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Agent skill

Council Verdicts

by nyldn in nyldn/claude-octopus

Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next

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Install Council Verdicts

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill council-verdicts -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nyldn/claude-octopus council-verdicts --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/nyldn/claude-octopus.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts .claude/skills/council-verdicts && 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-verdicts
GitHub stars
4.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~484 tokens
SKILL.md length
263 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
62
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next

  • Works in 5 steps: Locate artifacts. Find the newest… → Check roster validity. From… → Tally the verdicts. Report the raw count… → …
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Steps and Guardrails
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Council Verdicts is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus. Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next

Its SKILL.md is about 480 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

The repository describes itself as: Run multiple AI models against the same research, design, or coding task. Surface disagreements before you ship. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/council-verdicts”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Locate artifacts. Find the newest council output under ~/.claude-octopus/results/ (look for summary.json and per-seat verdict files). If…
  2. Check roster validity. From summary.json, confirm each seat's real provider and model (the agy seat records its resolved model, not…
  3. Tally the verdicts. Report the raw count (APPROVE / REJECT / ABSTAIN / REVISE) and whether quorum was met. A malformed or missing verdict…
  4. Surface dissent. Quote the strongest dissenting argument verbatim. A 2-1 split with a substantive dissent is a weaker mandate than 3-0…
  5. Recommend the action. Map the tally to a next step: unanimous APPROVE means proceed; majority with dissent means proceed with the…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c812f5e. 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 Verdicts loads about 484 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 32 tokens; SKILL.md has 263 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~32
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~484

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 nyldn/claude-octopus at commit c812f5e, republished under its MIT licence (© nyldn). 263 words, ~484 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/council-verdicts/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
council-verdicts
description
Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next
disable-model-invocation
true

Council Verdict Interpretation (Starter Pack)

Read a completed council run's artifacts and explain what the verdicts actually mean before anyone acts on them.

When to use

A /octo:council run has finished and the user asks "so what did the council decide?" or pastes a summary.json path.

Steps

  1. Locate artifacts. Find the newest council output under ~/.claude-octopus/results/ (look for summary.json and per-seat verdict files). If none exist within the session window, say so; never invent a verdict.
  2. Check roster validity. From summary.json, confirm each seat's real provider and model (the agy seat records its resolved model, not default). Flag same-lineage panels: two seats backed by the same model family weaken the verdict's independence.
  3. Tally the verdicts. Report the raw count (APPROVE / REJECT / ABSTAIN / REVISE) and whether quorum was met. A malformed or missing verdict from a seat counts as ABSTAIN, and the SubagentStop gate (hooks/subagent-stop-gate.sh) may have flagged it; check the gate's usage log for quality scores.
  4. Surface dissent. Quote the strongest dissenting argument verbatim. A 2-1 split with a substantive dissent is a weaker mandate than 3-0; say which one this is.
  5. Recommend the action. Map the tally to a next step: unanimous APPROVE means proceed; majority with dissent means proceed with the dissent's concern as a follow-up item; majority REJECT means do not proceed and list what would change the outcome.

Guardrails

  • Verdicts gate decisions; they do not execute them. Never auto-apply a council outcome to code.
  • If seats disagree on facts (not judgment), the run is inconclusive; recommend a re-run with the factual dispute resolved first.

© nyldn, 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/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts of nyldn/claude-octopus.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c812f5e

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in nyldn/claude-octopus, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Council Verdicts

What does Council Verdicts do?

Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next. Council Verdicts is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus.

How do I install Council Verdicts in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Council Verdicts in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill council-verdicts -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts in nyldn/claude-octopus) into .agents/skills/council-verdicts in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Council Verdicts 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 nyldn/claude-octopus --skill council-verdicts -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-verdicts, .gemini/skills/council-verdicts, .github/skills/council-verdicts and .opencode/skills/council-verdicts in your project.

What does Council Verdicts need to run?

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

Does Council Verdicts 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 Verdicts 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 Verdicts use?

Council Verdicts 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 Verdicts use?

About 484 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k 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 Verdicts?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Council Verdicts: Council (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Council (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Council (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars) and Artifacts Builder (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Council Verdicts?

nyldn (a GitHub user) maintains it in nyldn/claude-octopus, which has 4,200 GitHub stars. The repository holds 62 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

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