jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.7 2a1101d172 log first Council session on Volt NL party fit
Full session artefacts for the question "Is Volt the correct political
party for me in the Netherlands?" — brief with Phase-0 interview and
Phase-2 clarification additions, five round-1 research files from Naima
Quéré, verbatim initial answers and revised answers from all ten
members, transparent vote transcript with rationales, canonical outcome
file, and narrative summary.

Exercises the clarification-flag machinery: nine of ten members raised
Phase-2 clarifications which consolidated to four user questions; all
four resolved in Volt's direction. No research-gap round fired, no
Phase-3 clarifications, no round-2 revision. Four-way vote split
(Koskela 4, Tavşan 3, Vaasa 2, Vire 1); no user tie-break required.

This is the reference fixture for the mql CLI's first integration test
corpus — real frontmatter, wikilinks, and Obsidian Bases targets across
eleven files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-19 18:20:08 +02:00

Council

A Claude Code deliberation system with a persistent memory layer, browsable as an Obsidian vault.

You pose a question; a council of ten distinct personas (plus a Researcher and a Scribe) deliberates through a structured five-phase workflow, produces a voting table, and hands you the winning answer. Every session leaves a full transcript and persistent memory behind.

Quick start

Inside the repo in Claude Code:

/council <your question>

The Moderator (the main Claude Code session) will interview you briefly for context, then kick off the Council. You'll be asked follow-up questions along the way — to clarify the brief, resolve research gaps, or break vote ties. At the end you get a voting table and the full winning answer; everything is archived to sessions/<slug>/.

The Council

10 voting members, wild eclectic mix:

  • Elif Tavşan — retired stage magician & cold-reading coach
  • Dr. Wren Okafor — deep-sea marine biologist → systems ecologist
  • Magnus Holt — bankruptcy lawyer → insolvency-law lecturer
  • Sister Beatrix Vale — Benedictine nun → hospice counselor
  • Nikolai "Niko" Prochazka — Soviet cosmonaut trainer → wilderness survival instructor
  • Dr. Ingrid Vaasa — theoretical physicist (QFT) → independent researcher
  • Kai "Breaker" Lindholm — pro skateboarder → skatepark architect
  • Cassian Vire — investigative journalist → speculative-fiction novelist
  • Marcelo "Marco" Tintori — trained painter → 20 years as a corrections officer
  • Mari Koskela — marine engineer on cargo ships → anthropologist of maritime labor

Plus two non-voting roles:

  • Naima Quéré (Researcher) — the only sub-agent with web access.
  • Ansel Voss (Scribe) — transcribes proceedings and writes session files.

See council-members.base for the full roster as a table view in Obsidian.

Browsing sessions in Obsidian

Open this repo as an Obsidian vault. The two Bases at the root provide table views:

  • council-sessions.base — every session, sortable by date / winner / whether a tie happened.
  • council-members.base — the full roster with prior jobs and lenses.

Individual session files live at sessions/<slug>/:

  • brief.md — the Moderator's brief from the Phase-0 interview
  • research/*.md — the Researcher's per-topic notes
  • initial-answers.md, revised-answers.md, votes.md — phase transcripts
  • outcome.md — the canonical session file (winner, tally, full winning answer)

Deeper docs

  • CLAUDE.md — guidance for Claude Code when working inside this repo
  • docs/structure/initial-plan.md — the full design document
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