orca-model-council

name	orca-model-council
description	Run a five-subagent council with independent first opinions, anonymized peer critique, and a final chair synthesis.

ORCA Model Council

What This Skill Is

A reusable ORCA Framework deliberation pattern adapted from the LLM Council idea: multiple subagents answer independently, review each other anonymously, and a parent chair synthesizes the final judgment.

This is for hard judgment calls, not routine execution.

Trigger

Use when the user wants:

• serious brainstorming instead of one-shot ideation
• a better product or business idea
• feature evaluation before implementation
• market or wedge evaluation
• a multi-angle written judgment with explicit disagreement

Do Not Trigger

Do not use when:

• the task is already a straightforward implementation job
• one clear research or planning pass is enough
• the extra orchestration would add more ceremony than insight
• the user needs a quick answer, not a council

Council Shape

Default council size: 5 subagents plus 1 parent chair.

The parent talks to the user. The five workers do not.

Use role diversity, not model-brand theater. When native subagents are unavailable, preserve the same council structure as sequential pseudo-subagents with isolated context packets.

Default Deliberation Stages

Stage 1: First Opinions

Spin up 5 subagents in parallel when possible. Each one receives:

• the same core question
• the same constraints
• the same artifact goal
• its own role framing

Each subagent returns:

• initial answer
• strongest supporting reasoning
• biggest uncertainty
• provisional recommendation

Stage 2: Anonymous Peer Review

Anonymize the stage-1 outputs as Response A-E.

Each subagent reviews the other responses, not its own. Require each reviewer to rank the responses and explain:

• which response best matches the actual decision
• which response is overconfident
• which response sees the biggest hidden risk
• what idea from another response should survive into the final synthesis

Stage 3: Chair Synthesis

The parent chair reads:

• all first opinions
• all peer critiques
• the aggregate ranking
• repeated disagreement patterns

Then produces:

• final synthesis
• direct recommendation
• main reasons
• strongest objections
• confidence level
• next action

Output Contract

Use:

• templates/council-brief.md
• templates/council-opinion.md
• templates/council-synthesis.md

The final output must preserve disagreement instead of flattening it into fake consensus.

Quality Bar

The council should produce a better decision, not just more words. A good council output makes tradeoffs, uncertainty, and the next action clearer than a single-agent answer would.

Common Failure Modes

• five workers saying the same thing in different words
• using role labels that do not change reasoning
• skipping anonymous critique and jumping straight to a summary
• hiding disagreement in a bland final synthesis
• treating average opinion as automatically correct

Relationship To Other ORCA Framework Skills And Commands

Works with orca-agent-orchestration, orca-business-ideation, orca-research, orca-plan-idea, and orca-evaluate-idea.