ai-council

> **Experimental.** AI Council is not yet validated by external users. API costs apply per consultation. <!-- cloud_safe: degrade --> # ai-council ## Council-first — try the council BEFORE the user, on these classes ``` A DESIGN DECISION THE AGENT CANNOT SETTLE FROM THE TREE GOES TO THE COUNCIL FIRST, NOT TO THE USER FIRST. THE USER IS THE ESCALATION, NOT THE DEFAULT. NEVER PRESENT A COUNCIL VERDICT THAT WAS NOT REACHED. AN INCONCLUSIVE RUN IS REPORTED AS INCONCLUSIVE, AND WHATEVER YOU DECIDE INSTEAD IS LABELLED OWN ANALYSIS. ``` Interrupting the user is the expensive path: it costs a round trip and their attention, and on a question two models could have settled it buys nothing they wanted to be asked. So the ordering is **tree → council → user**, and the council leg is the one that gets skipped. **Classes that go to the council first** — each is a judgement with a real trade-off and no answer in the tree: | Class | Example | |---|---| | Competing implementations of one feature | two sessions shipped the same phase; discard, overwrite, or merge | | Which of N designs, all defensible | four declared types with a derived fifth, or five declared | | Reopening a recorded decision | an ADR or honest-null blocks a change that now looks net-positive | | Scope re-cut inside an authorized task | this phase splits into two, or absorbs the next | | Is the evidence sufficient to conclude | n=1 measurement, a proxy metric, an unreplicated finding | **Classes that still go straigh...