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Council

Council

Convene a panel of AI experts that deliberate, disagree, and remember — without leaving your terminal.
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A single chatbot gives you one confident answer. Council convenes a structured panel — experts challenge each other, a moderator keeps them honest, and you walk away with a synthesis you can defend.

Runs on GitHub Copilot today · OpenAI and Anthropic planned

Your first session

From install to a decision in four commands

Every command below runs today. Council auto-composes a panel, runs a structured debate, and persists the full transcript locally — so you can export it, share it, or revisit it later.

bash — your first council 
# Install — requires Node.js 24+ and a GitHub Copilot subscription
$ npm install -g @council-ai/cli

# Check that Council can reach the Copilot engine
$ council doctor

# Convene a panel — Council designs the experts from your topic
$ council convene "Should we adopt event sourcing for our orders service?"

# Review past debates, then export the decision as an ADR
$ council sessions
$ council export <panel> --format adr

Why Council

Built for decisions you have to defend

Persistent panels & memory

Experts, panels, and full debate transcripts persist in a local SQLite database, so each debate builds on the last instead of starting cold.

Anti-sycophancy quality gate

Devil's-advocate and consensus-check moderation strategies force genuine disagreement — a stress-tested answer instead of agreeable mush.

Decisions you can export

Turn any debate into Markdown, JSON, an Architecture Decision Record, or a launch-ready share document with one command.

Document-grounded deliberation

Link your own reference documents to a panel and experts argue from your facts — retrieval-augmented debate, grounded in your sources.

How it works

Three steps from question to decision

  1. Define a panel

    Let Council auto-compose experts from your topic, or pick a built-in template like code-review or architecture-review.

  2. Convene the debate

    Experts deliberate in rounds and challenge each other while a moderator drives toward synthesis. Need a quick take? Ask one expert with council ask, or hold a conversation with council chat.

  3. Export the decision

    Capture the outcome as an ADR or share-ready document with council export — a decision your team can actually review.

Use cases

Where a council beats a single opinion

  • Architecture reviews Pressure-test a design and its trade-offs before you commit code to it.
  • Product & strategy trade-offs Weigh build-vs-buy, pricing, and roadmap bets from finance, product, and engineering lenses.
  • Hiring debriefs Structure a panel debrief instead of defaulting to the loudest voice in the room.
  • Pricing decisions Model the upside and the margin risk before you change a number customers see.
Council COUNCIL

Convene your first council

Runs on GitHub Copilot today — no API keys, no OpenAI account, no credits to manage. OpenAI and Anthropic providers are on the roadmap.

npm install -g @council-ai/cli

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