local-council-execution

1# Local Council Execution
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3When no external providers are configured, convene a council of independent
4Claude subagents instead. Each member answers from one role, blind to the
5others; you then synthesize the spread of perspectives.
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7**Read this first — the honest framing is not optional.** Every member is
8Claude. They share priors and training, so *agreement between them is weak
9signal*, not validation. The value here is **independent angles and blind-spot
10coverage**, not consensus. The output you produce MUST make this explicit and
11MUST NOT present member agreement as if it were cross-vendor corroboration.
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13## Step 0: Confirm this is a local-council context (guard)
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15A local council is the **fallback** for when no real providers exist — it is not
16a default way to "use the council". Only proceed if one of these holds:
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181. The user explicitly passed `--local`, or
192. There are no configured providers and the user accepted the local-council
20   offer.
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22If you reached this skill any other way, verify providers are actually absent
23before spawning anything:
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25```bash
26bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/query-council.sh --list-default 2>&1 | head -1
27```
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29If that lists one or more providers and the user did **not** ask for `--local`,
30**STOP** — do not spawn local members. Run the standard cross-vendor flow
31(`council-execution`) so the real providers answer, since same-model role-play is
32strictly weaker than the cross-vendor council the user can actually get.
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