Maker Council

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Board of advisors
• What would Bezos do
• What would Jason Fried say
• Ask the council

Example prompts

• “should I raise prices?”
• “hire my first employee?”
• “raise or bootstrap?”
• “/maker-council”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1The question — what decision or situation is the council reviewing?
2. 2Context — stage, headcount, revenue shape, runway, what's been tried. Check memory (project_*.md) and…
3. 3The stakes — what happens if this goes well or badly?
4. 4Session mode — quick take, council session, or full council. Default: council session.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cc31579. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

  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

Maker Council loads about 2.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 223 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,234 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~223

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.9k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~10k

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

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 coreyhaines31/makerskills at commit cc31579, republished under its MIT licence (© coreyhaines31). 1,234 words, ~2,908 tokens.

name

maker-council

description

When you want multiple expert perspectives on a founder/operator question — a simulated board of advisors (Jason Fried, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Bob Iger, Paul Graham, Naval Ravikant, Sara Blakely). Bring a real decision — "should I raise prices?", "hire my first employee?", "raise or bootstrap?", "kill this project?" — and the council weighs in through documented frameworks, surfaces disagreements, and synthesizes a recommendation. Also use for 'maker council,' 'board of advisors,' 'what would Bezos do,' 'what would Jason Fried say,' 'channel Naval,' 'ask the council,' or how a famous founder would approach a problem. Optional live-research pass via deep-research / watch-video / last30days. Marketing questions go to marketing-skills' marketing-council. Archives to ~/.config/makerskills/maker-council/archive/. To commit to a direction, hand off to decide.

metadata.version

0.1.1

> Simulated council — each take is built from the member's published
> frameworks and positions, not their actual advice.

## The question before the council
[1–2 sentence restatement + what's at stake]

## Seated: [A], [B], [C] ([mode])
[One line on why this bench, including who's the dissenter]

---

### [Member A] — [their lens, 3–5 words]
[2–4 paragraph take]
**Bottom line:** [one sentence]

…

---

## Where the council disagrees
1. **[Conflict]** — [A] says X because [framework]; [B] says Y because
   [framework]. The real trade-off: [tension]. What would settle it:
   [evidence/test].

## Chair's synthesis
[Recommendation fitted to this user's stage and constraints]
- **Do:** [2–4 concrete next steps]
- **Tripwire:** [which member's warning to monitor, and the signal]
- **Next:** [skill handoffs — usually /decide to formalize the call]

- 2026-07-15 — [<question>](./<filename>.md) — seated: <members> — **<synthesis in one line>**

© coreyhaines31, 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 9 other files (references) in skills/maker-council of coreyhaines31/makerskills.

• SKILL.md
• references/advisor-template.md
• references/advisors/bob-iger.md
• references/advisors/elon-musk.md
• references/advisors/jason-fried.md
• references/advisors/jeff-bezos.md
• references/advisors/jensen-huang.md
• references/advisors/naval-ravikant.md
• references/advisors/paul-graham.md
• references/advisors/sara-blakely.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cc31579