cli-council
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Ask one question; several first-party model CLIs (Claude, Codex, Grok, Gemini/Antigravity) answer, anonymously rank each other, and a chairman synthesises the final answer. No API keys by default, zero runtime dependencies — it shells out to the official CLIs you already installed and authenticated. An OpenAI-compatible token voice is optional and opt-in (key from an env var). cli-council is an independent, clean-room reimplementation of the "LLM council" idea (first opinions → anonymized peer ranking → chairman synthesis) on a subscription-CLI…
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subscription-CLI substrate: instead of a paid HTTP API.
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# cli-council > Ask one question; several first-party model CLIs (Claude, Codex, Grok, > Gemini/Antigravity) answer, anonymously rank each other, and a chairman > synthesises the final answer. No API keys by default, zero runtime dependencies > — it shells out to the official CLIs you already installed and authenticated. An > OpenAI-compatible token voice is optional and opt-in (key from an env var). cli-council is an independent, clean-room reimplementation of the "LLM council" idea (first opinions → anonymized peer ranking → chairman synthesis) on a **subscription-CLI substrate** instead of a paid HTTP API. Native-default — Claude works out of the box; every other voice is opt-in behind a strict, smoke-gated install contract that never enrols a voice it hasn't proven answers. A voice can optionally be a token-based OpenAI-compatible API call instead of a CLI, configured only in your local council.toml with the key kept in an env var. The engine is mode-aware and built from two primitives: a COUNCIL (Karpathy: opinions → anonymized peer-rank → chairman synthesis) for answers and reviews, and a PANEL (every voice independently, worst-wins rule aggregation, no chairman) for gates. `council "question"` asks; `council review [ref]` reviews a code change, then optional audit/redteam panels verify the synthesis and a pure rule gate reports clean / degraded / unverified (fail-closed). `council decide "question"` makes a verified decision: the same council + audit panel, but redteam is off by default (a recommendation has no ground-truth claim to refute) and a family quorum requires ≥3 model families before it synthesises. ## Docs - [README](README.md): what it is, why subscription-CLI and not an API, the provider table, how the three stages work, install and run. - [Install contract](installer/CONTRACT.md): the strict gated install sequence (detect → choose → install → login → smoke → enrol → dry-run) and the invariants it guarantees. - [NOTICE](NOTICE): clean-room provenance and credit to Karpathy's llm-council idea; what this is NOT (not an API client, not a credential tool, not account sharing). ## Code - [council/stages.py](council/stages.py): the three council stages — first opinions, anonymized peer ranking, chairman synthesis, with loud-fail on any voice; a `Mode` chooses the ranking/chairman wording (ask vs review), the engine is shared. - [council/review.py](council/review.py): review mode — build a review prompt from a git diff / files / prompt-file, run the council with review wording, synthesise one review with a verdict (SHIP/…/REWORK) and BLOCKER/IMPORTANT/CHECK/ACCEPT/NOISE severities. - [council/decide.py](council/decide.py): decide mode — wrap a question in a decision contract, run the council with decision wording (recommendation + trade-offs + action tiers), gate on a ≥3 model-family quorum before synthesis, plus the DECISION audit prompt (invented convergence / misattribution / tier inflation) reused by the pipeline. - [council/panel.py](council/panel.py): the PANEL primitive — every voice gets the same prompt independently and in parallel; verdicts aggregate worst-wins (a rule can't be talked into softening; a lone credible catch can't be outvoted). - [council/audit.py](council/audit.py): verification layer — audit panel (synthesis vs raw reviews), redteam panel (adversarial attack on findings), mechanical greps, and the pure-rule gate (clean ⇔ audit CLEAN ∧ redteam HOLDS/skipped; fail-closed). - [council/pipeline.py](council/pipeline.py): the one-call review pipeline (council → panels → gate) — the library entry point; returns status clean / degraded / unverified with reasons. - [council/providers.py](council/providers.py): the provider table and two transports — a subprocess to an official CLI (default), or an opt-in stdlib-`urllib` call to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (key from an env var); per-voice timeouts. - [council/aggregate.py](council/aggregate.py): strict `FINAL RANKING` parse (exact permutation or reported failure) + Borda leaderboard + critique extraction. - [installer/doctor.py](installer/doctor.py): the deterministic install gates — detect, smoke, smoke-gated enroll, list. ## Optional - [council.example.toml](council.example.toml): enrolment plus per-voice command and timeout overrides.
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