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Model Council

ORCA Framework model council is a portable multi-subagent deliberation pattern for judgment-heavy questions.

It is adapted from Andrej Karpathy's llm-council idea:

  1. independent first opinions
  2. anonymized peer critique and ranking
  3. final chair synthesis

ORCA applies that pattern to product, feature, and business decisions rather than only general question answering.

Default Shape

  • 1 parent chair
  • 5 worker subagents
  • isolated first-pass reasoning
  • anonymized peer review
  • synthesized final recommendation

If the harness does not support native subagents, preserve the same structure as sequential pseudo-subagents.

Why Use It

Use a council when:

  • the decision is high judgment
  • one agent is likely to anchor too fast
  • disagreement is useful
  • the user wants a stronger answer than generic brainstorming

Do not use it when the work is already straightforward implementation.

Use Cases

  • product idea generation and pressure testing
  • marketable business or wedge evaluation
  • deciding whether a new feature deserves roadmap or spec work
  • comparing multiple strategic options

ORCA Skills

  • orca-model-council
  • orca-council-product-idea
  • orca-council-feature-evaluation
  • orca-council-market-opportunity

Operating Rules

  • parent talks to the user
  • workers do not
  • preserve disagreement
  • do not fake consensus
  • end with a decision, not just a transcript

Artifacts