council

council is a skill for Claude Code from Nafjan/summon. It costs 41 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured discussion process for open-ended questions, using independent viewpoints, cross-examination, and a chairperson’s synthesis. It is part of the Summon workflow for comparing judgments from different participants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Asking several participants to examine an open question, compare their positions, challenge one another, and produce a recommendation or candidate options.
Why use it?
It helps surface disagreement and alternative views before a decision is made. It does not itself create an approved, binding decision or start the later fixed-option process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is ../summon/scripts/run_subagent.py council --question "…" \.

Good fit Asking several participants to examine an open question, compare their positions, challenge one another, and produce a recommendation or candidate options.

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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/Nafjan/summon
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nafjan/summon/council

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 344 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.00344
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00138
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c59f867343b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/council/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Council — open-ended judgment for Summon

/council is the focused companion entry point for Summon's existing council workflow. It owns no scheduler, scripts, schemas, or duplicate policy. Read ../summon/references/deliberation.md for the boundary between council and the fixed-option deliberate workflow.

Use /council when the question is open-ended, the useful output is independent positions plus cross-examination, or a chairman should synthesize disagreement. Use /deliberate only after a person has fixed at least two option IDs, named seats, quorum, rounds, physical-attempt budget, absolute deadline, and the human-approval policy.

The CLI is the same dispatcher:

../summon/scripts/run_subagent.py council --question "…" \
  --members planner,security,operator --chairman architect --rounds 2 \
  --cwd <project> --run-dir <private-runs-root>

Council may produce a recommendation or candidate option set, but that prose is not a durable ballot and cannot authorize a deliberate run. To continue into a governed decision, show the candidate options to the user, obtain explicit policy values, and start a fresh summon deliberate receipt. Never auto-convert, retry, or fall back between the two modes.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c59f867343b6

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nafjan/summon (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 344 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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