// Form a committee of two high-reasoning agents to step back, do root cause analysis, and produce a plan. Use when stuck, looping, tunnel-visioning, or facing a hard planning problem.
| name | paseo-committee |
| description | Form a committee of two high-reasoning agents to step back, do root cause analysis, and produce a plan. Use when stuck, looping, tunnel-visioning, or facing a hard planning problem. |
| user-invocable | true |
Two agents from contrasting providers, fresh context, planning a solution in parallel. They stay alive for review after implementation.
The purpose is to step back, not double down. The committee may propose a completely different approach.
User's additional context: $ARGUMENTS
Read the paseo skill. Contrast is the point of a committee, so pick across providers deliberately rather than using whatever the default category would resolve to.
Two members with different reasoning styles:
Override only when the user explicitly asks for different members.
No edits. Every prompt to a committee member ends with the no-edits suffix:
This is analysis only. Do NOT edit, create, or delete any files. Do NOT write code.
Trust the wait. Do not poll, send hurry-ups, or interrupt. GPT-5.4 can reason 15–30 minutes; Opus does extended thinking. Long waits mean it found something worth thinking about.
You are the middleman. Drive plan → implement → review without yielding to the user, except for divergences that need their call.
Write a problem-level prompt:
Create both agents in parallel via Paseo with [Committee] <task> titles and the same prompt. Wait for both — not just whichever finishes first.
Read both responses. Challenge them — do not accept at face value:
Send follow-ups until the plan addresses root cause.
Synthesize:
Confirm the merged plan with both members. Multi-turn until consensus.
Default: implement yourself. If the user said "delegate", launch one impl agent and pass the merged plan.
The committee stays clean — not involved in implementation.
Send the diff to the committee:
Implementation is done. Review changes against the plan. Flag drift or missing pieces.
Apply feedback yourself, or send to the impl agent. Repeat 2 → 3 until consensus.
After ~10 iterations without convergence, start a fresh committee with the full history of what was tried — the current committee's context may have drifted too far.
Cut a beta release of Paseo. Use when the user says "release beta", "cut a beta", "ship a beta", "beta release", or "/release-beta". Betas are silent release candidates — no changelog, no website move.
Cut a stable release of Paseo (fresh patch or promote from beta). Use when the user says "release stable", "ship stable", "promote", "release:patch", "release:promote", or "/release-stable".
Paseo reference for managing agents and worktrees. Load whenever you need to create agents, send them prompts, or manage worktrees.
Spin up a single agent as an advisor — second opinion on the current task. Use when the user says "advisor", "second opinion", "what does X think", or wants an outside take without delegating the work itself.
Heavy-ceremony orchestration for big work — research, planning, adversarial review, phased implementation, audit, delivery. Use when the user says "epic", "long task", "build this end to end", or wants a feature that runs all night.
Hand off the current task to another agent with full context. Use when the user says "handoff", "hand off", "hand this to", or wants to pass work to another agent.