LLM Council (Browser Edition)

A static-site fork of karpathy/llm-council that runs entirely in the browser — no server, no database, no signup. Each visitor brings their own OpenRouter API key and stores it in their own browser's localStorage.

Live: https://raalzz.github.io/llm-council-on-browser/

What it does

A 3-stage deliberation flow over multiple LLMs (via OpenRouter):

1. Stage 1 — every council model answers the question independently.
2. Stage 2 — the same models rank each others' responses, anonymized.
3. Stage 3 — a chairman model synthesizes a final answer from the responses + rankings.

All orchestration runs in your browser. The repo has no backend.

Trust model

• Your OpenRouter key lives only in your browser's localStorage. It is sent directly from your browser to https://openrouter.ai. The repo owner never sees it.
• Conversations are also stored in your localStorage — they're scoped to the browser you used to write them. Clearing site data wipes them.
• The repo is fully static. Anyone hosting a fork has no way to capture visitor traffic.

Local development

npm install
npm run dev

Open the URL Vite prints (note the trailing path — the dev server respects base):

http://localhost:5173/llm-council-on-browser/

On first load, a settings modal will ask for your OpenRouter API key. Get one at openrouter.ai/keys.

Configuring the council

The Settings panel lets you change:

• Council models — one OpenRouter model id per line (browse at openrouter.ai/models). 2 minimum.
• Chairman model — synthesizes the final answer.
• Title model — generates short titles for new conversations.

Defaults match upstream: GPT-5.1, Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, with Gemini 3 Pro as chairman.

Deploying your own copy

1. Fork or create a repo (the included vite.config.js assumes the repo is named llm-council-on-browser; change base if you rename).
2. Push to main.
3. In repo Settings -> Pages, set Source to GitHub Actions.
4. The included .github/workflows/deploy.yml builds with Node 20 and publishes via actions/deploy-pages. Your URL will be https://<username>.github.io/<repo>/.

Project layout

src/
  api.js                # thin facade — preserves the upstream surface area
  lib/
    openrouter.js       # direct OpenRouter client
    council.js          # 3-stage orchestration (port of backend/council.py)
    storage.js          # localStorage CRUD for conversations
    settings.js         # localStorage CRUD for API key + model config
  components/
    SettingsModal.jsx   # API key + model configuration
    Sidebar.jsx         # (unchanged from upstream)
    ChatInterface.jsx   # (unchanged from upstream)
    Stage1/2/3.jsx      # (unchanged from upstream)

Credit

Original concept and UI by Andrej Karpathy: https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council.