Chat with a panel
Use council chat with a panel name for an ongoing group conversation where all experts participate.
Start panel chat
Section titled “Start panel chat”council chat strategy-reviewCouncil resolves the panel’s experts, indexes any documents in the panel’s docs folder, and drops you into an interactive REPL:
📋 Starting group chat with strategy-review (3 experts: Sarah Chen, Marcus Cole, Priya Mehta) — use @name to address specific expertsℹ Type /exit or /quit to save and end the conversation.
You> What should our Q4 priorities be given the competitive landscape?
[Sarah Chen — VP Strategy]Given the recent moves by our top two competitors, I'd focus on three things...
[Marcus Cole — Devil's Advocate]Before we lock in priorities, let's challenge the assumption that we need toreact to competitors at all...
[Priya Mehta — Customer Research]I'd reframe this around what our customers are actually asking for...
You>Every expert responds to each message. The conversation persists — exit with /exit or /quit and pick up where you left off next time.
Interrupt a response
Section titled “Interrupt a response”Press Ctrl+C to abort an expert mid-response. The partial output is saved and you return to the You> prompt.
Document retrieval
Section titled “Document retrieval”If the panel has documents in its docs/ folder, Council indexes them automatically:
ℹ Indexed 3 panel document(s) (0 unchanged, 0 failed).📋 Starting group chat with strategy-review (3 experts)...See Review documents in chat for details.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Direct message experts — use
@mentionsto route messages - Trigger inline deliberation — use
@convenefor structured debate - Chat with a single expert — for 1:1 conversations