Council
Second opinions from every AI CLI you already trust.
One command runs Claude, Gemini, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and more in parallel — plans, anonymous ranking, Devil’s Advocate, chairman synthesis, full audit trail. Local. Free. No API keys.
What Council does
Discover agents on your PATH, run them concurrently on one task, collect independent plans, anonymized peer ranking with a Devil’s Advocate, then chairman synthesis — all audited under council_runs/.
- Discover installed agent CLIs and ping them.
- Plan in parallel — one independent plan per agent.
- Rank & critique with letter labels and
FINAL RANKING:, plus a rotating Devil’s Advocate. - Synthesize a chairman
synthesis.txtwhen two or more plans succeed. - Audit everything under
council_runs/for humans and other agents.
- Discover installed AI CLIs and skip the rest.
- Plan in parallel — each agent writes its own plan artifact.
- Critique anonymized peer plans; one agent plays Devil’s Advocate.
- Audit everything under
council_runs/for humans and other agents.
What’s new in v1.6.0
Anonymous ranking, chairman synthesis, and a living competitor matrix.
- Phase 2 requires
FINAL RANKING:on anonymized plan labels - Phase 3 chairman writes
synthesis.txt(+rankings.json) - Windows file-backed long prompts (CreateProcess length safe)
- Living competitive analysis refreshed each release
Works with the CLIs you already use
Up to twelve agents. One installed and signed-in CLI is enough to start.
- Claude Code
- Gemini CLI
- OpenAI Codex
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
- Antigravity
- Aider
- OpenCode
- Qwen
- Goose
- Amp
- Factory Droid
Install in under a minute
brew install alijamal14/tap/councilscoop bucket add alijamal14 https://github.com/alijamal14/scoop-bucket
scoop install councilgo install github.com/alijamal14/council@latestcouncil setup --apply
council login
council "Design a migration plan for the auth service."Verify with council doctor. Results land in council_runs/run_<timestamp>/.
Frequently asked questions
- What is AI Council?
- A free, open-source CLI that orchestrates multiple AI coding assistants in parallel on one task, then has them critique each other’s plans. It is not a hosted model and does not collect API keys.
- Does AI Council require API keys?
- No. Council shells out to vendor CLIs you already installed and authenticated (for example
claude login). - How do I install AI Council?
- Use Homebrew, Scoop,
go install github.com/alijamal14/council@latest, or the install scripts in the GitHub repository. - Which AI agents does Council support?
- Up to twelve: Gemini, Codex, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Antigravity, Aider, OpenCode, Qwen, Goose, Amp, and Factory Droid.
- Where do Council results go?
- Each session writes
plan.*.txt,critique.*.txt(withFINAL RANKING:),label_map.json,rankings.json,synthesis.txt, andaudit.jsonlundercouncil_runs/run_<timestamp>/.