council
Five personas, one judge, one verdict
Your idea, cross-examined before you spend six months on it.
Friends are polite and a single AI chat agrees with whoever asked. council convenes five adversarial personas that attack your idea in parallel, blind to each other, and a judge who rules GO, PIVOT or KILL with the cheapest decisive test defined before you run it.
Install
gh repo clone noluyorAbi/claude-council-skillthen ask with /council <your idea>
Watch a session, with sound
Narrated 62 second demo: council re-rules a real idea from PIVOT 65 to PIVOT 58, shows the delta and the evidence ledger
62 seconds, narrated. A real recheck ruling, its delta, and the evidence ledger. Nothing in the output is staged.
Why this exists
Building the thing takes a weekend. Finding out whether anyone wants it is what eats the six months, and most ideas never meet a hard question before the time is already spent.
council makes the hard questions arrive first: independent personas argue the strongest case for and against, silent assumptions are forced into the open, and the ruling comes with three load-bearing assumptions plus the test that would break them. Every session is written to your repo, so tomorrow you can ask what changed.
A verdict you can hold accountable beats an opinion you wanted to hear.
What you get
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Five personas, blind and parallel
Believer, Skeptic, Customer, Competitor and Investor argue independently; none of them sees the others. Independence is the product.
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One decisive judge
GO, PIVOT or KILL with a confidence score. PIVOT must name the replaced element; hedging between verdicts is forbidden by contract.
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A pre-registered next test
Every verdict ships the cheapest decisive experiment, under a week, near-zero cost, with its pass and fail thresholds fixed before you run it.
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An assumptions ledger
Three load-bearing assumptions with flip thresholds live in your repo. Log evidence against them: held is one ledger line, broken reconvenes the council.
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Answer, appeal, recheck
Answer the kill-shot questions, challenge the ruling, or declare what changed. The judge must engage every point and state what moved.
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Rank, quick mode, wildcard
Rank all councilled ideas by what deserves the next week, run a 3-persona bench for feature-scale calls, and get a domain expert seated when the verdict hinges on law, medicine or deep tech.
Install and use
Two markdown skills, no dependencies, no build step.
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Clone
With the GitHub CLI, or plain git clone if you prefer.
gh repo clone noluyorAbi/claude-council-skill -
Install the skills
Copies council and the display-only council-help cheat sheet into Claude Code. New sessions pick them up automatically.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-council-skill/skills/council claude-council-skill/skills/council-help ~/.claude/skills/ -
Convene
One paragraph in, one verdict out, everything persisted to .council/ in your project.
/council LectureCast: transcribe lectures locally, sell summaries to students
Uninstall with rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/council ~/.claude/skills/council-help. The .council/ verdict history in your projects stays untouched.