council

Runs multi-perspective decision analysis using five lenses, blind peer review, and chairman synthesis.

1|Updated Feb 19, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/alessioroberto82/claude-plugin-circle --skill council-alessioroberto82
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: council
Source: https://github.com/alessioroberto82/claude-plugin-circle/tree/main/plugins/circle/skills/council
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/alessioroberto82/claude-plugin-circle --skill council-alessioroberto82

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Hard decisions with multiple viable options often suffer from single-perspective blind spots, and this Skill structures a rigorous multi-lens deliberation to surface tradeoffs, conflicts, and hidden assumptions before committing. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five Analytical Lenses: Runs parallel advisor analyses through Critical, Root Cause, Opportunity, Fresh Context, and Execution lenses. - Blind Peer Review: Anonymizes advisor outputs and dispatches five independent reviewers to rate reasoning quality without knowing which lens produced each response. - Chairman Synthesis: De-anonymizes results and produces a verdict with consensus points, clashes, blind spots, a confidence-rated recommendation, and one concrete next action. - Use Case: When deciding between two architecture approaches for a new service, convene the council to pressure-test both options and receive a structured verdict with an explicit confidence level. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to council this decision: should we migrate our monolith to microservices now or defer it until after the next release?

Frequently Asked Questions about council

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I pressure-test a hard decision with multiple options?

Convene the council by describing the decision and its viable options. It runs five parallel lens analyses, blind peer reviews, and a chairman synthesis that returns a verdict with consensus, clashes, blind spots, and a recommended next step.

What is the LLM Council pattern for decision making?

The LLM Council pattern dispatches multiple independent analytical perspectives in parallel, anonymizes their outputs for blind peer review, then uses a chairman pass to synthesize a verdict. This implementation adapts the pattern with five purpose-defined lenses.

When should I not use multi-perspective council analysis?

Do not use it for factual questions, code generation, creative ideation, or requirements gathering. It is designed only for genuine decisions under uncertainty where the cost of being wrong is non-trivial.

Does the council skill save its verdicts to disk?

Verdicts are printed in chat by default. They are saved to ~/.circle/projects/{project}/output/council/ only when the user explicitly requests it or when the council runs inside an active greenfield session.

What happens if one of the council advisors fails?

The process continues with the remaining advisors and notes the missing lens for the chairman. If all advisors fail the council aborts, and if the chairman fails it retries once before outputting the raw advisor responses.