llm-council
Convene an internal "council" of distinct senior-engineer personas to analyze a problem, stress-test an approach, and produce an implementation plan before writing code — grounding the decision in up-to-date online research (current library/API versions, vendor pricing and limits, regulatory rules) rather than stale training data. Use this whenever the user is analyzing a system, weighing architectural or design trade-offs, planning a non-trivial feature or refactor, evaluating a library/tool/vendor choice, debugging something whose root cause is unclear, or asks to "think through", "plan", "analyze", "research", "review the approach for", or "figure out how to build" something — even if they don't say the word "council". Trigger it especially for decisions that are expensive to reverse (data models, API contracts, infra, auth, migrations) or that depend on external facts that may have changed. Do NOT trigger for trivial one-liners, straightforward lookups, or when the user just wants code written for an already-decided approach.
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From the source SKILL.md
Convene a small council of opinionated senior engineers inside a single response. Each has a distinct mandate and is allowed — expected — to disagree. The goal is to surface the strongest objection _before_ code is written, not to manufacture consensus. This is for analysis and planning, not for rubber-stamping.
What this skill does
llm-council is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
Who uses this skill
The llm-council Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 201,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
How to install
Free
Manual install (2 steps)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/coding-llm-council/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\coding-llm-council\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I install the llm-council Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/coding-llm-council/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the llm-council skill do?
Convene an internal "council" of distinct senior-engineer personas to analyze a problem, stress-test an approach, and produce an implementation plan before writing code — grounding the decision in up-to-date online research (current library/API versions, vendor pricing and limits, regulatory rules) rather than stale training data. Use this whenever the user is analyzing a system, weighing architectural or design trade-offs, planning a non-trivial feature or refactor, evaluating a library/tool/vendor choice, debugging something whose root cause is unclear, or asks to "think through", "plan", "analyze", "research", "review the approach for", or "figure out how to build" something — even if they don't say the word "council". Trigger it especially for decisions that are expensive to reverse (data models, API contracts, infra, auth, migrations) or that depend on external facts that may have changed. Do NOT trigger for trivial one-liners, straightforward lookups, or when the user just wants code written for an already-decided approach.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the llm-council skill?
Use llm-council when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the science misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use llm-council" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/science/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the llm-council skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a
SKILL.md file that lives under
~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. llm-council is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at
/learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.
Attribution & license
Cite this skill
If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
APA
nikola-wd. (2026). llm-council [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/coding-llm-council/
BibTeX
@misc{coding-llm-council-2026,
author = {nikola-wd},
title = {llm-council [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/coding-llm-council/}
}
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