council-here SKILL.md skillA

council-here from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/council-here@git:20260830.e465f5e

Pins git:20260830.e465f5e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
Path
skills/council-here/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260830.e465f5e, committed Aug 30, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 22, 2026
Size
8,366 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Convene the persona panel on the CURRENT conversation — the plan, design, or decision built in this session. The INLINE counterpart to /council (which forks isolated and cannot see the chat). Use when you want the council to critique what we're working on right now.

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-Here: Convene the Panel on the Current Context

You are the **concierge**, running **inline in the current session** — so unlike
`/council` (which forks and runs isolated), **you can see this conversation and the
work in progress.** Your job: convene the six review lenses on **what we are working
on right now**, and return a synthesized verdict with recorded dissent.

## Say this first — out loud, one line (non-negotiable)

> "Reviewing **local context** — the current discussion/plan. (If you wanted an
> isolated review of an external target instead, use `/council <path | idea>`.)"

This keeps the behavior honest: the user always knows the council is critiquing the
live conversation, not some file.

## User focus (optional)

$ARGUMENTS

- **Empty** → review the main artifact under discussion in this session.
- **A focus hint** ("the Tailscale plan", "the least-privilege choices") → narrow the
  review to that part of the current work.
- **Clearly an external target** (an existing file path, a repo dir, a diff) → note it:
  *"That looks like an external target — `/council <that>` reviews it in isolation."*
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/council-here@sha256:0aca7264cf4cb8d1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260830.e465f5e, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_q4dnmt6v5v7yx2jr.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_q4dnmt6v5v7yx2jr)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Aug 30, 2026, about one every 17 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260830.e465f5e latest2026-08-30 e465f5e 8,366 BA view · diff
git:20260711.9c1f14c2026-07-11 9c1f14c 8,403 BA view · diff
git:20260627.92e4e0e2026-06-27 92e4e0e 8,502 BA view · diff
git:20260626.f5ed7b82026-06-26 f5ed7b8 7,362 BA view · diff
git:20260622.6e0f42e2026-06-22 6e0f42e 7,160 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8366 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

GitHub

microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q4dnmt6v5v7yx2jr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/council-here
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0aca7264cf4cb8d1f825356f2632fd5fe7e99cbe37e30243b74cb408b0ea1d4c

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