Council v0.2.0-alpha.1

Council is an evidence-bound adaptive deliberation system for consequential software-engineering decisions. Routine work stays direct; independent specialist lenses are added only when they can change a costly decision.

This first public alpha includes:

• the engineering-council Codex skill;
• four read-only engineering advisor profiles;
• a source-bound representative knowledge library;
• versioned roster and experiment contracts;
• deterministic verification, drift-safe materialization, and reproducible archives;
• 35 distribution contract tests and Docker-isolated verification.

Choose the right artifact

• council-full-0.2.0-alpha.1.zip is the supported alpha bundle: skill, advisor profiles, evidence, tests, and materializer.
• council-plugin-0.2.0-alpha.1.zip is intentionally skill-only. Codex CLI 0.146.0 does not declare custom-agent profiles as a plugin component, so this archive alone is not the full Council runtime.
• SHA256SUMS contains the release checksums.

Follow the installation and verification commands in the repository README.

Evidence boundary

Generation one is a private, synthetic, one-sample-per-cell evaluation. It supports the workflow repair and initial packaging decision; it does not prove that Council universally outperforms a strong single agent, that the current four-role roster is optimal, or that results transfer across domains and models.

Licensed under Apache-2.0. This is a prerelease intended for evaluation and feedback.