Council

Council is an optional judgment strategy, not a lifecycle or delivery gate. Use it when one fresh validator is insufficient for a named irreversible, high-blast-radius, or genuinely contested decision. Do not convene a council for a routine or reversible decision that a single fresh validator can settle: the cost of independent contexts is warranted only by a named one-way door.

1. Freeze one question, acceptance surface, evidence set, and subject digest.
2. Give each judge an independent context and the same bounded packet.
3. Require each judge to cite evidence, disclose omissions, and return its own judgment without seeing other answers first.
4. Synthesize agreement and disagreement without majority laundering. Preserve minority evidence and unresolved assumptions.
5. Write council-report.v1 and return it to the caller.

Methodology-weighted agreement