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# Council Adjudication For a decision no test can settle, a panel of models beats one model, but only when it is adjudicated correctly. The failure mode is a panel that talks until it averages into a bland compromise; measured, that regresses toward the weaker members. The council works on one principle: **answer independently, rank blind, synthesize from the best.** It never averages. ## When to use it - A real decision (design, architecture, tradeoff, strategy) with more than one defensible answer and no executable oracle. - Stakes high enough to justify several models' time. A decision one competent pass settles does not need a council. - If an executable oracle exists, use mega-orchestration:best-of-n instead; selection by oracle beats any panel of opinions. ## Procedure 1. **One sharp question.** State the decision criteria with it: constraints, priorities, what must not break. Everything downstream is judged against them. 2. **Independent answers.** Ask N members for a full answer with its reasoning and tradeoffs. Use different models or vendors where available (resolve the `council_member` role via `multi-agent-delegation`'s `scripts/delegate-resolve council_member`), or one model from deliberately different starting angles. Members answer blind to each other: no shared thread, no building on a previous answer. Independence gives the panel its range. 3. **An anonymized set.** Blind the answers with mega-orchestration:best-of-n's `scrip