Overview
consciousness-council is an open-source data skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by K-Dense-AI. Its author describes it as: “Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/pan…”. The project has 44k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/consciousness-council`.
What consciousness-council does
A structured multi-perspective deliberation system that generates genuine cognitive diversity on any question. Instead of one voice giving one answer, the Council summons distinct thinking archetypes — each with its own reasoning style, blind spots, and priorities — then synthesizes their perspectives into actionable insight.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for consciousness-council is organised into these sections:
- Why This Exists
- How It Works
- Phase 1 — Summon the Council
- Phase 2 — Deliberation
- Phase 3 — Synthesis
- Council Configurations
- What Makes a Good Council Question
- Tone and Quality
- Example
- Attribution
Installation
Add consciousness-council to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/consciousness-councilReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
Neither the skill nor its repository names a specific agent. It uses the SKILL.md format, which several agents can load — check the repository for any agent-specific requirements.
License
consciousness-council is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, an established project with 43,503 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 9,682 GitHub stars over the last 20 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does consciousness-council do?
- Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate analysis, or says things like "what would different experts think about this", "help me think through this from all sides", "council mode", "mind council", or "deliberate on this". Also trigger when the user faces a dilemma, trade-off, or complex choice with no obvious answer.
- How do I install consciousness-council?
- Run git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/consciousness-council in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills before installing.
- Is consciousness-council free to use?
- Yes. consciousness-council is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does consciousness-council come from?
- consciousness-council ships inside K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, a repository that contains 42 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 43,503 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.