nyldn/council-verdicts
skills/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts/SKILL.md
Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add nyldn/claude-octopus council-verdictsInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- council-verdicts
- disable-model-invocation:
- true
- description:
- Starter: interpret a council run's verdict artifacts — quorum, dissent, cross-lab validity, and what to do next
Council Verdict Interpretation (Starter Pack)
Read a completed council run's artifacts and explain what the verdicts actually mean before anyone acts on them.
When to use
A /octo:council run has finished and the user asks "so what did the council decide?" or pastes a summary.json path.
Steps
- Locate artifacts. Find the newest council output under
~/.claude-octopus/results/(look forsummary.jsonand per-seat verdict files). If none exist within the session window, say so; never invent a verdict. - Check roster validity. From
summary.json, confirm each seat's real provider and model (the agy seat records its resolved model, notdefault). Flag same-lineage panels: two seats backed by the same model family weaken the verdict's independence. - Tally the verdicts. Report the raw count (APPROVE / REJECT / ABSTAIN / REVISE) and whether quorum was met. A malformed or missing verdict from a seat counts as ABSTAIN, and the SubagentStop gate (
hooks/subagent-stop-gate.sh) may have flagged it; check the gate's usage log for quality scores. - Surface dissent. Quote the strongest dissenting argument verbatim. A 2-1 split with a substantive dissent is a weaker mandate than 3-0; say which one this is.
- Recommend the action. Map the tally to a next step: unanimous APPROVE means proceed; majority with dissent means proceed with the dissent's concern as a follow-up item; majority REJECT means do not proceed and list what would change the outcome.
Guardrails
- Verdicts gate decisions; they do not execute them. Never auto-apply a council outcome to code.
- If seats disagree on facts (not judgment), the run is inconclusive; recommend a re-run with the factual dispute resolved first.
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