Decision Council

by softspark

Decision Council is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by softspark in ai-toolkit.

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Install Decision Council

Copy Decision Council into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit/tree/main/app/skills/council ~/.claude/skills/council

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: app/skills/council/SKILL.md in softspark/ai-toolkit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/council
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Decision Council does

Decision Council evaluates an architecture or product decision from four perspectives using parallel sub-agents and a synthesized recommendation. Use it when comparing options, weighing trade-offs, or checking the impact of a proposed change.

Decision Council is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Decision Council comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-skills, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Decision Council

$ARGUMENTS

Evaluate a decision from 4 distinct perspectives using parallel sub-agents, then synthesize a weighted recommendation.

Usage

/council [decision question or proposal to evaluate]

What This Command Does

Parses the decision question from user input
Gathers codebase context relevant to the decision
Spawns 4 parallel sub-agents — each analyzing from a different perspective
Synthesizes all perspectives into a structured recommendation with decision matrix

MANDATORY: You MUST use the Agent tool

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Decision Council provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/council

Frequently asked about Decision Council

What else does softspark publish alongside Decision Council?
Decision Council is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from softspark/ai-toolkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Patterns, Accessibility Validator and Agent Creator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Decision Council does, and is maintained by softspark in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the softspark/ai-toolkit page.
How does Decision Council compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Decision Council ranks #3274 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Decision Council against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.