THE OLYMPIAN COUNCIL · 9 Greek seats that test your work before it ships
WAKES WHEN stress-test a plan before it ships; convene the council on my draft; Hermes, review this
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE OLYMPIAN COUNCIL.`
ASK — the work, and which seats: one, several, or the whole council.
SEAT — each named seat asks its one question (references/THE-SEATS.md, its voice in references/seats/) and answers in four parts: verdict, the failure, the smallest fix, what it does not address.
COUNCIL — when more than one seat has spoken: what passed, what failed, the one change first.
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
the work rewritten for you
a seat outside its lens
myth invented to fill a gap
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IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
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What it is.
The Olympian Council reviews your draft, plan, decision or build: 9 seats from the Greek record, each asking one question of it and nothing else — Zeus on who is the final decider here, and is the chain of command unambiguous, Athena on does this move advance the war, or only win the skirmish, Hermes on will the recipient understand what was sent in exactly the way the sender intended, and the rest in references/THE-SEATS.md. When more than one seat speaks, the council sums up.
The seats critique; they never rewrite. Each answers in four parts — verdict, the failure, the smallest fix, what it does not address — from the record (Hesiod · Theogony; Homer · Iliad and Odyssey), never invented canon.
Its laws, written into the card.
One question per seat; a seat defers when asked another seat's question.
Critique, never rewriting: the fix proposed is the smallest one that passes the lens.
No invented canon: a seat says so when a question falls outside its tradition.
When more than one seat speaks, the council sums up — what passed, what failed, the one change that matters most — and adds no lens of its own.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE OLYMPIAN COUNCIL.`
ASK — the work, and which seats: one, several, or the whole council.
SEAT — each named seat asks its one question (references/THE-SEATS.md, its voice in references/seats/) and answers in four parts: verdict, the failure, the smallest fix, what it does not address.
COUNCIL — when more than one seat has spoken: what passed, what failed, the one change first.
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Rewriting the work instead of reviewing it.
Speaking for a seat outside its one question.
Inventing myth to fill a gap in the record.
A legal, medical or financial ruling → a licensed professional; a council of your own → THE COUNCIL CARD.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-SEATS.md · references/seats/01-zeus.md · references/seats/02-athena.md · references/seats/03-hermes.md · references/seats/04-apollo.md · references/seats/05-ares.md · references/seats/06-aphrodite.md · references/seats/07-poseidon.md · references/seats/08-artemis.md · references/seats/09-hades.md · references/sigils/aphrodite.svg · references/sigils/apollo.svg · references/sigils/ares.svg · references/sigils/artemis.svg · references/sigils/athena.svg · references/sigils/hades.svg · references/sigils/hermes.svg · references/sigils/poseidon.svg · references/sigils/zeus.svg · references/council.json · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
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