v1.0.0

imbhargav5/open-recorderv1.0.0Mar 30, 2026by 0xNyk

AI Summary

The first stable release introduces the Council of High Intelligence, featuring 18 historical thinkers who solve complex problems across multiple AI providers. It introduces auto-routing capabilities, a problem restatement gate, and streamlined protocols to improve efficiency and output clarity.

Key Highlights

Multi-Provider Auto-Routing that detects installed LLMs and distributes members to ensure model diversity.
Problem Restate Gate to validate questions and catch failures before analysis begins.
Verdict templates now prioritize actionable steps like next steps over technical epistemic scores.
Streamlined protocol reduces enforcement steps from 9 to 7 and adds outcome tracking.
Three new deliberation modes: Full, Quick, and Duo.

New Features

Auto-detection script for installed LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama).
Routing algorithm that separates polarity pairs across providers and respects affinity hints.
Problem Restate Gate enforcement for all council members.
Reordered verdict templates focusing on Unresolved Questions and Recommended Next Steps.
Streamlined protocol merging 3 enforcement steps into a single post-round scan.
Outcome tracking with a Follow-Up section in all verdict templates.
Consolidated member metadata into agent YAML frontmatter.
Three deliberation modes: Full, Quick, and Duo.

Full Release Notes

# Council of High Intelligence v1.0.0

The first stable release. 18 historical thinkers deliberate on your hardest problems — now across multiple AI providers.

## What's New

### Multi-Provider Auto-Routing
The council automatically detects installed LLM providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI via Codex, Google Gemini, Ollama local models) and distributes members across them for genuine model diversity. Zero config required.

- **Auto-detection script** probes for available providers and outputs structured JSON
- **Routing algorithm** separates polarity pairs across providers, spreads evenly, respects per-member affinity hints
- **Dispatch logic** for `codex exec`, `gemini -p`, `ollama run` with automatic fallback to Claude on failure
- New flags: `--no-auto-route`, `--dry-route`

### Problem Restate Gate
Each council member must restate the problem + provide an alternative framing before analysis begins. Catches wrong-question failures before burning rounds on them.

### Verdict Template Reorder
Verdicts now lead with **Unresolved Questions** and **Recommended Next Steps** — what the user needs to act on — instead of burying them below epistemic scorecards.

### Streamlined Protocol
- Merged 3 enforcement steps into 1 post-round scan (9 steps → 7)
- Added outcome tracking (Follow-Up section in all verdict templates)
- Consolidated member metadata into agent YAML frontmatter (one source of truth per member)

## The 18 Council Members

| Member | Domain | Default Model |
|--------|--------|---------------|
| Aristotle | Categorization & structure | opus |
| Socrates | Assumption destruction | opus |
| Sun Tzu | Adversarial strategy | sonnet |
| Ada Lovelace | Formal systems & abstraction | sonnet |
| Marcus Aurelius | Resilience & moral clarity | opus |
| Machiavelli | Power dynamics & realpolitik | sonnet |
| Lao Tzu | Non-action & emergence | opus |
| Feynman | First-principles debugging | sonnet |
| Linus Torvalds | Pragmatic engineering | sonnet |
| Miyamoto Musashi | Strategic timing | sonnet |
| Alan Watts | Perspective & reframing | opus |
| Andrej Karpathy | Neural network intuition | sonnet |
| Ilya Sutskever | Scaling frontier & AI safety | opus |
| Daniel Kahneman | Cognitive bias & decision science | opus |
| Donella Meadows | Systems thinking & feedback loops | sonnet |
| Charlie Munger | Multi-model reasoning & economics | sonnet |
| Nassim Taleb | Antifragility & tail risk | opus |
| Dieter Rams | User-centered design | sonnet |

## 3 Deliberation Modes

- **Full** — 3-round deliberation with cross-examination, enforcement, and synthesis
- **Quick** — 2-round rapid analysis for simpler questions
- **Duo** — 2-member dialectic using polarity pairs

## Installation

```bash
git clone https://github.com/0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence.git
cd council-of-high-intelligence
./install.sh
```

Then restart Claude Code and use `/council` to convene.