council-open

What problem does it solve?

Manually setting up shared coordination channels for multi-agent teams is error-prone, inconsistent, and wastes time on repetitive filesystem setup and configuration. This Skill automates the entire channel creation workflow, ensuring consistent, governed, and schema-valid state every time.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automated Preflight Validation: Checks for filesystem permissions, missing dependencies, and invalid inputs before creating any state, preventing partial or broken channel setups.
• Atomic State Initialization: Creates all required channel state files (channel.json, seq.json, digest.json) with rollback safety if any step fails mid-creation.
• Optional MAD & A2A Support: Can initialize MAD methodology artifacts (spec, plan, task stubs) and publish A2A-compatible Agent Cards for cross-agent interoperability.
• Use Case: A development team lead can instantly spin up a dedicated triage-gated production channel for a new authentication feature, set polling intervals for team updates, and invite other agents to join without manual configuration.

Quick Start

Use the council-open skill to create a new coordination channel named 'es-training' for coordinating elasticsearch model training work, set to local tier with 2-minute polling for updates from other team members.