council

council is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 143 tokens per session (4,370 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A second-opinion service that asks other AI models to examine a question or review a draft. It can gather independent views or stress-test an existing answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for difficult decisions, fresh perspectives, or critiques of proposals, messages, claims, and other drafts.
Why use it?
It exposes disagreements and possible flaws that one model’s reasoning might miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/gemini-consult.py --mode independent --question '...' --context '...'.

Good fit Use it for difficult decisions, fresh perspectives, or critiques of proposals, messages, claims, and other drafts.

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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/mishahanin/heading-os
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/council

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 143 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,370 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 analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00143 $0.04370
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.02185
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00874
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00437

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09641e74a979, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/council/SKILL.md · 338 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council - Independent Second Opinions (Kimi k3 by default; Gemini + Grok opt-in)

Independent second opinions dispatched in parallel. Use when:

  • The user wants fresh views on a hard call (independent mode)
  • The user wants a draft stress-tested before it ships (critique mode)

This skill is distinct from /deep-think (Claude reasoning harder, alone) and /odin (Claude + the curated knowledge brain). The unique value is a model with a different training pedigree, different RLHF, and different failure modes reaching the question independently. Agreement is stronger evidence, and disagreement is itself information. --all restores the three-model roster when breadth matters more than latency.


Phase 0 - Determine mode

Read the user's request.

CRITIQUE mode if any of:

  • The user passed --critique
  • The user said "stress-test this", "critique this draft", "find flaws in", "what's wrong with this", "review this draft"
  • The user pasted a draft (proposal, message, claim) and asked for review

INDEPENDENT mode otherwise (default).


Phase 1 - Gather inputs

For INDEPENDENT mode, prepare:

  • question: the user's question, cleaned and concrete
  • context: facts the user has shared in this conversation that bear on the question. Important: include the FACTS (numbers, names, dates, constraints), NOT Claude's reasoning or proposed answer. The whole point of independent mode is to give Gemini a clean slate.

For CRITIQUE mode, prepare:

  • draft: the exact draft text to critique. If the user passed --critique 'text' inline, the draft is the quoted text immediately following the flag. If the user pasted a draft in the message body without the flag, use that body verbatim.
  • context: why the draft was produced (audience, goal, constraints). In critique mode, including Claude's reasoning IS appropriate - Gemini is being asked to stress-test it.

Optional — to give Claude's view a distinct lens from the outside models, pull 2-5 methods from reference/elicitation-methods.md (python scripts/elicit.py list --category collaboration; categories collaboration/research/framing, e.g. Steelmanning, Reframe the Question). Skip when the question is already well-framed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 338 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 338 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A 09641e74a979

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 143 tokens to every session and 4,370 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 2026-08-30.

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