Council Of High Intelligence

Council of High Intelligence

  Structured multi-perspective deliberation for decisions that deserve more than one reasoning path.

  Claude Code · Codex · Gemini CLI · OpenCode

The council assigns a hard question to deliberately different analytical personas, keeps
their first positions independent, forces direct disagreement, and returns a verdict that
preserves unresolved questions, dissent, kill criteria, and the next concrete action.

Try a council

Claude Code users can install the plugin directly:

Then convene the full council, a faster panel, or a two-member dialectic:

For Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode, clone once and use the matching installer flag:

Restart the target client after installation. The command remains /council on every
supported host.

Use it for the decision boundary

Good council questions have material downside, competing values, incomplete evidence, or
an irreversible choice. Write down the decision, constraints, evidence, reversibility, and
deadline before adding personas.

The field notes distinguish facts from inference, assumptions, and unknowns. They also make
it harder to use a long deliberation as decoration for a decision already made.

When to use something smaller

- Use a direct answer or primary documentation for factual lookups.
- Run an experiment when the choice is cheap and reversible.
- Use --quick when cross-examination will not change the outcome.
- Use --duo when one tension matters more than broad coverage.
- Do not convene a council to manufacture support for a preferred answer.

Choose a mode

Named triads select three relevant lenses without assembling the whole council:

Available domains include architecture, strategy, ethics, debugging, risk,
shipping, product, founder, ai, ai-product, ai-safety, decision,…