Council

Council is an optional judgment strategy for hard questions where contrasting perspectives can expose alternatives, assumptions, or missed evidence. Use it when the caller selects multiple views for brainstorming, architecture or planning, or validation. Name the uncertainty that makes the additional contexts useful; routine work needs no council.

Use	Ask each participant for	Return to the caller
Brainstorm	Distinct options, assumptions, and failure modes	Promising ideas and the objections worth testing
Design or plan	A proposed approach, tradeoffs, and evidence	A recommendation with unresolved decisions visible
Validate	Findings against the same subject and acceptance	Advisory findings for the accountable fresh validator
Duel	Ranked ideas, then scores for every other member's ideas	Ideas ranked by cross-member agreement, score gaps and dissent
Interview panel	An answer to each Interview question	Agreed and open answers the caller accepts or amends