council

# council ## Purpose One coordination primitive that gathers N INDEPENDENT perspectives for any skill needing debate or multi-view judgment. Detects installed AI CLIs → fans a question across distinct model families → degrades gracefully to subagents when no bridge exists → gates off-topic/malformed voices → normalizes claims → **arbitrates INLINE** (no separate arbiter skill — single producer→single consumer is YAGNI). Council's entire value proposition is *decorrelated* model bias — two different architectures independently reaching the same conclusion is signal; two instances of the same model agreeing is an echo. council refuses to launder the second case as the first. <HARD-GATE> If fewer than 2 distinct real `model_family` values answered (excluding `is_fallback` voices AND voices with `model_family: "unknown"` — unconfirmed wrapper-CLI backends, see `references/dispatch-protocol.md` §Detect), council MUST stamp the run `NO_DECORRELATION` and the Arbitrate step MUST NOT use consensus language ("voices agree", "consensus view", "the panel concludes"). Say what happened instead: "N subagents of the same model family produced overlapping output — treat as one perspective, not independent confirmation." </HARD-GATE> ## Triggers - Called by `adversary` — Step 0.6, mode=critique, for plans flagged high-risk/critical-path/expensive-to-reverse - Called by `review` — Step 1.6, mode=review, when blast radius is 50+ callers with a HIGH-severity change - Called by `brainstorm...