war-council

Convenes a panel of expert personas to critique a decision before commitment.

Updated Jun 26, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/alectivism/organization-ai-skills --skill war-council-alectivism
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: war-council
Source: https://github.com/alectivism/organization-ai-skills/tree/main/org-agents-gpt/skills/war-council
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/alectivism/organization-ai-skills --skill war-council-alectivism

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Leaders often commit to consequential decisions on spend, hiring, positioning, or vendor choice without structured pushback, and a single AI response tends to agree with the asker. This Skill convenes a panel of opinionated expert personas that independently attack the decision's assumptions, then reconciles their disagreement into a verdict. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Decision Framing: Restates the decision, constraints, stakes, and a "what must be true" conditions list so the panel tests named assumptions instead of inventing problems. - Roster Building: Combines standing archetypes (Finance Skeptic, Contrarian, Customer Advocate, Operator) with dynamically generated domain experts tailored to the specific decision. - Parallel Independent Critique: Runs all members concurrently so they never see each other's answers, spreading models where the runtime allows per-spawn model selection. - Structured Verdict: Synthesizes positions, condition checks, agreements, clashes, and a confidence-weighted recommendation in a fixed report format. - Use Case: Before signing a vendor contract, ask for a war council; the panel stress-tests the pricing assumptions, the Operator flags rollout capacity, and the verdict names the one fact that would settle the disagreement. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to convene a war council on a decision you are about to make, including your current thinking, constraints, and stakes.

Frequently Asked Questions about war-council

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I get an AI to stress test a business decision?▼

Ask for a war council on the decision and provide your current thinking, constraints, and stakes. The skill frames the decision as a list of conditions that must be true, then has multiple expert personas attack those conditions independently before reconciling their disagreement into a verdict.

What is a war council for decision making?▼

A war council is a panel of named, opinionated expert personas who critique a decision independently and in parallel, then have their positions reconciled in the main conversation. It produces a structured verdict covering positions, condition checks, points of agreement and clash, and a confidence-weighted recommendation.

Does the war council skill work without subagent support?▼

Yes. If the runtime advertises no subagents, the skill role-plays each member sequentially in a single response and discloses that it did so, since sequential members can see each other's arguments and tend to converge.

When should I use a single critic instead of a war council?▼

Use a single critic such as the org-verifier skill when you want one focused review rather than multiple clashing perspectives. The war council is designed for consequential decisions where independent disagreement between diverse personas is the source of value.

What happens if the whole panel agrees with my decision?▼

The skill rebuilds the roster once to check for a missing opponent. If a genuinely diverse second roster also agrees and every condition survives scrutiny, it reports that agreement as the answer and stops rather than manufacturing dissent.