Open-source MCP 'The High Council' makes frontier models debate your plan before Claude Code builds it
Traditional-Bus-6852 · reddit · 2026-09-26
- A developer open-sourced The High Council (v0.7.8, on npm/GitHub, listed in the MCP Registry), an MCP server that has frontier models from different labs debate your project plan before your coding agent starts building.
- Flow: models propose blindly, debate anonymously across architecture/features/roadmap/philosophy, stop at a checkable result, then a review panel signs off — outputting a full plan plus a HANDOFF.md for Claude Code or any agent, with the whole debate logged.
- Runs via npx the-high-council --mcp; offers a free demo run with no API key and an untested one-click Claude Desktop bundle.
- The author admits it's unproven whether multi-model debate beats repeatedly asking a single strong model, lacks funds to test via OpenRouter, and asks for feedback. The project itself was built entirely with Claude Code.
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