jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.7
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Establishes the knowledge-base substrate the Council now sits on top of: daily/, inbox/ (+ raw/ for AudioPen drops), notes/, projects/, reading/, reflections/, reviews/, _templates/. Each folder seeded with a .gitkeep so the structure is committed even when empty. Six templates under _templates/ define the canonical shape for each note type (daily, permanent, project, reading, reflection, fleeting). Frontmatter includes the type: field so the Bases below can filter on it without collision with the existing council-* vocabulary. Five new Obsidian Bases at repo root: notes.base, projects.base (with active / all views), reading.base (to-read / reading / done views), reflections.base (combined reflections + weekly + monthly reviews), and inbox.base (fleeting notes awaiting triage). Expanded .obsidian/app.json userIgnoreFilters to hide _templates and scripts from the vault index so they don't clutter the graph, search, or file explorer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 interviewresearch/*.md— the Researcher's per-topic notesinitial-answers.md,revised-answers.md,votes.md— phase transcriptsoutcome.md— the canonical session file (winner, tally, full winning answer)
Deeper docs
CLAUDE.md— guidance for Claude Code when working inside this repodocs/structure/initial-plan.md— the full design document