council

council is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured group of four viewpoints for making difficult decisions when several reasonable options exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for go-or-no-go decisions, release choices, architecture trade-offs, or questions such as monorepo versus separate repositories.
Why use it?
It exposes disagreements and trade-offs before choosing a direction, reducing the risk of settling too quickly on one idea.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,091 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ufy2024/auc/council
Any agent
npx skills add ufy2024/AuC --skill council
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ufy2024/AuC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.01480
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00148

Measured 3d ago against content hash ef76b98a11d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 3d 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

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • council — 94% identical, 26 lines differ
  • council — 94% identical, 26 lines differ
  • council — 94% identical, 26 lines differ
  • council — 92% identical, 25 lines differ
  • council — 92% identical, 25 lines differ
  • council — 91% identical, 31 lines differ
auc/skill_library/bundled/council/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Council

Convene four advisors for ambiguous decisions:

  • the in-context Claude voice
  • a Skeptic subagent
  • a Pragmatist subagent
  • a Critic subagent

This is for decision-making under ambiguity, not code review, implementation planning, or architecture design.

When to Use

Use council when:

  • a decision has multiple credible paths and no obvious winner
  • you need explicit tradeoff surfacing
  • the user asks for second opinions, dissent, or multiple perspectives
  • conversational anchoring is a real risk
  • a go / no-go call would benefit from adversarial challenge

Examples:

  • monorepo vs polyrepo
  • ship now vs hold for polish
  • feature flag vs full rollout
  • simplify scope vs keep strategic breadth

When NOT to Use

Instead of council Use
Verifying whether output is correct santa-method
Breaking a feature into implementation steps planner
Designing system architecture architect
Reviewing code for bugs or security code-reviewer or santa-method
Straight factual questions just answer directly
Obvious execution tasks just do the task

Roles

Voice Lens
Architect correctness, maintainability, long-term implications
Skeptic premise challenge, simplification, assumption breaking
Pragmatist shipping speed, user impact, operational reality
Critic edge cases, downside risk, failure modes

The three external voices should be launched as fresh subagents with only the question and relevant context, not the full ongoing conversation. That is the anti-anchoring mechanism.

Workflow

1. Extract the real question

Reduce the decision to one explicit prompt:

  • what are we deciding?
  • what constraints matter?
  • what counts as success?

If the question is vague, ask one clarifying question before convening the council.

2. Gather only the necessary context

If the decision is codebase-specific:

  • collect the relevant files, snippets, issue text, or metrics
  • keep it compact
  • include only the context needed to make the decision

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 3d ago First seen · 223 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ef76b98a11d0

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council is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,091 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,480 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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