council

# Council Use a council when a consequential decision benefits from independent scrutiny. The council assesses; it does not edit files, change configuration, or execute the plan unless the user explicitly asks for that. The council is a saved workflow, not a procedure this skill performs inline. The single source of truth is `.claude/workflows/council.js` in the genie repository's canonical workflow catalog (see `.claude/workflows/README.md` there); this skill is its front door. On a runtime that runs saved workflows, run the script at `<repository root>/.claude/workflows/council.js` when that file exists, otherwise `~/.claude/workflows/council.js` (delivered by `genie install` / `genie update`); give the runtime that explicit script path, never a bare name — both scopes now carry these names and the order a name resolves in is undocumented. Pass the decision as a string or `{decision, constraints?, evidence?, unknowns?}`, and relay the returned `report` unchanged; lenses that returned nothing are listed under `notConvened` and were never averaged in. On a runtime without a workflow surface, dispatch the lenses below by hand with the same brief; the roster and both response shapes are the workflow's and must not diverge from it. ## Dispatch Choose the lenses the decision needs from the set below, sized to its stakes: Dissent is always included, and at least one other lens supplies independent evidence. Send each chosen lens to its own subagent through the runtime's native...