Decision system

Council in Disp8ch: turn important choices into recorded debate

Council sessions let agents debate options, vote, and record a verdict with dissent preserved. It is built for decisions where the reasoning matters as much as the final answer.

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Disp8ch Council showing a structured multi-agent deliberation and verdict area
What it does

Turns the feature into usable workspace objects.

Disp8ch treats Council as part of the operating loop. The result is visible, editable, and connected to the other surfaces.

  • Runs structured debate across selected participants, options, rounds, decision methods, and source documents.
  • Records arguments, votes, errors, degraded results, and a final verdict.
  • Creates board tasks or follow-up chat prompts from the verdict so the decision becomes action.
How it works

Context flows through the app instead of being trapped in chat.

The feature reads from the same workspace objects used by the rest of Disp8ch, then writes back through confirmation-gated actions when work changes state.

  • You define the decision, options, participants, context, and rounds.
  • Participants argue and vote under the selected decision method, while failed model calls are excluded from tallies.
  • The chamber preserves minority concerns instead of flattening every decision into a single confident paragraph.
What makes it different

Built for operators who need auditability.

The feature is designed around explicit state, reviewable outputs, and practical handoffs to the next place work should go.

  • Council is for contested decisions, not everyday Q&A.
  • The losing side stays on the record, which helps later reviews and risk tracking.
  • Org and source context can scope the discussion to a real goal instead of generic advice.
Works with

Council is strongest when it connects to the rest of the workspace.

A typical job starts with a user request, pulls in sources or app state, creates a plan, asks for confirmation when something changes, and leaves a trace in the right surface.

HierarchyData SourcesBoardsWebChatAgents
Prompt to tryCouncil
Start a Council session on whether reliability or new features should take priority this week.
Related features

Keep moving through the operating loop.

All features
Disp8ch Hierarchy showing an agent organization map with goals and workload
Org dashboard

Hierarchy

Hierarchy gives agent work company-style structure: organizations, roles, goals, reporting lines, source packs, budgets, approvals, heartbeats, and workload.

Disp8ch Data Sources library with uploaded sources and notebook actions
Source grounding

Data Sources

Data Sources imports files, local markdown folders, scraped pages, crawled docs sites, and notebooks so agents can answer with receipts and turn findings into work.

Disp8ch Boards showing tasks, status lanes, and agent work items
Work tracking

Boards

Boards turn ideas, blockers, council verdicts, source findings, and workflow output into tracked work with owners, status, history, and recovery actions.

Install

Try Council on your own machine.

Start local, connect only the providers and channels you want, and keep risky actions approval-gated.

Linux, macOS, or WSL
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaronnat23/disp8ch/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --repo https://github.com/aaronnat23/disp8ch.git