Executive Council Core

council-action-first

Use inside Samuel's Executive Council when a response, handoff, or instruction should minimize friction and make the next useful action obvious without reducing intellectual rigor.

council-critical-validation

Use for Executive Council decisions with material, irreversible, sensitive, financial, legal, clinical, safety, privacy, or cross-domain consequences.

council-evidence-research

Use when an Executive Council decision needs external evidence, current facts, scientific literature, official documentation, legal or regulatory sources, product facts, benchmarks, or fact-checking.

council-execution-harness

Use when Samuel gives the Executive Council a multi-step objective spanning tools, files, apps, executors, or domains and expects the system to carry it through rather than return a to-do list.

council-external-ai-handoff

Use when work can be delegated to another AI, model, or platform to save cost, tokens, or time while the Executive Council retains specification, authority, and validation.

council-human-gate

Use when Executive Council work reaches a point where Samuel's direct involvement may be required for authorization, authentication, sensitive or destructive action, external commitment, or a genuinely subjective choice.

council-systematic-debugging

Use for bugs, broken automations, integration failures, unexpected behavior, performance problems, bad outputs, or repeated failed attempts in the Executive Council.

council-verification-gate

Use immediately before claiming Executive Council work is complete, fixed, sent, paid, deployed, updated, reconciled, migrated, or otherwise successful.