council

# Council Council is an optional judgment strategy for hard questions where contrasting perspectives can expose alternatives, assumptions, or missed evidence. Use it when the caller selects multiple views for brainstorming, architecture or planning, or validation. Name the uncertainty that makes the additional contexts useful; routine work needs no council. | Use | Ask each participant for | Return to the caller | |---|---|---| | Brainstorm | Distinct options, assumptions, and failure modes | Promising ideas and the objections worth testing | | Design or plan | A proposed approach, tradeoffs, and evidence | A recommendation with unresolved decisions visible | | Validate | Findings against the same subject and acceptance | Advisory findings for the accountable fresh validator | | Duel | Ranked ideas, then scores for every other member's ideas | Ideas ranked by cross-member agreement, score gaps and dissent | | Interview panel | An answer to each Interview question | Agreed and open answers the caller accepts or amends | 1. Freeze the question, constraints or acceptance, authorized evidence, and subject digest. Select participants, model pins, and real dispatch bounds. The caller may give each participant its own model, effort and perspective (for example architect, reliability, security or simplicity); the same model in separate contexts counts as separate participants on the roster, but their agreement still weighs as one model's confirmation (see Model-dive...