The Council

The Council

Fourteen members deliberate in parallel, then converge. Each has a distinct role, and the distinctness is the point: a council of identical agents is one agent with extra latency.

ID	Member	Role
OPV-000	Elite Commander	directive intake · final convergence
—	Atlas	the standing generalist
OPV-001	The Analyst	evidence · data
OPV-002	The Strategist	long-horizon positioning
OPV-003	The Skeptic	shadow gate · veto · critique
OPV-004	The Forecaster	scenarios
OPV-005	The Executor	tools · build · execute
OPV-006	The Storyteller	synthesis · communication
OPV-007	The Scout	discovery · files · vault
OPV-008	The Auditor	quality · verification
OPV-009	The Governor	governance · arbitration
OPV-010	The Architect	system design
OPV-011	The Sentinel	security · boundaries
OPV-012	The Concierge	routing · mission intake

Why parallel, then converge

Sequential agents inherit each other's framing — the second agent argues within the first one's assumptions. Parallel deliberation preserves genuine disagreement long enough for it to be recorded, which is what makes the minority-tracking in Governance Engine meaningful.

The Skeptic has a veto

OPV-003 is not decoration. A verdict that cannot survive the Skeptic does not ship. This is the council's structural answer to the failure mode where a group converges on the first plausible answer because disagreeing is socially expensive — the Skeptic is paid to disagree.

Dissent is preserved, not discarded

When the council converges, the minority position is recorded rather than deleted. Later, when Outcome Tracking grades the prediction, the House can discover that the minority was right — and Reputation adjusts accordingly.

A system that only remembers the winning opinion cannot learn that it systematically overrules the person who is usually correct.

Inspecting a deliberation

curl http://127.0.0.1:8766/api/council/dashboard   # the UI
curl http://127.0.0.1:8766/api/council/sessions    # past deliberations

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