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Agent skill

Council

by automagik-dev in automagik-dev/genie

Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Council

skills CLI
$ npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill council -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install automagik-dev/genie council --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genie.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/council .claude/skills/council && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
council
GitHub stars
346
Token cost
~976 tokens
SKILL.md length
450 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested.

  • Agent Workflows work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Dispatch, Lens response and Synthesis
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Council is an agent skill from automagik-dev/genie. Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested.

Its SKILL.md is about 980 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. The repository describes itself as: Wishes in, PRs out. CLI agent that interviews you, plans the work, dispatches parallel agents in isolated worktrees, and reviews code before you see it. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Agent Workflows work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/council”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f07c26f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Council loads about 976 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 450 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~976

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from automagik-dev/genie at commit f07c26f, republished under its MIT licence (© automagik-dev). 450 words, ~976 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/council/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
council
description
Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested.
category
routing
mutates
none

Council

Use a council when a consequential decision benefits from independent scrutiny. The council assesses; it does not edit files, change configuration, or execute the plan unless the user explicitly asks for that.

The council is a saved workflow, not a procedure this skill performs inline. The single source of truth is .claude/workflows/council.js in the genie repository's canonical workflow catalog (see .claude/workflows/README.md there); this skill is its front door. On a runtime that runs saved workflows, run the script at <repository root>/.claude/workflows/council.js when that file exists, otherwise ~/.claude/workflows/council.js (delivered by genie install / genie update); give the runtime that explicit script path, never a bare name — both scopes now carry these names and the order a name resolves in is undocumented. Pass the decision as a string or {decision, constraints?, evidence?, unknowns?}, and relay the returned report unchanged; lenses that returned nothing are listed under notConvened and were never averaged in. On a runtime without a workflow surface, dispatch the lenses below by hand with the same brief; the roster and both response shapes are the workflow's and must not diverge from it.

Dispatch

Choose the lenses the decision needs from the set below, sized to its stakes: Dissent is always included, and at least one other lens supplies independent evidence. Send each chosen lens to its own subagent through the runtime's native delegation surface, in parallel where supported. Every lens receives the same decision statement, constraints, evidence, and explicit unknowns — and nothing else. The session transcript, the emerging consensus, and another lens's answer stay outside the brief, because a lens that reads the room returns an echo instead of evidence. Lenses that run on one model family through one runtime are role-separated, not independent; say so when reporting, alongside the lenses that did not answer.

  • Architecture — contracts, coupling, failure modes, operability, long-term cost.
  • Delivery — sequencing, testability, migration, rollback, evidence required to ship.
  • Product — user value, usability, scope discipline, compatibility.
  • Security — trust boundaries, permissions, data exposure, abuse cases.
  • Dissent — the strongest evidence-backed case against the emerging consensus.
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Lens response

text
Verdict: support | support-with-conditions | oppose | insufficient-evidence
Confidence: low | medium | high
Key evidence:
- ...
Risks or objections:
- ...
Required conditions:
- ...
Unknowns:
- ...

A dissenting finding is preserved verbatim in the dissenting lens's own words and attributed to it. It is never paraphrased into agreement, folded into the consensus line, or deleted because the majority disagrees.

Synthesis

text
Decision: proceed | proceed-with-conditions | revise | stop | gather-evidence
Consensus: <where the lenses agree>
Dissent: <minority positions, attributed by lens>
Conditions: <concrete prerequisites>
Evidence gaps: <unknowns that could change the decision>
Next action: <one bounded next step>

The synthesizer integrates; it does not assess. It writes its own reading of the decision before the consensus line, so the summary is not an echo of the loudest lens, and it introduces no finding traceable to no lens report. Agreement between lenses is signal: repeated findings are counted, not compressed away as overlap. Explain how conflicts were resolved. If evidence is insufficient, say so rather than manufacturing consensus. End after the assessment unless mutation was explicitly authorized.

© automagik-dev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/council of automagik-dev/genie.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit f07c26f

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Questions about Council

What does Council do?

Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested. Council is an agent skill from automagik-dev/genie. Assess a proposal through independent technical, product, risk, and dissenting lenses, then synthesize a decision without mutating unless explicitly requested.

When should I use Council?

Council fits situations like: agent Workflows work in your project.

How do I install Council in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill council -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/council in automagik-dev/genie) into .claude/skills/council in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Council in Codex?

Run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill council -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/council in automagik-dev/genie) into .agents/skills/council in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Council in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add automagik-dev/genie --skill council -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/council, .gemini/skills/council, .github/skills/council and .opencode/skills/council in your project.

What does Council need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Council is instructions for the agent only.

Does Council access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Council safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Council use?

Council is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Council use?

About 976 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Council?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Council: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Using Superpowers (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars) and Executing Plans Inline (obra/superpowers, 296k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Council?

automagik-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in automagik-dev/genie, which has 346 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: automagik-dev/genie on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.