fabius-conciliumlisted
Install: claude install-skill shear559/fabius
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# Fabius Concilium — convene the council, synthesize one answer
*Concilium* — the summoned assembly, the council called to deliberate before the decision is taken. fabius's whole identity is *one set of rules above every model*; concilium seats several models, lets them answer and judge each other blind, and has a chairman fuse the field. Its aim is to expose disagreement and reduce idiosyncratic error; it does not guarantee superiority over the best single seat, so measure that on the task. Patterned on karpathy's *llm-council*.
## The lean gate first — does this need a council at all? (`fabius-parcus`)
A council is the **heaviest** thing in this whole system on cost and latency. With N configured seats, M surviving first opinions, and R malformed-ballot retries, it makes exactly **N + M + R + 1** completion calls: N first-opinion attempts, M initial reviews, R retries, and one chairman. Because `0 ≤ M ≤ N` and `0 ≤ R ≤ M`, reserve at most **3N + 1** calls; the clean all-live/no-retry path is `2N + 1`. So the question comes before the council does:
- **Convene when** the answer is high-stakes and a wrong one is expensive (a design/architecture call, a medical/legal/financial *analysis*, a contested factual claim, a research synthesis) **and** rung one below has already failed the *same* way, **or** the user explicitly asks f