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name: pentarchy description: Multi-disciplinary strategy council with 5 expert personas. Use for strategic analysis, impact assessment, complex decisions requiring diverse expertise. Includes cross-examination to identify contradictions between experts.

The Pentarchy: Multi-Disciplinary Strategy Council

When to Activate

Use this skill when the user requests:

• Strategic analysis requiring multiple perspectives
• Impact assessment across domains
• Complex decisions with trade-offs
• Policy or business strategy evaluation
• User explicitly mentions "pentarchy" or "council analysis"

Architecture

5 Expert Personas + Devil's Advocate + Chairperson

The Council (5 parallel experts)

Default personas (customizable per query):

1. Economist - Market forces, incentives, costs
2. Technologist - Feasibility, implementation, timelines
3. Ethicist - Values, fairness, unintended consequences
4. Strategist - Competition, positioning, risk
5. Practitioner - Real-world execution, human factors

Cross-Examination

• Devil's Advocate - Reads all 5 reports and identifies CONTRADICTIONS
• Chairperson - Weighs trade-offs and issues final ruling

Invocation

Copypython3 ~/.claude/skills/pentarchy/pentarchy.py "Your strategic question here"

Custom Personas

Copypython3 ~/.claude/skills/pentarchy/pentarchy.py "Your question" --personas "Scientist,Lawyer,Marketer,Engineer,Ethicist"

Example Usage

User: "Should Australia invest heavily in nuclear power?"

Copypython3 ~/.claude/skills/pentarchy/pentarchy.py "Should Australia invest heavily in nuclear power as part of its energy transition?"

Why This Works

1. Expertise Diversity: Each persona brings domain-specific reasoning
2. Contradiction Detection: Devil's Advocate catches when experts disagree
3. Forced Trade-offs: Chairperson must weigh competing concerns
4. Bias Mitigation: No single perspective dominates

Requirements

• Claude Code CLI installed and authenticated (claude command available)
• Python package: rich (for formatted output)