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Council of High Intelligence

Structured multi-perspective deliberation for hard decisions across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenCode.

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What is Council of High Intelligence?

Council of High Intelligence is an open-source agent skill that convenes deliberately different analytical personas around a hard question, forces direct disagreement and returns a verdict with unresolved questions, dissent, kill criteria and the next concrete action. It runs as a plugin in Claude Code or via install scripts for Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenCode.

Pros

  • Forces structured disagreement before a decision
  • Works across multiple coding-agent clients
  • Open source and MIT licensed

Cons

  • Requires a supported CLI agent to be useful
  • Hard questions need careful framing
  • Best for advanced users comfortable with agent workflows

Who should use Council of High Intelligence

Developers, founders and teams who make high-stakes decisions inside AI coding agents and want structured debate.

Who may not need it

Casual users looking for a simple chatbot answer to an everyday question.

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