the-high-council 0.7.6 → 0.7.8

package/.env.example

@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@ ZAI_API_KEY=
 # resumes with a higher ceiling. Unset means $7. Use --max-usd none to run
 # without a ceiling.
 MAX_USD_PER_RUN=7
+
+# Optional settings (README "Setup" lists them all): COUNCIL_WORKDIR and
+# COUNCIL_MAX_USD_LIMIT for the MCP server, COUNCIL_ALLOW_LOOPBACK_KEY_HOST=1
+# for a local proxy in front of a keyed provider, OLLAMA_API_KEY,
+# COUNCIL_PERSONAS_FILE, AUDIT_HMAC_KEY_FILE.

package/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ discussion first.
    in `node --test`, real calls are opt-in and cost real money.
 
 2. **A new chain config** (`chains/*.json`). A chain is data, not code - it names which seats run
-   which stages. `council doctor` validates any chain you add against every shipped-provider's key
-   presence and prices it worst-case with zero network calls; run that against your new file
-   before opening a PR. Look at `chains/plan-debate.json` or `chains/verify.json` as a starting
+   which stages. `council doctor --chain chains/<yours>.json` lints it (the same rules every run
+   applies, including the denied-model and `key-host` rules), and `council doctor` prices it
+   worst-case, both with zero network calls; run both against your new file before opening a PR. Look at `chains/plan-debate.json` or `chains/verify.json` as a starting
    shape depending on whether you want a debate-and-panel chain or a single-critic chain.
 
 3. **A new mock fixture** (`src/providers.js`'s `callMock`, exercised from `test/*.test.js`). If

package/PERSONAS.md

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ from the same public-domain legend and is not itself claimed as anyone's tradema
 here is a secondary association in a reader's mind, not a legal one - worth having on the record,
 not worth revisiting a decision already made.
 
+A `role.persona` key that is not in the set in use is sent as a bare name, with no voice
+directive. `plan-premium-7` seats two such keys, `hypatia` and `avicenna`, next to the five
+defaults: without a persona file of your own they reach the debate prompt as those names alone.
+
 **You can replace the whole set.** `loadPersonas()` in `src/personas.js` reads an operator-supplied
 JSON file (path via the `COUNCIL_PERSONAS_FILE` environment variable, or passed directly) and uses
 it in place of the default five entirely - nothing in this repo needs editing to do that. A