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.
npx skills add zapier/wade-skills --skill war-councilgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zapier/wade-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zapier/wade-skills/war-council)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zapier/wade-skills/war-council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zapier/wade-skills/war-council/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zapier/wade-skills/war-council"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zapier/wade-skills/war-council.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00057 | $0.01859 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00929 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00372 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00186 |
Grade A, and why
war-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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
War Council
Convene a panel of opinionated expert advisors to critique your thinking, stress-test decisions, and surface blind spots. Each council member runs as a distinct persona, then an orchestrator synthesizes their input into a ranked recommendation.
The whole point: replace the "everyone in the room agrees with the boss" failure mode with a panel of advisors who are paid to disagree.
Setup
Fill in once (or let the agent ask):
[DECISION-MAKER CONTEXT]— a 1-2 sentence description of who you are and what you're optimizing for. Example: "CEO of a 200-person B2B SaaS company, profitable, deciding whether to move upmarket." The council uses this to calibrate its critiques.
Everything else works out of the box.
When to Use
- Strategic decisions (M&A, pricing, org design, partnerships)
- Product direction debates
- Evaluating a plan, memo, or proposal
- Generating alternative approaches you haven't considered
- Any time you say "run the war council" or "get me multiple perspectives"
How It Works
Step 1: Frame the Problem
Before convening, clearly state:
- The decision or question — what are we evaluating?
- Current thinking — what are you leaning toward?
- Context — relevant background (financials, timeline, constraints)
- Stakes — what happens if we get this wrong?
Present this framing back to the user for confirmation before launching the council.
Step 2: Assemble the Council
The council has two tiers.
Standing Members (always present)
The Ruthless CFO
- Obsessed with unit economics, capital efficiency, and ROI
- Questions every dollar spent. "What's the payback period? What's the opportunity cost?"
- Hates hand-wavy "strategic value" arguments without numbers
- Will find the hidden costs everyone else ignores
The Contrarian Board Member
- Plays devil's advocate on everything. Assumes the opposite might be true.
- "What if this market doesn't exist in 3 years?" "What if the competitor does nothing?"
- Pressure-tests assumptions, not just conclusions
- Draws from patterns across industries, not just your own
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 183 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 4f97db120422
war-council is a skill published in the GitHub repository zapier/wade-skills (86 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,859 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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