TechCouncil

Four-seat technical decision council for any IT decision — home router to frontier AGI.

The Turing Council (TC4) is a Claude Code skill that runs any technical decision through four named seats — Musk (first principles), Schneier (security + recovery), DHH (operability + cost), and Solomon (verdict). Output is a structured verdict with a smallest testable action.

Designed for solo operators and small teams who need a senior-engineer second opinion in under 500 words.

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Install

Three discrete paths. Pick one.

1. Claude Code plugin marketplace

Inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ojesusmp/TechCouncil
/plugin install techcouncil@techcouncil

Verify: open a fresh Claude Code conversation, trigger the skill name, and confirm it responds.

2. Git clone (manual)

Git does not run install scripts — the copy step is manual.

git clone https://github.com/ojesusmp/TechCouncil.git

POSIX:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil
cp TechCouncil/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

Windows PowerShell:

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil" | Out-Null
Copy-Item "TechCouncil\SKILL.md" "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md"

Verify:

sha256sum ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

(Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash

3. npm (postinstall auto-copies SKILL.md)

npm install -g @ojesusmp/techcouncil

Verify: the postinstall log prints [install] copied (sha256=…). To re-check independently:

sha256sum ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

(Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash

Windows quirk: npm install -g github:ojesusmp/TechCouncil on Windows + Node 24 + npm 11 may print MODULE_NOT_FOUND and exit 1 even though the postinstall copied SKILL.md successfully. Verify with the SHA above. For a clean exit, use npm pack github:ojesusmp/TechCouncil then npm install -g <generated>.tgz.

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Usage

In any Claude Code conversation, invoke the council on a real decision:

techcouncil should I host my marketing site on the existing VPS or rent a new one?

The council runs four turns — Musk, Schneier, DHH, Solomon — and emits a verdict block with a smallest testable action.

See SKILL.md for the full protocol, seat reasoning prompts, scale-dial weights, and an end-to-end example.

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The four seats

Seat	Voice	Owns
Musk	First-principles visionary	Kill list, 10x reframing, anti-clutter
Schneier	Security + recovery realist	Threat model, data class, manual restore path
DHH	Pragmatic operator	Maintainability, monthly cost, mobile, vendor count
Solomon	Synthesis judge	Verdict, smallest testable action

No fifth seat. No rotating wildcard. Four is the cognitive ceiling for a fast decision.

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Defaults

The council runs under these defaults unless overridden:

• Vendor ceiling: +1 per decision
• Cost ceiling: $20 / month new commitment
• Mobile rule: must work on phone browser
• Recovery rule: manual restore documented before ship
• Reject reflex: "may be useful later" → killed
• Approve reflex: "ships safely, simply, solo-operable" → green

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security

See SECURITY.md.

Credits

Built and maintained by Orlando Molina under TruePointAgents.

License

Released under the MIT License.