Polyclaude

PolyClaude

A council of distinct minds for Claude Code.

PolyClaude convenes a council on your question, plan, or idea. The members are six built-in cognitive lenses, or experts you name. Each one analyzes the question alone. Then they read each other's arguments and answer them: they challenge, concede, hold their ground, or change their minds. What survives is synthesized into a decision document.

The output isn't a list of opinions. It's a verdict, the consensus that held under challenge, what moved in cross-examination, the tensions that are real trade-offs, the blind spots nobody caught, and a confidence map.

Installation

Restart Claude Code after installing.

Updating

Then restart Claude Code.
Troubleshooting: If adding the marketplace fails with an SSH error, your machine is trying to use SSH for GitHub, but the keys aren't set up. Run this to force HTTPS:

Then add the marketplace again.

Usage

There are two ways in, and both run the same council:

Or just ask in conversation: "run this through the council", "red team this plan", "get a panel of experts on this".

Council size

--no-debate skips cross-examination at any size.

Expert panels

Name the council you want. PolyClaude builds a full member for each role: its own method, the questions it asks first, who on the panel it will push back on, and where it should defer.

Naming experts in plain words works the same as --panel. Someone always speaks for the people the decision lands on, unless you pass --exclude advocate.

Quality

Built-in lens control

Lens names: architect, skeptic, pragmatist, innovator, advocate, temporal. An excluded lens's seat passes to the next lens in line, so the council keeps its size.

Cost and time

Measured at API prices with an Opus main session and Sonnet members. The…