dt-council

name	dt-council
description	Mediator-first multi-perspective council protocol for disagreement surfacing and synthesis. Triggers: dt-council, model council, diverse perspectives, mediator redirect.

dt-council

Usage

Use this skill when a task needs disagreement surfacing across distinct analytical lenses, or when @deep-think-mediator returns a council redirect.

This is a repository-fit council protocol surface for the active mediator stack. It is executed by @dt-council-mediator and stays inside the repository's lifecycle-first boundary.

Responsibility

This skill owns council-local reasoning flow only:

• Normalize council intake and level selection.
• Select diverse participants from the active agent fleet.
• Sequence parallel analysis, critique, enrichment, and synthesis.
• Return a normalized council result to the orchestrator.

Out of scope:

• Lifecycle transitions, approval gates, and persistence.
• User-facing delivery.
• Independent Gemini vendor plumbing beyond the mediator's leaf boundary.
• Global orchestration beyond the council-local phase sequence.

Active Repo Surfaces

Use these active repository surfaces:

• Council mediator: @dt-council-mediator
• Optional first-hop redirect source: @deep-think-mediator
• Optional Gemini runtime surface: host-provided native Gemini access outside the repo-owned runtime, when available
• Preferred participant pool: @architect, @planner-gpt, @planner-gemini, @planner-claude, @research-gpt, @research-gemini, @research-claude, @validator
• Optional runtime helpers when configured: session-gate and context-manager

Levels

• council: 3 to 4 distinct participants, one enrichment round, one synthesis pass.
• extended: adds stronger critique and at least one additional enrichment round.
• ultra: reserved for the hardest decisions and only when the caller provides enough budget.

Protocol

1. Normalize intake

• Require: objective, constraints, council level hint, budget hint, and expected output shape.
• If a protocol asset reference is provided, prefer that asset. Otherwise run this local repo-fit protocol.

2. Select participants

• Choose 3 to 4 participants with genuinely different lenses.
• Avoid duplicate participants unless a specific domain needs reinforcement.
• Use a Gemini-family runtime path only when it is explicitly required and the host environment provides native Gemini access outside the repo-owned runtime.

3. Run first-pass analysis

• Dispatch parallel first-pass analyses.
• Require each participant to state assumptions, strongest recommendation, and key uncertainty.

4. Critique and enrich

• Require a critique or destruction-test pass before synthesis.
• Share disagreement zones back across participants for one or more enrichment rounds depending on level.
• Preserve high-value disagreements rather than compressing them away.

5. Synthesize

• Produce one synthesis package.
• Name where the council agrees, where it disagrees, and why.
• If evidence is insufficient to resolve a disagreement, keep both positions in the output.

Output Contract

Return one of these shapes:

dt_council_mediator_result:
  status: complete
  level: council | extended | ultra
  summary: <short council outcome>
  final_payload:
    recommendation: <result>
    agreements: [<agreement>]
    disagreements: [<disagreement>]
    follow_ups: [<follow-up>]
  metadata:
    protocol_asset: local-repo-fit | <path>
    phases_completed: [selection, analysis, critique, enrichment, synthesis]
    participants: [<agent labels>]

dt_council_mediator_result:
  status: blocked | error
  reason: <missing dependency or failure>
  partial_payload: <optional>

Exit Criteria

• Council intake is normalized.
• Participant diversity is intentional.
• The final payload preserves meaningful disagreement.
• The result stays inside mediator and lifecycle boundaries.

Failure Handling

• Missing council mediator context or inputs: return blocked.
• Required Gemini vendor path unavailable: return blocked or a degraded payload without vendor participation.
• Budget exhaustion before synthesis: return error with partial findings and unresolved disagreement zones.