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The Council — AI skill for Claude Code

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Three-tier AI agent MCP orchestration system: Chancellor (Opus), Executor (Sonnet), Aide (Haiku).

How to install The Council

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open iamvirul/the-council and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What The Council does

Three-tier AI agent MCP orchestration system: Chancellor (Opus), Executor (Sonnet), Aide (Haiku).

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README

The Council

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A four-tier AI agent orchestration system built as a Claude Code MCP server.

The Council is a TypeScript [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server with four Claude agents. When you give it a problem, it figures out the complexity and sends it to the right agents. A formatting task goes straight to the fast Aide (Haiku). A coding task goes to the Executor (Sonnet). A design or architecture problem first goes through the Chancellor (Opus) for a plan, then the Executor runs each step, delegating simple sub-tasks to the Aide. After each Executor or Aide output, the Supervisor (Haiku) acts as an active quality gate — rejecting outputs that miss the mark and triggering a retry with its feedback attached, up to a configurable limit.

Sub-agents run via the `claude` CLI — the same one Claude Code uses. **If you already have Claude Code installed, no separate API key or extra cost is needed.** The install script finds the `claude` binary and wires it up automatically. Alternatively, set `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in the MCP server env for CI or API-key-based setups.