| name | search-council |
| description | Fan out a 4-member council (1 Codex thinking-high + 1 Gemini Pro + 1 Claude Opus + 1 ChatGPT Extended Pro) on a stalled re-attack. Preserves all four independent memos; hands off to the regular Strategy Searcher for pure selection. Opt-in (attempt ≥2), ~3× the cost of a single search. |
search-council
Canonical content: .claude/commands/search-council.md in this repo.
Codex and Claude Code share the same procedure — edit the Claude command
file, not this stub.
TL;DR for Codex sessions
Use only on attempt ≥2 when first-attempt routes stalled or the gatekeeper
flagged scope narrowing. Don't invoke on attempt 1 (the regular searcher is
sufficient when the dossier is empty).
Mechanics: the skill fans out four adapters in parallel from
scripts/council/, one per model architecture:
dispatch_codex.sh × 1 (Codex GPT-5.5 thinking-high, ephemeral session)dispatch_gemini.sh × 1 (latest Gemini Pro — the adapter passes no model
flag, so it tracks the Gemini CLI's built-in latest-Pro default; different
pretraining/RLHF lineage; requires the gemini CLI on PATH, see below)dispatch_opus.sh × 1 (different RLHF priors, surfaces cross-domain leaps)dispatch_extended_pro.sh × 1 (slowest member, 8-20 min — determines
council wall-clock)
All four adapters honor the same --packet-dir / --prompt / --out contract.
Each member writes an immutable memo (codex_memo.md, gemini_memo.md,
opus_memo.md, extended_pro_memo.md) to
{proof_repo}/runs/<run>/branches/<branch>/council/attempt-<N>/. Memos are
NEVER merged — they hand off as-is to the regular /submit-role searcher,
which runs in selection mode (pick 2-4 routes across all four memos, rank,
recommend).
If the Gemini CLI is not installed/authenticated, drop that member with
--skip-member gemini; the council proceeds with the remaining three. Install
with npm install -g @google/gemini-cli and authenticate once via gemini.
The council-member prompt is at
prompts/soft/03b_council_member_soft.md. Each member is asked for 2-3
routes to keep the searcher's total under ~12.
Read .claude/commands/search-council.md for the full step-by-step,
partial-completion handling, and cost-discipline guidance.
