council

council is a skill for Claude Code from softspark/ai-toolkit. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A decision-review process that examines an architecture choice from four different viewpoints and combines the results into a recommendation with a comparison table.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technical approaches, review proposals, and assess architecture decisions from multiple perspectives.
Why use it?
It makes trade-offs and alternative options easier to see before committing to an architecture decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare technical approaches, review proposals, and assess architecture decisions from multiple perspectives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/softspark/ai-toolkit/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 softspark/ai-toolkit --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 115 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,215 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 $0.00029 $0.01215
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00486
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00121

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ecb8dc194280, 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.

app/skills/council/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Council

$ARGUMENTS

Evaluate a decision from 4 distinct perspectives using parallel sub-agents, then synthesize a weighted recommendation.

Usage

/council [decision question or proposal to evaluate]

What This Command Does

  1. Parses the decision question from user input
  2. Gathers codebase context relevant to the decision
  3. Spawns 4 parallel sub-agents — each analyzing from a different perspective
  4. Synthesizes all perspectives into a structured recommendation with decision matrix

MANDATORY: You MUST use the Agent tool

DO NOT analyze the decision yourself. Your job is to parse the question, spawn 4 sub-agents in parallel via the Agent tool, and synthesize their outputs. If you attempt to provide all perspectives inline, you have failed.

Process

1. Parse the Decision

Extract from the user's input:

  • The proposal — what is being considered
  • The alternatives — what the options are (if not stated, infer the implicit alternative: status quo)
  • The context — what project/codebase/situation this applies to

If the question is too vague to evaluate, ask ONE clarifying question before proceeding.

2. Gather Context

Before spawning agents, quickly scan the codebase for relevant context:

  • Current tech stack, dependencies, patterns in use
  • Existing code related to the decision area
  • Configuration, infrastructure, or architectural choices already made

Include this context in each sub-agent prompt so perspectives are grounded in reality.

3. Spawn 4 Sub-Agents in Parallel (REQUIRED)

Call the Agent tool 4 times in a single response — all agents MUST launch in the same message to run in parallel.

Agent Role Directive
Advocate Case FOR Present the strongest case FOR the proposal. Find evidence, benefits, success stories. Reference relevant code/patterns in the codebase. Be persuasive but honest.
Critic Case AGAINST Present the strongest case AGAINST. Find risks, hidden costs, failure modes, alternatives that might be better. Be thorough but fair.
Pragmatist Trade-offs Evaluate practical trade-offs: implementation cost, timeline, team capacity, maintenance burden, migration risk, operational complexity. Ground estimates in the actual codebase size and patterns.
User-Proxy User impact Consider end-user and customer impact: UX changes, downtime during migration, performance implications, breaking changes, adoption friction, documentation needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

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 · 134 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ecb8dc194280

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (180 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,215 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.