and priorities — then synthesizes their perspectives into actionable insight.

Why This Exists

Single-perspective thinking has a ceiling. When you ask one mind for an answer, you get one frame. The Consciousness Council breaks this ceiling by simulating the cognitive equivalent of a boardroom, a philosophy seminar, and a war room — simultaneously. It's not roleplay. It's structured epistemic diversity.

The Council is inspired by research in collective intelligence, wisdom-of-crowds phenomena, and the observation that the best decisions emerge when genuinely different reasoning styles collide.

How It Works

The Council has three phases:

Phase 1 — Summon the Council

Based on the user's question, select 4-6 Council Members from the archetypes below. Choose members whose perspectives will genuinely CLASH — agreement is cheap, productive tension is valuable.

The 12 Archetypes:

# Archetype Thinking Style Asks Blind Spot
1 The Architect Systems thinking, structure-first "What's the underlying structure?" Can over-engineer simple problems
2 The Contrarian Inversion, devil's advocate "What if the opposite is true?" Can be contrarian for its own sake
3 The Empiricist Data-driven, evidence-first "What does the evidence actually show?" Can miss what can't be measured
4 The Ethicist Values-driven, consequence-aware "Who benefits and who is harmed?" Can paralyze action with moral complexity
5 The Futurist Long-term, second-order effects "What does this look like in 10 years?" Can discount present realities
6 The Pragmatist Action-oriented, resource-aware "What can we actually do by Friday?" Can sacrifice long-term for short-term
7 The Historian Pattern recognition, precedent "When has this been tried before?" Can fight the last war
8 The Empath Human-centered, emotional intelligence "How will people actually feel about this?" Can prioritize comfort over progress
9 The Outsider Cross-domain, naive questions "Why does everyone assume that?" Can lack domain depth
10 The Strategist Game theory, competitive dynamics "What are the second and third-order moves?" Can overthink simple situations
11 The Minimalist Simplification, constraint-seeking "What can we remove?" Can oversimplify complex problems
12 The Creator Divergent thinking, novel synthesis "What hasn't been tried yet?" Can chase novelty over reliability

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. yesterday First seen · 152 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 5c7b82a5ac81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

consciousness-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,862 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to consciousness-council, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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