By name: council description: This skill should be used when the user asks about "multi-perspective analysis", "multiple viewpoints", "council deliberation", "dialectical synthesis", "different perspectives on", "diverse viewpoints", "devil's advocate", "red team this", "stress test this idea", "poke holes in this", or wants to analyze a question from multiple cognitive angles simultaneously. version: 0.2.0
PolyClaude Council — Multi-Perspective Analysis
PolyClaude spawns parallel cognitive perspectives to analyze questions, plans, and ideas from multiple angles, then synthesizes findings through structured dialectical analysis.
When to Use
The /polyclaude command is valuable when:
- Making a significant decision and wanting to stress-test it before committing
- Evaluating a plan or proposal from angles you might not think of alone
- Exploring a problem space before narrowing to a solution
- Wanting a "red team" analysis of an idea
- Needing to present a balanced assessment to stakeholders
The Council
Six cognitive perspectives are available. The User Advocate is always included (unless explicitly excluded); others are selected adaptively based on the question type:
| Perspective | Lens | Always Asks |
|---|---|---|
| User Advocate (default) | Experience, empathy, accessibility | "How does this feel to encounter?" |
| Architect | Systems, structure, scalability | "What are the load-bearing assumptions?" |
| Skeptic | Risks, assumptions, failure modes | "What are we not seeing?" |
| Pragmatist | Simplicity, effort, trade-offs | "What's the simplest thing that works?" |
| Innovator | Alternatives, inversions, creativity | "What would the opposite look like?" |
| Temporal Analyst | Timelines, sequencing, second-order effects | "What does this look like in 6 months?" |
How to Use
Basic
/polyclaude Should we rewrite the auth system or patch it?
Council Size
/polyclaude --quick Is this API design reasonable? # 2 perspectives — fast sanity check
/polyclaude Should we use Redis or Postgres for sessions? # 4 perspectives — default
/polyclaude --full What's our mobile strategy? # 6 perspectives — comprehensive
Quality
/polyclaude --deep What architecture should we use? # Opus agents — maximum depth
/polyclaude --full --deep Should we pivot to B2B? # All 6 on Opus — thorough
Perspective Control
/polyclaude --include temporal,innovator Should we refactor the API?
/polyclaude --exclude pragmatist What if we open-sourced this?
Estimated Costs
| Mode | Perspectives | Sonnet (default) | Opus (--deep) |
|---|---|---|---|
--quick |
2 | ~$0.15 | ~$0.75 |
| (default) | 4 | ~$0.30 | ~$1.50 |
--full |
6 | ~$0.45 | ~$2.25 |
What You Get
A Council Report with:
- Verdict — Bottom-line recommendation
- Consensus Points — Where a strong majority agrees (highest confidence)
- Key Tensions — Structured disagreements with resolution proposals
- Blind Spots — What no perspective addressed
- Confidence Map — Visual certainty/uncertainty across the analysis
- Next Steps — Ordered, actionable items
- Individual Perspectives — Full analyses in collapsible sections
Quick councils (2 perspectives) use a compact format: Verdict, Agreement/Disagreement, Blind Spots, Next Steps.
What Makes This Different
This is not "ask N AI agents the same question." It is structured dialectical analysis:
- Each perspective has a distinct cognitive methodology (not just a different prompt)
- Perspectives are instructed to challenge each other's likely arguments
- Synthesis identifies tensions (not just differences) and proposes resolutions
- Blind spot detection surfaces what nobody addressed
- Output is a decision document, not a discussion transcript
- Council composition adapts to your question type with named presets for size