council SKILL.md skillA
council from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/council@git:20261001.5a7ce93Pins git:20261001.5a7ce93 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow
- Path
skills/council/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261001.5a7ce93, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 15, 2026
- Size
- 14,708 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Five independent critic subagents in parallel on an idea, plan, design, R&R strategy, grant, or SKILL.md, then a synthesis pass that ranks findings by how much of the argument rests on them, never by vote count. A markdown work plan gets the plan roster (assumptions, pre-mortem, what to delete, alternatives per piece, can it be run as written). TRIGGER on "council", "spawn critics", "parallel critique", "kitchen cabinet", "panel review", "stress-test this", "poke holes in this…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# council Five independent critics, one synthesizer, no majority voting. Single round. Adapted from Chris Blattman's [claudeblattman](https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattman), including the rule that the synthesizer ranks by how much of the argument rests on a finding and never by how many critics raised it. ## When to use - Stuck between two framings of a paper, R&R, or grant, and you want adversarial pressure on both. - A plan, design, or skill draft is almost right and needs failure-mode pressure before it ships. - The target is heterogeneous (idea plus design plus venue choice, or a strategy memo) so a manuscript-shaped review does not fit. Not for a complete manuscript you want line-edited and refereed against a journal bar: that is `review-paper`. Not for numeric or reproducibility audits. This skill produces a checklist and never edits the target. ## Inputs | Argument | Default | Meaning | |---|---|---| | target | required | file path, or an inline paragraph describing the idea, plan, or decision | | `--plan` | inferred | force the plan roster; inferred for a markdown plan or project document when no roster flag is given | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/council@sha256:a2e53bf6c1ba174dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.5a7ce93, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3rlqstisnvinargq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 15, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261001.5a7ce93 latest | 2026-10-01 | 5a7ce93 | 14,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.cf7ff52 | 2026-09-14 | cf7ff52 | 14,695 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.b89bc04 | 2026-09-14 | b89bc04 | 10,907 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.7c0125b | 2026-09-06 | 7c0125b | 10,934 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.039723a | 2026-08-28 | 039723a | 10,872 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.fad6178 | 2026-08-04 | fad6178 | 11,150 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.37a3f77 | 2026-07-27 | 37a3f77 | 11,140 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260515.312e674 | 2026-05-15 | 312e674 | 13,670 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14708 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow · 25 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3rlqstisnvinargq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/council GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2e53bf6c1ba174d2517ba93f6a460e895ddfbb14daf9b1a1727c946c57077db
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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