severally-mcp 2.1.0 → 2.3.1

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  1. package/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md +83 -0
  2. package/CONFIG.md +10 -6
  3. package/README.ja.md +132 -65
  4. package/README.md +136 -69
  5. package/bin/severally-mcp.mjs +3 -0
  6. package/config.example.json +26 -0
  7. package/docs/how-it-works.ja.md +4 -2
  8. package/docs/how-it-works.md +5 -3
  9. package/docs/install.ja.md +12 -5
  10. package/docs/install.md +14 -5
  11. package/package.json +4 -2
  12. package/plugins/severally/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  13. package/plugins/severally/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  14. package/plugins/severally/dist/severally-mcp.mjs +29493 -28302
  15. package/plugins/severally/skills/_template/SKILL.md.tmpl +16 -22
  16. package/plugins/severally/skills/_template/reference.md.tmpl +11 -5
  17. package/plugins/severally/skills/antigravity/severally/SKILL.md +16 -22
  18. package/plugins/severally/skills/antigravity/severally/reference.md +11 -5
  19. package/plugins/severally/skills/claude/severally/SKILL.md +16 -22
  20. package/plugins/severally/skills/claude/severally/reference.md +11 -5
  21. package/plugins/severally/skills/codex/severally/SKILL.md +16 -22
  22. package/plugins/severally/skills/codex/severally/reference.md +11 -5
  23. package/plugins/severally/skills/opencode/severally/SKILL.md +16 -22
  24. package/plugins/severally/skills/opencode/severally/reference.md +11 -5
  25. package/scripts/install.mjs +90 -5
  26. package/src/consultants.mjs +31 -10
  27. package/src/jobs.mjs +123 -11
  28. package/src/policy.mjs +44 -7
  29. package/src/run.mjs +38 -5
  30. package/src/schema.mjs +30 -8
  31. package/src/server.mjs +70 -122
  32. package/src/status.mjs +63 -0
  33. package/src/store.mjs +44 -1
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ description: Use when a decision deserves a second, independent mind - an archit
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  # Consulting a peer agent
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- You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session. They can
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- search and browse the web. They cannot edit files, reach the network outside search/browse, load MCP tools,
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- see your session, or consult anyone else. In practice they know only what you put in the brief and the files you expose to them.{{EXECUTION_CAVEAT}}
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+ You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session that can read files
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+ and search the web, but not edit them, load MCP tools, see your session or consult anyone else. Each knows only
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+ what you put in the brief and the files you expose to it.{{EXECUTION_CAVEAT}}
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  ## A normal consultation is three calls
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  `status` is `running`. To work on something independent meanwhile, ask for a shorter wait (`reference.md`).
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  3. **Check one point, report, and record it once** (see **Before you hand the decision back**).
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- That is the whole routine. The rest of the record — more verdicts, a prediction and reflection, follow-ups,
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- the export into the repository, the details of reading a fan-out — is in `reference.md`, in the same
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- directory as this file. Read it only for a decision you will have to justify later, or when you follow up.
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+ That is the whole routine. The rest — follow-ups, a prediction and reflection, the export, reading a fan-out
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+ in detail — is in `reference.md`, in the same directory as this file. Read it for a decision you will have to
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+ justify later, or when you follow up.
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  ## Pick the consultant
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  specific peer, or when the decision clearly does not warrant that much. This is the one rule for how many to
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  ask.
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- A consultant is one CLI running one model, and the operator decides which ones exist. `consult_start`'s
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- description lists the ones this machine can actually reach as `name: CLI, model`. When the user names one,
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- pass **the word the user used** as `target` — a name, a CLI (`codex`, `agy`), a vendor or a model
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- (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`) — and let the server resolve it. A word that fits several
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- comes back as `target_ambiguous` with the candidates: ask the user which one they meant. One that is not
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- installed comes back as `target_unavailable` with the available list: take that as final and tell the user.
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+ The operator decides which consultants exist; `consult_start`'s description lists the ones this machine can
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+ actually reach. When the user names one, pass **the word the user used** as `target`
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+ (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`). `target_ambiguous`: ask the user which one they meant.
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+ `target_unavailable`: take the available list as final and tell the user.
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  **Do not pick a model yourself.** When the user named no one, ask everyone; overriding the operator's
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  consultants on your own judgement — including after a `usage_limit` failure — substitutes a different mind
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  ## When this is worth it
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- When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo: an architectural or interface decision, a data migration, a
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- security or concurrency design; two options that still look close; an investigation that has stalled after two
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- failed attempts; or the user asked. Not for routine edits, a rename, a test that just needs writing, or
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+ When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo (an interface, a migration, a security or concurrency design),
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+ two options still look close, an investigation has stalled after two attempts, or the user asked. Not for
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  anything you would be comfortable defending on your own.
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  **Before you ask the user to approve a change that is hard to reverse** and nobody else has reviewed it,
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  - **Ask one decidable question.** What runs out the clock is scope, not brief length: when the budget runs out
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  the session is killed and you get nothing. Split "research everything about X" or three questions at once,
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  and ask the one whose answer changes what you do next.
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- - **Hand over the code.** The consultant starts in an empty working directory and is not told where your
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- repository is. Name the files by absolute path in `context.expose_paths` in this first call (at most 20
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- entries, 500 files, 5 MB; never your home directory or one holding keys). A repository root works: only the
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- files git lists are copied, nothing `.gitignore` excludes. Or pass
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+ - **Hand over the code.** The consultant is not told where your repository is. Name the files by absolute path
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+ in `context.expose_paths` (a repository root works; never your home directory or one holding keys), or pass
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  `context.expose_diff: { repo: "<absolute path>" }` for a change you are making. When `consult_start` answers
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  `files_exposed: 0` and the question is about code, `consult_cancel` and start again with `expose_paths`.
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  - **Put the load-bearing facts in `context.facts`**, and test output or a log in `context.artifacts`.
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- - **The mode follows from the context.** Leave `mode` out: no proposal is `explore`, a proposal is `review`, a
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- proposal with `counterpoints` (the other side's claims) is `debate`. To gather opinions without showing your
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- own, leave `context.proposal` empty; a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
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+ - **Leave `mode` out**; it follows from the context. To gather opinions without showing your own, leave
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+ `context.proposal` empty: a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
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  - A constraint is read as fixed and will not be challenged; if it is your own call, put it under `facts` with
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  its reason. For material that must not leave the machine through a URL, pass `network: "off"`.
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  anchoring-sensitive — if you want your plan critiqued, that is `review`.
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  **For a decision heavy enough to be worth two consultations**, ask `explore` first on the facts alone, then
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- `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. Measured on this
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- project: repeat runs of the identical brief did not move the bottom line, while withholding the proposal once
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- did, and the withheld run was the only one to question what the decision was even about.
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+ `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. A consultant that sees
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+ your proposal tends to answer around it; one that does not is more likely to question the framing itself.
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  ## A brief for a decision you will live with
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  (`followup_to: "<previous job_id>"`); the operator can configure 1–20 (`server.max_rounds`), and
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  `rounds_remaining` says what is left. `followup_to: "<group_id>"`, with no `target` or `targets`, sends the same new
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  question to every member of a fan-out, each continuing from its own latest round with its own history; a member
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- that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
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+ that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked.
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+
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+ A follow-up needs only `followup_to` and the new `question`:
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+ `consult_start({ request: { followup_to: "<job_id>", question: "..." } })`. The consultant, the mode, `network` and what
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+ the earlier round was given (objective, constraints, success criteria, facts, proposal, counterpoints,
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+ artifacts) carry over, and the brief restates them; a field you pass replaces the earlier one, an empty list
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+ included. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
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  `context.expose_from_parent: true` to copy again, as they are now, the paths the earlier round exposed (a changed
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  or vanished entry is marked), and leave it off when the follow-up does not need them.
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  Spend follow-ups only where you and the consultant actually diverge: quote the specific point, give the evidence
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  that answers it, and ask what would change their view. Write your verdicts with `consult_record` first: the
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  consultant is shown each earlier point with your verdict, so it answers what your checking found instead of
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- restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart.
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+ restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart; `consult_list` shows an earlier session's
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+ consultations with their `job_id` and `group_id`.
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  After each follow-up, state in one sentence the cause you still differ on. If it is the same as last round and
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  the round brought no new evidence and no new condition that would change the judgement, stop and hand the user
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  # Consulting a peer agent
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- You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session. They can
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- search and browse the web. They cannot edit files, reach the network outside search/browse, load MCP tools,
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- see your session, or consult anyone else. In practice they know only what you put in the brief and the files you expose to them.
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+ You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session that can read files
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+ and search the web, but not edit them, load MCP tools, see your session or consult anyone else. Each knows only
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+ what you put in the brief and the files you expose to it.
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  One caveat on that list: a consultant can read local files. Its writes are blocked,
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  its network reaches only web search and browsing (none with `network: "off"`), credential and history
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  `status` is `running`. To work on something independent meanwhile, ask for a shorter wait (`reference.md`).
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  3. **Check one point, report, and record it once** (see **Before you hand the decision back**).
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- That is the whole routine. The rest of the record — more verdicts, a prediction and reflection, follow-ups,
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- the export into the repository, the details of reading a fan-out — is in `reference.md`, in the same
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- directory as this file. Read it only for a decision you will have to justify later, or when you follow up.
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+ That is the whole routine. The rest — follow-ups, a prediction and reflection, the export, reading a fan-out
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+ in detail — is in `reference.md`, in the same directory as this file. Read it for a decision you will have to
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+ justify later, or when you follow up.
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  ## Pick the consultant
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  specific peer, or when the decision clearly does not warrant that much. This is the one rule for how many to
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  ask.
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- A consultant is one CLI running one model, and the operator decides which ones exist. `consult_start`'s
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- description lists the ones this machine can actually reach as `name: CLI, model`. When the user names one,
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- pass **the word the user used** as `target` — a name, a CLI (`codex`, `agy`), a vendor or a model
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- (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`) — and let the server resolve it. A word that fits several
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- comes back as `target_ambiguous` with the candidates: ask the user which one they meant. One that is not
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- installed comes back as `target_unavailable` with the available list: take that as final and tell the user.
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+ The operator decides which consultants exist; `consult_start`'s description lists the ones this machine can
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+ actually reach. When the user names one, pass **the word the user used** as `target`
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+ (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`). `target_ambiguous`: ask the user which one they meant.
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+ `target_unavailable`: take the available list as final and tell the user.
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  **Do not pick a model yourself.** When the user named no one, ask everyone; overriding the operator's
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  consultants on your own judgement — including after a `usage_limit` failure — substitutes a different mind
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  ## When this is worth it
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- When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo: an architectural or interface decision, a data migration, a
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- security or concurrency design; two options that still look close; an investigation that has stalled after two
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- failed attempts; or the user asked. Not for routine edits, a rename, a test that just needs writing, or
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+ When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo (an interface, a migration, a security or concurrency design),
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+ two options still look close, an investigation has stalled after two attempts, or the user asked. Not for
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  anything you would be comfortable defending on your own.
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  **Before you ask the user to approve a change that is hard to reverse** and nobody else has reviewed it,
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  - **Ask one decidable question.** What runs out the clock is scope, not brief length: when the budget runs out
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  the session is killed and you get nothing. Split "research everything about X" or three questions at once,
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  and ask the one whose answer changes what you do next.
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- - **Hand over the code.** The consultant starts in an empty working directory and is not told where your
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- repository is. Name the files by absolute path in `context.expose_paths` in this first call (at most 20
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- entries, 500 files, 5 MB; never your home directory or one holding keys). A repository root works: only the
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- files git lists are copied, nothing `.gitignore` excludes. Or pass
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+ - **Hand over the code.** The consultant is not told where your repository is. Name the files by absolute path
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+ in `context.expose_paths` (a repository root works; never your home directory or one holding keys), or pass
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  `context.expose_diff: { repo: "<absolute path>" }` for a change you are making. When `consult_start` answers
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  `files_exposed: 0` and the question is about code, `consult_cancel` and start again with `expose_paths`.
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  - **Put the load-bearing facts in `context.facts`**, and test output or a log in `context.artifacts`.
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- - **The mode follows from the context.** Leave `mode` out: no proposal is `explore`, a proposal is `review`, a
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- proposal with `counterpoints` (the other side's claims) is `debate`. To gather opinions without showing your
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- own, leave `context.proposal` empty; a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
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+ - **Leave `mode` out**; it follows from the context. To gather opinions without showing your own, leave
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+ `context.proposal` empty: a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
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  - A constraint is read as fixed and will not be challenged; if it is your own call, put it under `facts` with
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  its reason. For material that must not leave the machine through a URL, pass `network: "off"`.
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  anchoring-sensitive — if you want your plan critiqued, that is `review`.
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  **For a decision heavy enough to be worth two consultations**, ask `explore` first on the facts alone, then
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- `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. Measured on this
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- project: repeat runs of the identical brief did not move the bottom line, while withholding the proposal once
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- did, and the withheld run was the only one to question what the decision was even about.
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+ `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. A consultant that sees
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+ your proposal tends to answer around it; one that does not is more likely to question the framing itself.
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  (`followup_to: "<previous job_id>"`); the operator can configure 1–20 (`server.max_rounds`), and
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  `rounds_remaining` says what is left. `followup_to: "<group_id>"`, with no `target` or `targets`, sends the same new
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  question to every member of a fan-out, each continuing from its own latest round with its own history; a member
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- that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
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+ that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked.
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+
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+ A follow-up needs only `followup_to` and the new `question`:
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+ `consult_start({ request: { followup_to: "<job_id>", question: "..." } })`. The consultant, the mode, `network` and what
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+ the earlier round was given (objective, constraints, success criteria, facts, proposal, counterpoints,
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+ artifacts) carry over, and the brief restates them; a field you pass replaces the earlier one, an empty list
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+ included. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
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  `context.expose_from_parent: true` to copy again, as they are now, the paths the earlier round exposed (a changed
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  or vanished entry is marked), and leave it off when the follow-up does not need them.
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  Spend follow-ups only where you and the consultant actually diverge: quote the specific point, give the evidence
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  that answers it, and ask what would change their view. Write your verdicts with `consult_record` first: the
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  consultant is shown each earlier point with your verdict, so it answers what your checking found instead of
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- restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart.
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+ restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart; `consult_list` shows an earlier session's
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+ consultations with their `job_id` and `group_id`.
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  After each follow-up, state in one sentence the cause you still differ on. If it is the same as last round and
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  the round brought no new evidence and no new condition that would change the judgement, stop and hand the user
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- You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session. They can
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- search and browse the web. They cannot edit files, reach the network outside search/browse, load MCP tools,
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- see your session, or consult anyone else. In practice they know only what you put in the brief and the files you expose to them.
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+ You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session that can read files
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+ and search the web, but not edit them, load MCP tools, see your session or consult anyone else. Each knows only
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+ what you put in the brief and the files you expose to it.
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  One caveat on that list: a consultant can read local files. Its writes are blocked,
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  its network reaches only web search and browsing (none with `network: "off"`), credential and history
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  `status` is `running`. To work on something independent meanwhile, ask for a shorter wait (`reference.md`).
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  3. **Check one point, report, and record it once** (see **Before you hand the decision back**).
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- That is the whole routine. The rest of the record — more verdicts, a prediction and reflection, follow-ups,
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- the export into the repository, the details of reading a fan-out — is in `reference.md`, in the same
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- directory as this file. Read it only for a decision you will have to justify later, or when you follow up.
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+ That is the whole routine. The rest — follow-ups, a prediction and reflection, the export, reading a fan-out
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+ in detail — is in `reference.md`, in the same directory as this file. Read it for a decision you will have to
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+ justify later, or when you follow up.
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  ## Pick the consultant
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  specific peer, or when the decision clearly does not warrant that much. This is the one rule for how many to
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  ask.
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- A consultant is one CLI running one model, and the operator decides which ones exist. `consult_start`'s
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- description lists the ones this machine can actually reach as `name: CLI, model`. When the user names one,
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- pass **the word the user used** as `target` — a name, a CLI (`codex`, `agy`), a vendor or a model
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- (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`) — and let the server resolve it. A word that fits several
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- comes back as `target_ambiguous` with the candidates: ask the user which one they meant. One that is not
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- installed comes back as `target_unavailable` with the available list: take that as final and tell the user.
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+ The operator decides which consultants exist; `consult_start`'s description lists the ones this machine can
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+ actually reach. When the user names one, pass **the word the user used** as `target`
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+ (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`). `target_ambiguous`: ask the user which one they meant.
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+ `target_unavailable`: take the available list as final and tell the user.
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  **Do not pick a model yourself.** When the user named no one, ask everyone; overriding the operator's
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  consultants on your own judgement — including after a `usage_limit` failure — substitutes a different mind
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- When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo: an architectural or interface decision, a data migration, a
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- security or concurrency design; two options that still look close; an investigation that has stalled after two
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- failed attempts; or the user asked. Not for routine edits, a rename, a test that just needs writing, or
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+ When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo (an interface, a migration, a security or concurrency design),
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+ two options still look close, an investigation has stalled after two attempts, or the user asked. Not for
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  **Before you ask the user to approve a change that is hard to reverse** and nobody else has reviewed it,
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  - **Ask one decidable question.** What runs out the clock is scope, not brief length: when the budget runs out
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  the session is killed and you get nothing. Split "research everything about X" or three questions at once,
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  and ask the one whose answer changes what you do next.
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- - **Hand over the code.** The consultant starts in an empty working directory and is not told where your
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- repository is. Name the files by absolute path in `context.expose_paths` in this first call (at most 20
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- entries, 500 files, 5 MB; never your home directory or one holding keys). A repository root works: only the
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- files git lists are copied, nothing `.gitignore` excludes. Or pass
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+ - **Hand over the code.** The consultant is not told where your repository is. Name the files by absolute path
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+ in `context.expose_paths` (a repository root works; never your home directory or one holding keys), or pass
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  `context.expose_diff: { repo: "<absolute path>" }` for a change you are making. When `consult_start` answers
101
96
  `files_exposed: 0` and the question is about code, `consult_cancel` and start again with `expose_paths`.
102
97
  - **Put the load-bearing facts in `context.facts`**, and test output or a log in `context.artifacts`.
103
- - **The mode follows from the context.** Leave `mode` out: no proposal is `explore`, a proposal is `review`, a
104
- proposal with `counterpoints` (the other side's claims) is `debate`. To gather opinions without showing your
105
- own, leave `context.proposal` empty; a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
98
+ - **Leave `mode` out**; it follows from the context. To gather opinions without showing your own, leave
99
+ `context.proposal` empty: a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
106
100
  - A constraint is read as fixed and will not be challenged; if it is your own call, put it under `facts` with
107
101
  its reason. For material that must not leave the machine through a URL, pass `network: "off"`.
108
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  anchoring-sensitive — if you want your plan critiqued, that is `review`.
18
18
 
19
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  **For a decision heavy enough to be worth two consultations**, ask `explore` first on the facts alone, then
20
- `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. Measured on this
21
- project: repeat runs of the identical brief did not move the bottom line, while withholding the proposal once
22
- did, and the withheld run was the only one to question what the decision was even about.
20
+ `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. A consultant that sees
21
+ your proposal tends to answer around it; one that does not is more likely to question the framing itself.
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  ## A brief for a decision you will live with
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  (`followup_to: "<previous job_id>"`); the operator can configure 1–20 (`server.max_rounds`), and
130
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  `rounds_remaining` says what is left. `followup_to: "<group_id>"`, with no `target` or `targets`, sends the same new
131
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  question to every member of a fan-out, each continuing from its own latest round with its own history; a member
132
- that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
131
+ that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked.
132
+
133
+ A follow-up needs only `followup_to` and the new `question`:
134
+ `consult_start({ request: { followup_to: "<job_id>", question: "..." } })`. The consultant, the mode, `network` and what
135
+ the earlier round was given (objective, constraints, success criteria, facts, proposal, counterpoints,
136
+ artifacts) carry over, and the brief restates them; a field you pass replaces the earlier one, an empty list
137
+ included. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
133
138
  `context.expose_from_parent: true` to copy again, as they are now, the paths the earlier round exposed (a changed
134
139
  or vanished entry is marked), and leave it off when the follow-up does not need them.
135
140
 
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141
  Spend follow-ups only where you and the consultant actually diverge: quote the specific point, give the evidence
137
142
  that answers it, and ask what would change their view. Write your verdicts with `consult_record` first: the
138
143
  consultant is shown each earlier point with your verdict, so it answers what your checking found instead of
139
- restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart.
144
+ restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart; `consult_list` shows an earlier session's
145
+ consultations with their `job_id` and `group_id`.
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146
 
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  After each follow-up, state in one sentence the cause you still differ on. If it is the same as last round and
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  the round brought no new evidence and no new condition that would change the judgement, stop and hand the user
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ description: Use when a decision deserves a second, independent mind - an archit
5
5
 
6
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  # Consulting a peer agent
7
7
 
8
- You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session. They can
9
- search and browse the web. They cannot edit files, reach the network outside search/browse, load MCP tools,
10
- see your session, or consult anyone else. In practice they know only what you put in the brief and the files you expose to them.
8
+ You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session that can read files
9
+ and search the web, but not edit them, load MCP tools, see your session or consult anyone else. Each knows only
10
+ what you put in the brief and the files you expose to it.
11
11
 
12
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  One caveat on that list: a consultant can read local files. Its writes are blocked,
13
13
  its network reaches only web search and browsing (none with `network: "off"`), credential and history
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ copied read-only into its working directory.
34
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  `status` is `running`. To work on something independent meanwhile, ask for a shorter wait (`reference.md`).
35
35
  3. **Check one point, report, and record it once** (see **Before you hand the decision back**).
36
36
 
37
- That is the whole routine. The rest of the record — more verdicts, a prediction and reflection, follow-ups,
38
- the export into the repository, the details of reading a fan-out — is in `reference.md`, in the same
39
- directory as this file. Read it only for a decision you will have to justify later, or when you follow up.
37
+ That is the whole routine. The rest — follow-ups, a prediction and reflection, the export, reading a fan-out
38
+ in detail — is in `reference.md`, in the same directory as this file. Read it for a decision you will have to
39
+ justify later, or when you follow up.
40
40
 
41
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  ## Pick the consultant
42
42
 
@@ -54,12 +54,10 @@ costs one consultation's quota per consultant. Narrow to `target` (singular) onl
54
54
  specific peer, or when the decision clearly does not warrant that much. This is the one rule for how many to
55
55
  ask.
56
56
 
57
- A consultant is one CLI running one model, and the operator decides which ones exist. `consult_start`'s
58
- description lists the ones this machine can actually reach as `name: CLI, model`. When the user names one,
59
- pass **the word the user used** as `target` — a name, a CLI (`codex`, `agy`), a vendor or a model
60
- (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`) — and let the server resolve it. A word that fits several
61
- comes back as `target_ambiguous` with the candidates: ask the user which one they meant. One that is not
62
- installed comes back as `target_unavailable` with the available list: take that as final and tell the user.
57
+ The operator decides which consultants exist; `consult_start`'s description lists the ones this machine can
58
+ actually reach. When the user names one, pass **the word the user used** as `target`
59
+ (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`). `target_ambiguous`: ask the user which one they meant.
60
+ `target_unavailable`: take the available list as final and tell the user.
63
61
 
64
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  **Do not pick a model yourself.** When the user named no one, ask everyone; overriding the operator's
65
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  consultants on your own judgement — including after a `usage_limit` failure — substitutes a different mind
@@ -73,9 +71,8 @@ answer can say which model answered.
73
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74
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  ## When this is worth it
75
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76
- When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo: an architectural or interface decision, a data migration, a
77
- security or concurrency design; two options that still look close; an investigation that has stalled after two
78
- failed attempts; or the user asked. Not for routine edits, a rename, a test that just needs writing, or
74
+ When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo (an interface, a migration, a security or concurrency design),
75
+ two options still look close, an investigation has stalled after two attempts, or the user asked. Not for
79
76
  anything you would be comfortable defending on your own.
80
77
 
81
78
  **Before you ask the user to approve a change that is hard to reverse** and nobody else has reviewed it,
@@ -92,16 +89,13 @@ Pass `initiator: "user"` when the user asked for the consultation; leave it out
92
89
  - **Ask one decidable question.** What runs out the clock is scope, not brief length: when the budget runs out
93
90
  the session is killed and you get nothing. Split "research everything about X" or three questions at once,
94
91
  and ask the one whose answer changes what you do next.
95
- - **Hand over the code.** The consultant starts in an empty working directory and is not told where your
96
- repository is. Name the files by absolute path in `context.expose_paths` in this first call (at most 20
97
- entries, 500 files, 5 MB; never your home directory or one holding keys). A repository root works: only the
98
- files git lists are copied, nothing `.gitignore` excludes. Or pass
92
+ - **Hand over the code.** The consultant is not told where your repository is. Name the files by absolute path
93
+ in `context.expose_paths` (a repository root works; never your home directory or one holding keys), or pass
99
94
  `context.expose_diff: { repo: "<absolute path>" }` for a change you are making. When `consult_start` answers
100
95
  `files_exposed: 0` and the question is about code, `consult_cancel` and start again with `expose_paths`.
101
96
  - **Put the load-bearing facts in `context.facts`**, and test output or a log in `context.artifacts`.
102
- - **The mode follows from the context.** Leave `mode` out: no proposal is `explore`, a proposal is `review`, a
103
- proposal with `counterpoints` (the other side's claims) is `debate`. To gather opinions without showing your
104
- own, leave `context.proposal` empty; a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
97
+ - **Leave `mode` out**; it follows from the context. To gather opinions without showing your own, leave
98
+ `context.proposal` empty: a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
105
99
  - A constraint is read as fixed and will not be challenged; if it is your own call, put it under `facts` with
106
100
  its reason. For material that must not leave the machine through a URL, pass `network: "off"`.
107
101
 
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ checked as given: the server rejects a first-round `explore` that carries a prop
17
17
  anchoring-sensitive — if you want your plan critiqued, that is `review`.
18
18
 
19
19
  **For a decision heavy enough to be worth two consultations**, ask `explore` first on the facts alone, then
20
- `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. Measured on this
21
- project: repeat runs of the identical brief did not move the bottom line, while withholding the proposal once
22
- did, and the withheld run was the only one to question what the decision was even about.
20
+ `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. A consultant that sees
21
+ your proposal tends to answer around it; one that does not is more likely to question the framing itself.
23
22
 
24
23
  ## A brief for a decision you will live with
25
24
 
@@ -129,14 +128,21 @@ By default a chain has five rounds: one initial round plus up to four follow-ups
129
128
  (`followup_to: "<previous job_id>"`); the operator can configure 1–20 (`server.max_rounds`), and
130
129
  `rounds_remaining` says what is left. `followup_to: "<group_id>"`, with no `target` or `targets`, sends the same new
131
130
  question to every member of a fan-out, each continuing from its own latest round with its own history; a member
132
- that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
131
+ that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked.
132
+
133
+ A follow-up needs only `followup_to` and the new `question`:
134
+ `consult_start({ request: { followup_to: "<job_id>", question: "..." } })`. The consultant, the mode, `network` and what
135
+ the earlier round was given (objective, constraints, success criteria, facts, proposal, counterpoints,
136
+ artifacts) carry over, and the brief restates them; a field you pass replaces the earlier one, an empty list
137
+ included. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
133
138
  `context.expose_from_parent: true` to copy again, as they are now, the paths the earlier round exposed (a changed
134
139
  or vanished entry is marked), and leave it off when the follow-up does not need them.
135
140
 
136
141
  Spend follow-ups only where you and the consultant actually diverge: quote the specific point, give the evidence
137
142
  that answers it, and ask what would change their view. Write your verdicts with `consult_record` first: the
138
143
  consultant is shown each earlier point with your verdict, so it answers what your checking found instead of
139
- restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart.
144
+ restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart; `consult_list` shows an earlier session's
145
+ consultations with their `job_id` and `group_id`.
140
146
 
141
147
  After each follow-up, state in one sentence the cause you still differ on. If it is the same as last round and
142
148
  the round brought no new evidence and no new condition that would change the judgement, stop and hand the user
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ description: Use when a decision deserves a second, independent mind - an archit
5
5
 
6
6
  # Consulting a peer agent
7
7
 
8
- You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session. They can
9
- search and browse the web. They cannot edit files, reach the network outside search/browse, load MCP tools,
10
- see your session, or consult anyone else. In practice they know only what you put in the brief and the files you expose to them.
8
+ You have three peers, each reached through the `severally` MCP server as a fresh child session that can read files
9
+ and search the web, but not edit them, load MCP tools, see your session or consult anyone else. Each knows only
10
+ what you put in the brief and the files you expose to it.
11
11
 
12
12
  One caveat on that list: a consultant can read local files. Its writes are blocked,
13
13
  its network reaches only web search and browsing (none with `network: "off"`), credential and history
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ copied read-only into its working directory. The Codex consultant additionally h
34
34
  `status` is `running`. To work on something independent meanwhile, ask for a shorter wait (`reference.md`).
35
35
  3. **Check one point, report, and record it once** (see **Before you hand the decision back**).
36
36
 
37
- That is the whole routine. The rest of the record — more verdicts, a prediction and reflection, follow-ups,
38
- the export into the repository, the details of reading a fan-out — is in `reference.md`, in the same
39
- directory as this file. Read it only for a decision you will have to justify later, or when you follow up.
37
+ That is the whole routine. The rest — follow-ups, a prediction and reflection, the export, reading a fan-out
38
+ in detail — is in `reference.md`, in the same directory as this file. Read it for a decision you will have to
39
+ justify later, or when you follow up.
40
40
 
41
41
  ## Pick the consultant
42
42
 
@@ -54,12 +54,10 @@ costs one consultation's quota per consultant. Narrow to `target` (singular) onl
54
54
  specific peer, or when the decision clearly does not warrant that much. This is the one rule for how many to
55
55
  ask.
56
56
 
57
- A consultant is one CLI running one model, and the operator decides which ones exist. `consult_start`'s
58
- description lists the ones this machine can actually reach as `name: CLI, model`. When the user names one,
59
- pass **the word the user used** as `target` — a name, a CLI (`codex`, `agy`), a vendor or a model
60
- (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`) — and let the server resolve it. A word that fits several
61
- comes back as `target_ambiguous` with the candidates: ask the user which one they meant. One that is not
62
- installed comes back as `target_unavailable` with the available list: take that as final and tell the user.
57
+ The operator decides which consultants exist; `consult_start`'s description lists the ones this machine can
58
+ actually reach. When the user names one, pass **the word the user used** as `target`
59
+ (「Claude Opusと相談して」 is `target: "claude opus"`). `target_ambiguous`: ask the user which one they meant.
60
+ `target_unavailable`: take the available list as final and tell the user.
63
61
 
64
62
  **Do not pick a model yourself.** When the user named no one, ask everyone; overriding the operator's
65
63
  consultants on your own judgement — including after a `usage_limit` failure — substitutes a different mind
@@ -73,9 +71,8 @@ answer can say which model answered.
73
71
 
74
72
  ## When this is worth it
75
73
 
76
- When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo: an architectural or interface decision, a data migration, a
77
- security or concurrency design; two options that still look close; an investigation that has stalled after two
78
- failed attempts; or the user asked. Not for routine edits, a rename, a test that just needs writing, or
74
+ When a wrong answer is expensive or hard to undo (an interface, a migration, a security or concurrency design),
75
+ two options still look close, an investigation has stalled after two attempts, or the user asked. Not for
79
76
  anything you would be comfortable defending on your own.
80
77
 
81
78
  **Before you ask the user to approve a change that is hard to reverse** and nobody else has reviewed it,
@@ -92,16 +89,13 @@ Pass `initiator: "user"` when the user asked for the consultation; leave it out
92
89
  - **Ask one decidable question.** What runs out the clock is scope, not brief length: when the budget runs out
93
90
  the session is killed and you get nothing. Split "research everything about X" or three questions at once,
94
91
  and ask the one whose answer changes what you do next.
95
- - **Hand over the code.** The consultant starts in an empty working directory and is not told where your
96
- repository is. Name the files by absolute path in `context.expose_paths` in this first call (at most 20
97
- entries, 500 files, 5 MB; never your home directory or one holding keys). A repository root works: only the
98
- files git lists are copied, nothing `.gitignore` excludes. Or pass
92
+ - **Hand over the code.** The consultant is not told where your repository is. Name the files by absolute path
93
+ in `context.expose_paths` (a repository root works; never your home directory or one holding keys), or pass
99
94
  `context.expose_diff: { repo: "<absolute path>" }` for a change you are making. When `consult_start` answers
100
95
  `files_exposed: 0` and the question is about code, `consult_cancel` and start again with `expose_paths`.
101
96
  - **Put the load-bearing facts in `context.facts`**, and test output or a log in `context.artifacts`.
102
- - **The mode follows from the context.** Leave `mode` out: no proposal is `explore`, a proposal is `review`, a
103
- proposal with `counterpoints` (the other side's claims) is `debate`. To gather opinions without showing your
104
- own, leave `context.proposal` empty; a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
97
+ - **Leave `mode` out**; it follows from the context. To gather opinions without showing your own, leave
98
+ `context.proposal` empty: a reviewed plan is answered around the plan.
105
99
  - A constraint is read as fixed and will not be challenged; if it is your own call, put it under `facts` with
106
100
  its reason. For material that must not leave the machine through a URL, pass `network: "off"`.
107
101
 
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ checked as given: the server rejects a first-round `explore` that carries a prop
17
17
  anchoring-sensitive — if you want your plan critiqued, that is `review`.
18
18
 
19
19
  **For a decision heavy enough to be worth two consultations**, ask `explore` first on the facts alone, then
20
- `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. Measured on this
21
- project: repeat runs of the identical brief did not move the bottom line, while withholding the proposal once
22
- did, and the withheld run was the only one to question what the decision was even about.
20
+ `review` with the proposal, and read what the first raised that the second never did. A consultant that sees
21
+ your proposal tends to answer around it; one that does not is more likely to question the framing itself.
23
22
 
24
23
  ## A brief for a decision you will live with
25
24
 
@@ -129,14 +128,21 @@ By default a chain has five rounds: one initial round plus up to four follow-ups
129
128
  (`followup_to: "<previous job_id>"`); the operator can configure 1–20 (`server.max_rounds`), and
130
129
  `rounds_remaining` says what is left. `followup_to: "<group_id>"`, with no `target` or `targets`, sends the same new
131
130
  question to every member of a fan-out, each continuing from its own latest round with its own history; a member
132
- that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
131
+ that is still running, never answered or has used its rounds is listed under `skipped` and not asked.
132
+
133
+ A follow-up needs only `followup_to` and the new `question`:
134
+ `consult_start({ request: { followup_to: "<job_id>", question: "..." } })`. The consultant, the mode, `network` and what
135
+ the earlier round was given (objective, constraints, success criteria, facts, proposal, counterpoints,
136
+ artifacts) carry over, and the brief restates them; a field you pass replaces the earlier one, an empty list
137
+ included. A follow-up starts in a fresh working directory with no files: pass
133
138
  `context.expose_from_parent: true` to copy again, as they are now, the paths the earlier round exposed (a changed
134
139
  or vanished entry is marked), and leave it off when the follow-up does not need them.
135
140
 
136
141
  Spend follow-ups only where you and the consultant actually diverge: quote the specific point, give the evidence
137
142
  that answers it, and ask what would change their view. Write your verdicts with `consult_record` first: the
138
143
  consultant is shown each earlier point with your verdict, so it answers what your checking found instead of
139
- restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart.
144
+ restating it. A follow-up works across a server restart; `consult_list` shows an earlier session's
145
+ consultations with their `job_id` and `group_id`.
140
146
 
141
147
  After each follow-up, state in one sentence the cause you still differ on. If it is the same as last round and
142
148
  the round brought no new evidence and no new condition that would change the judgement, stop and hand the user