Partial Consensus Skill

This skill determines consensus and exposes disagreements from a multi-agent debate with dual proposers.

Modes

1. •Standard mode: Determines consensus/disagreement, generates options for disagreements
2. •Resolve mode: Same 5 reports but with "User Resolution" section appended, produces unified plan

Key Features

• •No Automatic Dropping: AI cannot drop ideas from proposals; all contested ideas become Disagreement sections
• •Mandatory Developer Arbitration: Disagreements require explicit developer selection via --resolve mode
• •Flexible Options: Minimum 2, recommended 3, no upper limit per disagreement
• •Source Attribution: Each option must cite its source (Bold, Paranoia, Hybrid, etc.)
• •AI Recommendations: Advisory only; developer must select
• •Collapsible Code Drafts: <details> tags for implementation details

Inputs

This skill requires 5 agent report file paths, with optional 6th and 7th arguments:

• •Report 1: Bold proposer report (.tmp/issue-{N}-bold.md)
• •Report 2: Paranoia proposer report (.tmp/issue-{N}-paranoia.md)
• •Report 3: Critique report (.tmp/issue-{N}-critique.md)
• •Report 4: Proposal reducer report (.tmp/issue-{N}-proposal-reducer.md)
• •Report 5: Code reducer report (.tmp/issue-{N}-code-reducer.md)
• •Arg 6 (optional): Previous consensus file (.tmp/issue-{N}-consensus.md)
• •Arg 7 (optional): History file (.tmp/issue-{N}-history.md)

Context ordering rationale: The combined report is assembled as: agent reports (1-5) -> previous consensus (6) -> history (7). This ensures the AI sees the history table's last row (current task) as the final context, leveraging LLM recency bias to prioritize the current request.

For resolve/refine modes: Pass both 6th and 7th arguments:

1. •consensus.md as arg 6 (previous plan being modified)
2. •history.md as arg 7 (operation history with current task in last row)

Outputs

Files created:

• •.tmp/issue-{N}-debate.md - Combined 5-agent debate report (7 parts if resolve mode)
• •.tmp/issue-{N}-consensus.md - Final plan(s)
• •.tmp/issue-{N}-history.md - Accumulated selection and refine history

For resolve/refine mode, the debate file includes additional sections:

• •Part 6: Previous Consensus Plan (from consensus.md)
• •Part 7: Selection & Refine History (from history file, last row = current task)

Output format:

See partial-review-prompt.md for complete output format specification.

Implementation Workflow

Step 1: Invoke Partial Consensus Script

.claude/skills/partial-consensus/scripts/partial-consensus.sh \
    .tmp/issue-42-bold.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-paranoia.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-critique.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-proposal-reducer.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-code-reducer.md

Script automatically:

1. •Validates all 5 report files exist
2. •Extracts issue number from first report filename
3. •Combines all 5 reports into debate report
4. •Invokes external AI (Codex or Claude Opus)
5. •Determines if consensus or multiple options
6. •Saves result to consensus file

Timeout: 30 minutes (same as external-consensus)

Error Handling

Usage Examples

# Standard mode
.claude/skills/partial-consensus/scripts/partial-consensus.sh \
    .tmp/issue-42-bold.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-paranoia.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-critique.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-proposal-reducer.md \
    .tmp/issue-42-code-reducer.md

Output (stdout, last line):

.tmp/issue-42-consensus.md