Council

Six seats. One authority. Advisory layer for navigating the unknown and building what lasts.

See charter.md for oaths, mandates, and productive tensions.

The Six Seats

Seat	Directive	Content
Critic	Discipline of Doubt	Critique, Decisions, Disagreement, Career
Mentor	Continuity of Wisdom	Succession, Transfer, Sessions
Wayfinder	Logic of Discovery	Exploration
Marshal	Security of Action	Risk, Operations, Security Architecture
Mainstay	Structural Anchor	Architecture, Ecosystem, Lifecycle, Loop, State, Worker, Pipeline, Yeoman
Ambassador	Voice Beyond	Influence, Visibility

Initiatives

Initiative	Owner	Status
Entire Integration	Mainstay, Mentor	Active
Agent Optimization	Mainstay	In progress
Orchestration	Mainstay	Contracts defined
Agent Definitions	Mainstay, Marshal	Phase 1 complete
Documentation and Onboarding	Mentor, Ambassador	Phase 2 complete

Deferred

Initiative	Owner	Status
Morpheus Proposal	Wayfinder	Proposal
Fleet Management	Wayfinder, Marshal	Deferred
Geordi Buildout	Wayfinder, Mainstay	Deferred
Container Capture	Mainstay	Deferred

Resolved

Initiative	Owner	Outcome
Feedback Loop	Mentor, Mainstay	Complete
Agent Credentials	Marshal	Simplified
Ecosystem Architecture	Mainstay	Migrated to Lore

How It Works

The council advises on cross-project decisions across the agent stack. Each seat owns a domain. Invoke a seat when its question applies:

• Critic: "What are we refusing to see?"
• Mentor: "Who will carry this forward?"
• Wayfinder: "What's the elegant path through?"
• Marshal: "What's the risk, and am I ready?"
• Mainstay: "What holds this together?"
• Ambassador: "How does the world see us, and what do we need from it?"

Initiatives track cross-project work with an accountable seat. Seat directories hold advisory content -- frameworks and cheat sheets.

Architecture Decision Records

ADR	Status
Dev Directory Tooling	Accepted
Flow SDK Migration	Accepted/Hold
Curated Resume	Accepted

Tooling

• Pre-commit: prettier, markdownlint, vale, lychee (link checker)
• Lore: hooks record seat-level changes to Lore (see hooks/pre-commit)
• Marshal hook: Pre-tool-use safety check via .claude/marshal-blocks

make status tracks initiative acceptance criteria. make links-external verifies cross-repo links. make test includes Marshal hook security tests.

Key Commands

make test            # security + orchestration tests (includes marshal hook)
make check           # format + lint + prose + links
make setup           # install git hooks
make status          # initiative acceptance criteria progress
make links-external  # cross-repo link verification