ai-councillisted

<!-- cloud_safe: degrade --> > **Experimental.** AI Council is not yet validated by external users. API costs apply per consultation. # ai-council ## When to use * The host agent has drafted a roadmap, plan, or design and wants an **external** critique that is not biased by its own framing. * The user asks "what would Claude / GPT say about this?" or invokes `/council`. * A PR diff or commit range needs a second-opinion review beyond the internal four-judge pass. * A free-form proposal benefits from being challenged by an outside reviewer before it calcifies into work. Do NOT use when: * The decision is internal-only and budget matters more than diversity of opinion → use `subagent-orchestration` (in-session, no network, no money). * The artefact contains secrets that cannot be redacted with the bundler's pattern set → ask the user before sending. * The user has not configured any council member → state that and stop; do not silently fall back to anything. ## When NOT to invoke — necessity self-check Phase 6 necessity classifier (see [`ai-council-config § Necessity classifier`](../../../docs/contracts/ai-council-config.md)) runs as pre-flight gate inside CLI, skips council when prompt looks like routine work. Route around it BEFORE gate fires so user never pays classifier-pause cost on request that obviously did not need council. Skip council, stay in-session for: * **Bugfix shape** — stack trace, error, crash, failing test, "broken", regression. U