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Consciousness Council

Summons 4–6 distinct thinking archetypes to debate your hard question, then synthesizes the tension into an actionable recommendation.

UtilitiesBeginner★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Give it a tough decision or an open-ended problem and Claude convenes a 'council' of deliberately clashing perspectives instead of handing you one flat answer.

  • Phase 1 — Summon: picks 4–6 of 12 archetypes (Architect, Contrarian, Empiricist, Ethicist, Futurist, Pragmatist, Historian, Empath, Outsider, Strategist, Minimalist, Creator) using a question-type heuristic.
  • Phase 2 — Deliberation: each member gives Position → Reasoning → Key Risk → Surprising Insight, and must substantively disagree with at least one peer.
  • Phase 3 — Synthesis: convergence points, the core unresolved tension, the blind spot nobody named, a recommended path, a confidence level, and one question to sit with.

Modes include quick council, deep council, anonymous council (reduces anchoring), devil's advocate mode, and multi-round debate.

Who it's for

  • Anyone circling the same decision without progress (career moves, pivots, big purchases)
  • Founders and PMs stress-testing a strategy before presenting it
  • Solo operators with no colleague to push back on them
  • Writers, teachers and researchers mining a topic for multiple angles

Examples

  1. Career call — "Should I quit my stable job to start a company? Council mode." → Pragmatist, Futurist, Empath, Contrarian and Strategist collide and expose the real trade-off.
  2. Architecture debate — "Deep council: split our monolith into microservices?" → Architect vs. Minimalist head-on, with the Empiricist demanding actual metrics.
  3. Policy review — "Devil's advocate mode on rolling out AI employee monitoring." → Every member argues against the intuitive answer, surfacing hidden downside risk.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/consciousness-council folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/consciousness-council/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git /tmp/scientific-agent-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/scientific-agent-skills/skills/consciousness-council ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash on Windows).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/consciousness-council ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify it landed: ls ~/.claude/skills/consciousness-council/SKILL.md
  6. Restart Claude Code and say "run a mind council on this decision" to trigger it.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT