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The LLM Council

Stop Your Yes-Man AI and Build a Board of Advisors That Argues Before It Agrees

eBook: $9.99 196 pages

Your AI tells you what you want to hear, then builds a flawless case on a cracked premise. Build the council that argues before it agrees: five independent advisors, anonymous peer review, one verdict you can trust. The complete system Karpathy sketched and nobody finished, as Claude Code skills you run this weekend.

Your AI takes your premise as ground truth and builds an elegant case on top of it. If the premise is cracked, you do not get pushback, you get a flawless tower on a broken floor. The fix is not a sharper prompt. It is a council: a panel of AI advisors that attack the question from five angles, peer-review each other anonymously, and hand back one verdict with the dissent shown. This is the complete council system Andrej Karpathy sketched and nobody finished, built as Claude Code skills you run this weekend. Nearly 200 pages, and every build chapter ships a council that actually runs.

What You'll Build

01
The Yes-Man Tax

The silent cost of running every important decision past one agreeable model, and the turn toward a council.

02
What a Council Actually Is

The four-box flow: independent answers, anonymous peer review, and a chairman that returns one verdict.

03
Why One Model Lies to You

The three ways a single model leads you wrong (hallucination, sycophancy, bias) and which a council fixes.

04
Build Your First Council This Weekend

A working five-advisor /council Claude Code skill, one command, no two-terminal setup.

05
The Chairman: From Five Opinions to One Verdict

The anonymous ranking and the chairman that turns five opinions into one verdict with the dissent named.

06
Design Your Own Council

A parameterized template and an archetype library so you convene the right council for any decision.

07
The Multi-Model Council

Route GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok through OpenRouter so no single vendor's blind spot decides the verdict.

08
The Code-Review Council

A /review-council where Codex, Claude, and Gemini argue over your diff and block on any real bug.

09
Your AI Board of Advisors

A standing /board for pricing, hiring, and go/no-go calls where a yes-man is most expensive.

10
The Verification Council

A /verify council that fact-gates a claim and reports SUPPORTED, CONTRADICTED, or an honest UNVERIFIABLE.

11
Is It Just 5x Slower?

The honest cost reckoning, parallel execution, and the guardrail against a council faking consensus.

12
Your Council Operating System

Tie every council into one operating system with a one-line guide for which to convene when.