How do I install the Council Verdicts skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add hashgraph-online/council-verdicts in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Council Verdicts safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Council Verdicts?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Council Verdicts free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Council Verdicts?

hashgraph-online (@hashgraph-online) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Council Verdicts by hashgraph-online

Name: Council Verdicts
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: hashgraph-online

File contents

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 for summary.json and 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, not default). 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.

Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins → plugins/nyldn/claude-octopus/skills/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts/SKILL.md

---name: council-verdictsdescription: 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 1. **Locate artifacts.** Find the newest council output under `~/.claude-octopus/results/` (look for `summary.json` and per-seat verdict files). If none exist within the session window, say so; never invent a verdict. 2. **Check roster validity.** From `summary.json`, confirm each seat's real provider and model (the agy seat records its resolved model, not `default`). Flag same-lineage panels: two seats backed by the same model family weaken the verdict's independence. 3. **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. 4. **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. 5. **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. --- **Source:** [`hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins`](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) → `plugins/nyldn/claude-octopus/skills/octopus-starter-pack/council-verdicts/SKILL.md`

Frequently asked questions

Council Verdicts