panel

Convene a blind multi-model panel on the decision below. In the standard external panel, every engine receives the same neutral brief, works with no knowledge of the other panelists, and you adjudicate the returned verdicts.

Decision or question to adjudicate: $ARGUMENTS

Compose the brief:

• Write ONE neutral, self contained brief containing: the decision or question, the constraints that bound the answer, the relevant file paths, and explicit coverage or acceptance criteria for what a good answer must address. Collection review verifies this consultation brief; it does not need a shell verification command. Its first line is the single routing header required by policy and includes lane: panel, grok-role: independence (one of the four permitted Grok roles), and the explicit acceptance criteria; the shared routing header is also included in the identical prompt sent to Codex.
• Never include a candidate answer, a leaning, any prior model opinion, or any context from this conversation. The panel is blind; a brief that hints at a preferred answer is invalid.
• End the brief with: "This is a consultation. Analyze and recommend; do not modify any files."
• Keep the exact brief in the Agent calls and pass it directly as each Agent prompt. Do not create a transport file, temp brief, or plugin-data payload with Write. Companion adapters own any private staging required by their transports. Panel consultations do not use isolated implementation worktrees or a Codex only --cwd prefix because either would violate the identical brief invariant.
• If the request is too thin to build a self contained brief, ask the user for the missing constraints before launching.

Launch the panel:

• In one tool message, invoke grok:grok-rescue and codex:codex-rescue with the identical brief as their direct prompt. Use plain grok-rescue or codex-rescue if the namespaced form is not found. Do not set run_in_background; parallel tool calls provide overlap while each result remains owned and collected.
• Never set background mode on the Codex Agent and never add --background to its brief. Complexity, expected duration, and model choice do not change this rule.
• Add cursor:cursor-rescue as a third parallel track only when the user asks for a wider panel. Its copy of the identical brief adds cursor-role: diversity to the routing header, and its leading companion options pick a model from a family that is neither the orchestrator's nor OpenAI's nor xAI's, using the cursor diversity lane default unless the routing table scores a better unseated family.
• Add fusion:deep-reasoner as a parallel track only when the user asks for it or the question hinges on Claude native long horizon reasoning. Its prompt must use the fusion-brief: v1 isolated envelope.

Degrade when a track is unavailable:

• A panel never runs with fewer than two tracks. Two isolated instances of the same model still tend to outperform one in published multi-model deliberation results; the independent synthesis carries much of the lift.
• If a track fails to launch because its agent type does not exist (plugin not installed) or returns an unavailability line such as grok unavailable: ... or cursor unavailable: ..., do not abort the panel. Rerun the missing track as cursor:cursor-rescue under cursor-role: diversity on a family distinct from the seated track and from the orchestrator, because a different family keeps the panel's independence that a same family Claude substitute cannot; only when Cursor is also unavailable, rerun it as fusion:deep-reasoner (plain deep-reasoner if the namespaced form is not found) with the identical brief. Note every substitution in the final synthesis.
• If no external engine is available, run a Claude only panel: two fusion:deep-reasoner (plain deep-reasoner if the namespaced form is not found) tracks with explicitly different lenses, and tell the user the panel ran without external engines. This is the only exception to the identical brief rule. Derive two direct prompts by adding lens: risk first and lens: simplest viable answer to otherwise identical fusion-brief: v1 envelopes.
• Availability failures are infrastructure, not verdicts; never present a missing engine as agreeing or disagreeing.