TechCouncil

Four-seat technical decision council for any IT decision — home router to frontier AGI.

The Turing Council (TC4) is a Claude Code skill that runs any technical decision through four named seats — Musk (first principles), Schneier (security + recovery), DHH (operability + cost), and Solomon (verdict). Output is a structured verdict with a smallest testable action.

Designed for solo operators and small teams who need a senior-engineer second opinion in under 500 words.

Install

Three discrete paths. Pick one.

1. Claude Code plugin marketplace

Inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ojesusmp/TechCouncil
/plugin install techcouncil@techcouncil

Verify: open a fresh Claude Code conversation, trigger the skill name, and confirm it responds.

2. Git clone (manual)

Git does not run install scripts — the copy step is manual.

git clone https://github.com/ojesusmp/TechCouncil.git

POSIX:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil
cp TechCouncil/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

Windows PowerShell:

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil" | Out-Null
Copy-Item "TechCouncil\SKILL.md" "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md"

Verify:

sha256sum ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

(Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash

3. npm (postinstall auto-copies SKILL.md)

npm install -g @ojesusmp/techcouncil

Verify: the postinstall log prints [install] copied (sha256=…). To re-check independently:

sha256sum ~/.claude/skills/techcouncil/SKILL.md

(Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\techcouncil\SKILL.md" -Algorithm SHA256).Hash

Windows quirk: npm install -g github:ojesusmp/TechCouncil on Windows + Node 24 + npm 11 may print MODULE_NOT_FOUND and exit 1 even though the postinstall copied SKILL.md successfully. Verify with the SHA above. For a clean exit, use npm pack github:ojesusmp/TechCouncil then npm install -g <generated>.tgz.

Usage

In any Claude Code conversation, invoke the council on a real decision:

techcouncil should I host my marketing site on the existing VPS or rent a new one?

The council runs four turns — Musk, Schneier, DHH, Solomon — and emits a verdict block with a smallest testable action.

See SKILL.md for the full protocol, seat reasoning prompts, scale-dial weights, and an end-to-end example.

The four seats

| Seat | Voice | Owns | |------|-------|------| | Musk | First-principles visionary | Kill list, 10x reframing, anti-clutter | | Schneier | Security + recovery realist | Threat model, data class, manual restore path | | DHH | Pragmatic operator | Maintainability, monthly cost, mobile, vendor count | | Solomon | Synthesis judge | Verdict, smallest testable action |

No fifth seat. No rotating wildcard. Four is the cognitive ceiling for a fast decision.

Defaults

The council runs under these defaults unless overridden:

• Vendor ceiling: +1 per decision
• Cost ceiling: $20 / month new commitment
• Mobile rule: must work on phone browser
• Recovery rule: manual restore documented before ship
• Reject reflex: "may be useful later" → killed
• Approve reflex: "ships safely, simply, solo-operable" → green

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security

See SECURITY.md.

Credits

Built and maintained by Orlando Molina under TruePointAgents.

License

Released under the MIT License.