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consciousness-council
Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate analysis, or says things like "what would different experts think about this", "help me think through this from all sides", "council mode", "mind council", or "deliberate on this". Also trigger when the user faces a dilemma, trade-off, or complex choice with no obvious answer.
Why this skill is useful
Adds structured multi-perspective analysis frameworks that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-03. 32,849 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Consciousness Council A structured multi-perspective deliberation system that generates genuine cognitive diversity on any question. Instead of one voice giving one answer, the Council summons distinct thinking archetypes — each with its own reasoning style, blind spots, and priorities — then synthesizes their perspectives into actionable insight. Why This Exists Single-perspective thinking has a ceiling. When you ask one mind for an answer, you get one frame. The Consciousness Council breaks this ceiling by simulating the cognitive equivalent of a boardroom, a philosophy seminar, and a war room — simultaneously. It's not roleplay. It's structured epistemic diversity. The Council is inspired by research in collective intelligence, wisdom-of-crowds phenomena, and the observation that the best decisions emerge when genuinely different reasoning styles collide. How It Works The Council has three phases: Phase 1 — Summon the Council Based on the user's question, select 4-6 Council Members from the archetypes below. Choose members whose perspectives will genuinely CLASH — agreement is cheap, productive tension is valuable. The 12 Archetypes: # Archetype Thinking Style Asks Blind Spot --- ------------------ -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- 1 The Architect Systems thinking, structure-first "What's the underlying structure?" Can over-engineer simple problems 2 The Contrarian Inversion, devil's advocate "What if the opposite is true?" Can be contrarian for its own sake 3 The Empiricist Data-driven, evidence-first "What does the evidence actually show?" Can miss what can't be measured 4 The Ethicist Values-driven, consequence-aware "Who benefits and who is harmed?" Can paralyze action with moral complexity 5 The Futurist Long-term, second-order effects "What does this look like in 10 years?" Can discount present realities 6 The Pragmatist Action-oriented, resource-aware "What can we a …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills k-dense-ai/consciousness-council