Perspective Council

An explicitly requested council examines a consequential decision through distinct lenses. Named model members and a judge belong to model-council instead.

Choose the declared scale

For a focused council, select a small set of relevant opposing lenses and one fresh synthesis pass. State membership and whether peer review is included before dispatch. Full mode is five advisors, five anonymous peer reviews, then one chair; use it when explicitly requested or covered by the agreed scope and budget.

Lens	Contribution
Contrarian	Failure modes and neglected downside
First Principles	Actual problem and binding assumptions
Expansionist	Plausible upside and overlooked opportunity
Outsider	Missing explanations and assumed context
Executor	Feasibility and a concrete first step

Frame the question neutrally with relevant facts, constraints and uncertainty. Each advisor gets the same grounding plus its lens, and no other advisor output. Sequential dispatch can preserve independence; simultaneity is not a requirement. Require evidence and calibrated uncertainty rather than forcing certainty or ignoring risks to perform a role.

When peer review is included, anonymize responses before reviewers compare their reasoning and gaps. Give the fresh chair all responses and peer reviews, restoring attribution where helpful. Deliver agreement, disagreements, blind spots, recommendation and a practical next step. Agreement among agents is not independent factual verification or automatic high confidence.

Dispatch advisors and the chair through the delegation skill. Never fill a missing advisor's pass yourself: report it, and whether the chair saw an incomplete set. Save a transcript only when requested; a council does not grant implementation or external-message authority.