research-council

name	research-council
description	SEG-powered philosophical deliberation council — multi-persona reasoning on complex decisions. Trigger phrase: "research council".

Research Council — hermes-ops Deployment Guide

Runtime skill: ~/.hermes/skills/autonomous-ai-agents/research-council/SKILL.md

The Research Council is a philosophical deliberation layer. When activated, it runs a SEG-powered multi-persona council session to explore a premise from multiple experiential lenses before work is dispatched.

Trigger

• "research council" — activates the philosophical council
• "council on <topic>" — starts a named council session

Personas (7 Replicants)

Replicant	Archetype	Role
Bayesian Sage	Rational updater	Probability and evidence weighting
Comedic Trickster	Chaos agent	Deflates certainty, surfaces hidden assumptions
Weil	Suffering witness	Who does this hurt?
Lessing	Historical dialectician	What did this look like before?
Dickinson	Lyric inward	What won't this say?
Philosopher	First-principles	What are the premises?
Coder	Systems builder	Does this actually run?

Deployment (hermes-ops)

Step 1 — Load the skill

The runtime skill lives in ~/.hermes/skills/autonomous-ai-agents/research-council/SKILL.md. No installation needed — Hermes loads it automatically when the trigger phrase is detected.

Step 2 — Activate

hermes profile chat --profile research-council

Or trigger mid-conversation:

User: "We need a council on the autonomous hiring system case"
→ SEG council activates automatically

Step 3 — Run the council session

Inside the profile, provide a premise. The council will:

1. Run 2 cycles of dialogic reasoning across all 7 replicants
2. Surface contradictions and veto-worthy patterns
3. Return a synthesis with named cases, formal constraints, and veto dispositions

Step 4 — Extract work items

Council output contains:

• Named cases (e.g., "Maria Gutierrez", "James Adeyemi")
• Formal constraints (e.g., "origin-blind routing")
• Conditional vetoes
• Concrete work items → dispatch to kanban

Output Schema

## Council Synthesis

### Veto Table
| Person | Veto? | Condition |
|--------|-------|-----------|
| Maria Gutierrez | VETO | Named + plausible + non-reversible |

### Constraints
- origin-blind routing: no geographic signal in initial screening

### Work Items
→ `hermes kanban create "Investigate regional bias in screening model"`
→ `hermes kanban create "Audit reversibility of candidate rejections"`

Profile Files

• ~/.hermes/profiles/research-council/SOUL.md — identity, directive, SEG framing
• ~/.hermes/skills/autonomous-ai-agents/research-council/SKILL.md — runtime execution

See Also

• [[two-council-architecture]] — how the research council fits above the technical working group
• [[spiral-architecture]] — inward spiral model for council deliberation
• [[empty-chair-protocol]] — how to invite missing perspectives