LLM Council Failure Modes

Purpose

Defends a multi-model council (debate, jury, panel-of-judges, or any pipeline where agents see each other's output) against the failure modes that emerge specifically from having more than one agent. The same properties that make councils attractive — shared training data, agreeable models, agent-to-agent trust — are exactly what sycophancy, groupthink, and prompt injection exploit. Four failure clusters, one root cause: correlation. This skill names the failure, points to the defense, and warns when a proposed fix is itself a known dead end.

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