Give your agent more perspectives.

Five independent advisors. One clear recommendation.

Council is a skill that helps you make decisions. Ask a question about your project. Five independent advisors weigh in. The Chairman brings it all together. Your agent adds its own take and next step.

Use it for architectural calls, product and marketing decisions, naming debates — any decision worth more than one perspective.

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Works with Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, ChatGPT Work, and other harnesses that support parallel, isolated subagents.

Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Council.

Claude: /council:council should we rewrite this service in Rust?
Codex:  $council:council deep what's the commercial viability of this app right now?

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Install

Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add mattakins/council
/plugin install council@mattakins

Plugin skills are namespaced. Invoke this skill as /council:council <question>.

Codex plugin

codex plugin marketplace add mattakins/council
codex plugin add council@mattakins

Invoke the plugin skill as $council:council <question>.

Universal Agent Skills install

npx skills add mattakins/council -g

The Skills CLI installs the shared SKILL.md into the paths expected by the agents you select.

Standalone install

Clone or copy plugins/council/skills/council into one of these supported locations:

• Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/council/
• Codex: ~/.agents/skills/council/
• OpenCode: ~/.agents/skills/council/ or ~/.config/opencode/skills/council/

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Usage

Replace <council> with /council:council for the Claude plugin or $council:council for the Codex plugin. Flags combine, and options also work as plain language — e.g. use 4 advisors, no research, and save: <question>.

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How it works

1. Parse — extracts agent count, perspectives, flags, and auto-detects if research is needed
2. Research detection — if the question involves markets, companies, current events, or real-world data, agents are automatically told to research before answering. No flag needed.
3. Parallel agents — all advisors run simultaneously, blind to each other, each from their assigned perspective
4. Chairman synthesis — a fresh, isolated subagent synthesizes the council into a definitive verdict (skippable with quick)
5. My Take — the final section: an opinionated recommendation drawing on both the council outputs and full conversation context

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Output structure

Chairman's Verdict:
[Definitive synthesis]

| Agent | Perspective | Recommendation | Confidence |
| ...   | ...         | ...            | ...        |

Consensus: ...
Dissent (if any): ...
Risks: ...
Verdict: ...

My Take: ...        ← always present, always opinionated
Next step: ...

Compatibility

The instruction format follows the open Agent Skills specification. Full behavior requires a harness that can launch parallel, isolated subagents.

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License

MIT