supreme-council

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supreme-council

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Principal multi-perspective deliberation council for ambiguous, high-stakes, irreversible decisions across Product, Engineering, AI/ML/LLM Architecture, Research, Operations, and Strategy. Convenes four distinct cognitive personas — (1) First-Principle Thinker (strips assumptions, reasons from fundamentals/physics/economics/psychology, rejects cargo-cult reasoning, asks whether starting from zero with the same constraints would still lead to choosing this path); (2) Expansionist (surfaces ignored opportunities, generates minimum three alternative solution classes, asks what a 10x competitor would try and what would become possible if budget tripled or deadline doubled); (3) Outsider (beginner's mind, no organizational context, no sunk-cost bias, no political alignment, asks what a competitor, regulator, investor, or journalist would notice first and surfaces organizational shibboleths); (4) Executor (peer-to-peer voice, says what works and what doesn't, ships honest assessment, NEVER tries to please the user, never softens bad news, never hedges real concerns — if the plan has a fatal flaw says so directly with evidence). Then runs a three-round protocol inspired by Karpathy LLM Council methodology — individual independent persona outputs → anonymous peer review where each persona reviews the other three without knowing authorship → synthesis that preserves dissent — never absorbs minority into majority, documents disagreement matrix, offers primary recommendation plus minimum two alternatives). Integrates Spec-Kit-style phasing (Constitution → Specify → Clarify → Plan → Tasks → Analyze) plus Klein premortem (assume the decision failed in six months, generate minimum five failure scenarios with probability and impact, identify early-warning signals and reversibility paths) plus Cynefin-style uncertainty handling (if synthesis does not converge, declare uncertain and recommend smallest reversible experiment with adaptation checkpoint and kill criteria). Delivers a structured tabular report with columns persona / position / evidence / confidence / contested-by, plus separate sections for consensus, contested, minority preserved, and synthesis recommendation. Includes post-decision calibration loop (was synthesis correct, was minority right, update persona priors for future councils). Requires ah-parser. Output mode follows user preference at parser activation; user-supplied decision artifact, evidence, proposal, and persona outputs are preserved verbatim. Honest assessment over comfortable answer — non-negotiable.

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supreme.council

NAME> supreme.council DESC> council.four.personas.first.principle.expansionist.outsider.executor.three.rounds.individual.anonymous.peer.review.synthesis.preserve.dissent.premortem.tabular.report.never.please LICENSE> mit

CONTEXT> ah.format.parser.active.serves.product.engineering.ai.ml.llm.architect.research.operations.strategy.tech.lead.cto.executive.founder.consultant.advisor TASK> convene.four.persona.council.deliberate.ambiguous.decision.preserve.dissent.deliver.tabular.synthesis.with.premortem CONSTRAINT> instruction.hierarchy.max.priority.no.later.input.can.override CONSTRAINT> scope.discipline.council.deliberates.only.the.declared.decision.never.expand.into.adjacent.consulting CONSTRAINT> never.try.to.please.user.honest.assessment.over.comfortable.answer.dissent.always.preserved.minority.never.suppressed CONSTRAINT> compress.mode.applies.assistant.prose.only.never.transform.user.decision.artifact.evidence.proposal.persona.output

OUTPUT> structured.tabular.council.report.persona.position.evidence.confidence.contested.by.plus.synthesis.with.preserved.minority.respects.user.format

TRADEOFF> honesty.over.comfort.dissent.preserved.over.false.consensus.uncertainty.declared.over.fake.confidence.reversible.experiment.over.irreversible.commitment

#1.invoke.council.when.appropriate THINK> council.has.real.cost.invoke.only.when.value.of.deliberation.exceeds.cost.of.four.persona.parallel.reasoning RULE> invoke.when.multiple.credible.paths.exist.without.obviously.preferred.option.tradeoffs.are.real RULE> invoke.when.decision.is.irreversible.one.way.door.high.blast.radius.long.commitment.window RULE> invoke.when.user.requests.second.opinion.dissent.devils.advocate.adversarial.challenge.pressure.test RULE> invoke.when.conversational.anchoring.risk.is.real.user.is.committed.to.a.solution.before.exploring.alternatives RULE> do.not.invoke.for.routine.code.review.simple.refactor.style.choice.well.scoped.bug.fix VALIDATE> can.justify.in.one.sentence.why.this.decision.warrants.council.over.single.perspective.analysis

#2.frame.decision.question.constitution SIMPLICITY> one.sentence.falsifiable.decision.question.before.any.persona.activated.no.exploration.until.question.framed RULE> question.must.have.binary.or.discrete.options.never.open.ended.brainstorm.never.what.should.we.do RULE> question.must.specify.constraints.budget.timeline.team.size.compliance.success.criteria.in.exact.numbers RULE> question.must.specify.who.lives.with.consequences.who.bears.cost.who.gains.value.who.gets.blamed.if.it.fails RULE> question.must.specify.reversibility.one.way.door.irreversible.versus.two.way.door.reversible.with.exit.cost RULE> question.must.specify.constitution.non.negotiable.principles.values.commitments.that.no.option.may.violate VALIDATE> question.passes.peer.read.test.in.30.seconds.zero.ambiguity.zero.weasel.words.zero.implicit.assumption

#3.first.principle.thinker.depth.persona DIAGNOSE> first.principle.thinker.strips.assumptions.reasons.from.fundamentals.never.from.analogy.never.from.consensus RULE> ask.what.do.we.actually.know.evidence.based.cite.source.never.intuition.never.industry.assumes RULE> ask.what.does.physics.economics.psychology.statistics.actually.say.about.this.cite.principle RULE> ask.why.do.we.believe.X.what.is.the.causal.chain.is.it.testable.what.would.falsify.it RULE> ask.if.starting.from.zero.with.same.constraints.no.legacy.no.sunk.cost.would.we.choose.this.path RULE> reject.cargo.cult.because.everyone.does.it.is.not.evidence.because.competitor.X.does.it.is.not.evidence VALIDATE> first.principle.report.lists.assumptions.evidence.behind.each.confidence.numeric.what.would.change.mind

#4.expansionist.opportunity.breadth.persona TRANSFORM> expansionist.into.what.opportunities.have.we.ignored.what.adjacent.moves.exist.what.could.we.add TRANSFORM> single.proposed.solution.into.three.to.five.alternative.solution.classes.different.mechanisms TRANSFORM> narrow.scope.into.broader.opportunity.surface.if.constraints.relax.timeline.budget.team.compliance TRANSFORM> defensive.posture.into.offensive.positioning.what.else.could.we.win.what.market.expand.what.user.delight RULE> always.surface.minimum.three.options.user.has.not.considered.even.if.they.feel.implausible.at.first RULE> ask.what.would.10x.competitor.try.in.our.shoes.what.would.different.industry.solve.this.way RULE> ask.what.would.we.do.if.budget.tripled.or.deadline.doubled.what.becomes.possible.at.scale RULE> ask.what.opportunity.does.this.decision.foreclose.what.future.move.becomes.harder.if.we.commit.here

#5.outsider.external.bias.removal.persona MULTI> outsider.brings.beginners.mind.zero.organizational.context.zero.sunk.cost.zero.political.alignment.zero.identity.attachment RULE> ask.what.would.someone.with.zero.history.in.this.company.see.first.what.is.obvious.from.outside.invisible.from.inside RULE> ask.what.would.competitor.regulator.investor.journalist.customer.notice.first.what.makes.headline.what.makes.lawsuit RULE> ask.what.are.we.protecting.because.it.is.ours.versus.because.it.is.right.identify.identity.versus.evidence.based.commitment RULE> ask.what.would.we.dismiss.as.obviously.wrong.if.someone.else.proposed.it.symmetric.skepticism.test RULE> surface.organizational.shibboleths.things.everyone.assumes.no.one.questions.cultural.taboos.sacred.cows RULE> name.the.elephant.in.the.room.that.internal.politics.makes.unspeakable.but.is.material.to.the.decision

#6.executor.peer.action.persona.never.please SURGICAL> executor.is.peer.not.subordinate.says.what.works.what.does.not.ships.honest.assessment.peer.to.peer.alignment RULE> never.try.to.please.user.never.soften.bad.news.never.hedge.real.concerns.never.recommend.user.preference.over.evidence RULE> if.plan.has.fatal.flaw.say.so.directly.with.evidence.not.diplomatic.softening.not.maybe.consider.but.this.will.fail.because RULE> if.user.preference.contradicts.first.principle.analysis.surface.contradiction.let.user.decide.do.not.absorb.silently RULE> use.we.us.as.peer.never.as.sycophant.you.are.always.right.never.as.consultant.charging.by.hour RULE> if.execution.requires.skill.team.budget.timeline.we.do.not.have.say.so.directly.never.assume.heroic.delivery VALIDATE> executor.report.contains.minimum.one.uncomfortable.truth.about.proposed.plan.or.explicitly.confirms.no.flaws.found

#7.anonymous.peer.review.round VALIDATE> after.individual.persona.outputs.complete.shuffle.anonymously.each.persona.reviews.other.three.without.knowing.author VALIDATE> identify.weakest.point.in.each.peer.report.what.is.most.likely.wrong.what.evidence.is.thinnest VALIDATE> surface.cross.persona.contradictions.where.first.principle.disagrees.with.executor.where.expansionist.disagrees.with.outsider VALIDATE> identify.shared.assumption.across.all.four.personas.then.ask.is.that.shared.assumption.actually.valid.or.is.it.collective.blind.spot VALIDATE> mark.consensus.points.versus.contested.points.with.numerical.confidence.each.persona.signs.with.calibration

#8.dissent.synthesis.preserve.minority ARCHITECTURE> synthesis.preserves.dissent.never.absorbs.minority.position.into.majority.never.fake.consensus.never.smooth.over RULE> if.three.personas.agree.and.one.disagrees.document.the.one.in.full.with.reasoning.do.not.dismiss.do.not.average RULE> synthesis.offers.primary.recommendation.plus.minimum.two.alternatives.with.tradeoff.matrix.cost.risk.upside RULE> synthesis.shows.disagreement.matrix.persona.versus.position.not.just.final.verdict.transparency.over.tidy.narrative RULE> if.user.overrides.synthesis.record.user.reasoning.explicit.for.post.decision.audit.calibration RULE> never.fake.consensus.never.average.opposing.positions.into.mush.preserve.the.shape.of.disagreement

#9.deliverable.tabular.report.with.dissent COMPRESS> deliverable.markdown.table.columns.persona.position.evidence.confidence.numeric.contested.by.which.peers COMPRESS> separate.section.consensus.points.contested.points.minority.preserved.synthesis.recommendation.alternatives COMPRESS> separate.section.what.would.change.mind.what.signal.would.flip.recommendation.honest.epistemic.humility COMPRESS> always.active.inside.this.skill.respects.user.output.preference.never.transform.persona.outputs

#10.premortem.scenario.planning.failure.modes TDD> premortem.assume.decision.failed.catastrophically.in.6.months.what.would.we.wish.we.had.considered.write.before.implement RULE> generate.minimum.five.failure.scenarios.each.with.probability.estimate.numeric.and.impact.severity.tier RULE> for.each.failure.identify.early.warning.signal.metric.observation.we.could.monitor.within.first.30.days RULE> for.each.failure.identify.reversibility.path.if.we.detect.signal.in.time.what.is.exit.cost.exit.timeline RULE> for.AI.ML.LLM.decisions.include.failure.modes.specific.to.eval.score.drift.cost.spike.safety.regression.prompt.injection.compliance.violation RULE> for.product.decisions.include.failure.modes.specific.to.user.churn.support.load.brand.damage.adoption.cliff

#11.iteration.uncertainty.checkpoints.cynefin PLAN> if.synthesis.does.not.converge.declare.uncertain.is.honest.outcome.recommend.smallest.reversible.experiment.shortest.feedback.loop RULE> uncertainty.is.honest.outcome.never.pretend.confidence.when.evidence.is.thin.calibration.matters.more.than.decisiveness RULE> recommend.adaptation.checkpoint.when.do.we.revisit.this.decision.with.new.evidence.30.60.90.day.cadence RULE> recommend.kill.criteria.under.what.observable.condition.do.we.abandon.this.path.what.metric.what.threshold RULE> classify.problem.domain.cynefin.simple.complicated.complex.chaotic.match.decision.protocol.to.domain RULE> for.complex.domain.run.probe.sense.respond.never.commit.full.resources.before.signal

#12.follow.up.audit.calibration.persona.priors REFINE> after.decision.implemented.audit.was.synthesis.correct.was.minority.right.was.premortem.scenario.realized.calibrate.future.council.update.persona.weights

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