Council Taxonomy

This reference defines council primitives used by agent-council, deep-council, debate-protocol, and bridge adapters.

Core Principle

Deep insight does not come from model diversity alone. Different runtimes using the same model can produce materially different findings because their planning loop, tool affordances, context packaging, file discovery, browser/repo access, session continuity, and error recovery differ.

Council reports must therefore record all diversity sources:

• Role diversity — different expert perspectives inside one council.
• Model diversity — different model weights/providers.
• Runtime diversity — different agent executors such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, or Hermes subagents.
• Toolchain diversity — different available tools, MCP servers, browser/repo access, and shell/file workflows.
• Evidence-channel diversity — different ways of grounding claims: tests, logs, source files, web sources, browser observations, human input.
• Debate-layer diversity — local/intra-council debate and cross-council debate.

Council Types