council

council is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 35 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured set of independent investigations that gathers several second opinions and combines them into one decision memo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for parallel research, competing technical opinions, and decisions that benefit from distinct investigative perspectives.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one viewpoint when a question has multiple plausible answers.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for parallel research, competing technical opinions, and decisions that benefit from distinct investigative perspectives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/council
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00035 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash f56037c444bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • council — 91% identical, 0 lines differ
.devin/skills/council/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User asks for a council, second opinions, or parallel investigation.
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation. Subagents inherit the same read-only posture unless the user explicitly scopes a narrower mutation.
Side effect Spawns parallel subagents in chat output. No repo mutation unless the user explicitly scopes it. Deliverable is the council's decision memo.
Done Decision memo with recommendation, consensus, risks, and evidence.

Inputs

The question or decision to investigate (required). Number of council members or specific investigative stances to represent (optional; default three distinct stances). Scope constraints and admissible evidence sources (optional). The user-stated criteria bound the investigation; do not widen scope beyond them.

Procedure

  1. Restate the question and confirm scope against the user-stated criteria. Bound the investigation before spawning; do not widen scope. Done when: the question is restated and scope is confirmed against user criteria.
  2. Define council members as distinct investigative stances appropriate to the question (for example optimist, skeptic, risk-auditor, domain expert). Use the user-specified stances when supplied; otherwise default to three. Done when: each council member is assigned a distinct investigative stance.
  3. Spawn one subagent per stance. Each subagent investigates the question independently from its assigned stance, gathers evidence, and returns a position with supporting evidence and identified risks. Done when: one subagent is spawned per stance and each returns a position with evidence and risks.
  4. Collect all subagent positions without merging prematurely. Done when: every subagent position is collected unmerged.
  5. Compare positions across stances: mark consensus points, disagreements, and unresolved risks. Done when: consensus points, disagreements, and unresolved risks are marked across all positions.
  6. Synthesize a decision memo stating the recommendation, the consensus reached, dissenting views, residual risks, and the evidence supporting each. Done when: the memo states recommendation, consensus, dissent, residual risks, and per-point evidence.
  7. Present the memo. Do not select or execute a decision unless the user explicitly authorizes further action. Done when: the memo is presented and no decision is executed without explicit user authorization.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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. 2d ago Changed · -15 tokens per session f56037c444bb
  2. 5d ago First seen · 40 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A fb36a8861861

Subscribe to this mod's changes

council is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 726 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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