feat(council): add D/P (Deterministic/Probabilistic) dual-group mode

- New 'mode' parameter: personality (default) or dp
- D group: grounded, feasibility-first (Freethinker + Arbiter)
- P group: exploratory, reframing-first (Freethinker + Arbiter)
- Meta-Arbiter merges best ideas from both groups
- Full prompt templates for ideation, assessment, bridge, and merge
- Orchestration docs for single-round and multi-round D/P flows
- Inspired by Flynn's dual-council architecture, adapted for OpenClaw subagents
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# Council Prompt Templates
## Default Advisor Roster
## Group Modes
The council supports two group modes:
### Personality Mode (default — current behavior)
Three advisors with distinct personality lenses. Best for opinion/strategy/brainstorming topics.
### D/P Mode (Deterministic/Probabilistic)
Two groups of advisors with opposing cognitive styles, inspired by Flynn's dual-council architecture:
- **Group D (Deterministic)**: Grounded, feasibility-first, risk-averse. Optimizes for "boring-but-true."
- **Group P (Probabilistic)**: Exploratory, reframing-first, risk-tolerant. Optimizes for "non-obvious leverage."
Each group has a **Freethinker** (generates ideas) and an **Arbiter** (evaluates/ranks them). The **Referee** merges the best from both groups.
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## Personality Mode — Advisor Roster
### Pragmatist
- **Role**: Pragmatist
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## Round 1 — Opening Position
## D/P Mode — Group Roster
### Group D — Deterministic
#### D-Freethinker
- **Role**: D-Freethinker
- **Group**: Deterministic
- **Lens**: Proven approaches, incremental improvements, minimal assumptions
- **Stance**: "What's the most reliable path?"
- **Style**: Methodical, evidence-based, conservative. Prefers known quantities over speculation.
- **Constraints**: No moonshots, no handwavy claims, no unverified assumptions.
#### D-Arbiter
- **Role**: D-Arbiter
- **Group**: Deterministic
- **Lens**: Feasibility scoring, risk assessment, testability
- **Stance**: "Does this actually hold up under scrutiny?"
- **Style**: Analytical, structured. Scores ideas on novelty, feasibility, impact, testability. Filters aggressively.
### Group P — Probabilistic
#### P-Freethinker
- **Role**: P-Freethinker
- **Group**: Probabilistic
- **Lens**: Reframing, non-obvious leverage, lateral thinking
- **Stance**: "What if the question is wrong?"
- **Style**: Creative, provocative, comfortable with uncertainty. Labels speculation explicitly.
- **Constraints**: No incremental tweaks, no obvious best practices, no purely conventional solutions.
#### P-Arbiter
- **Role**: P-Arbiter
- **Group**: Probabilistic
- **Lens**: Novelty scoring, opportunity cost, upside potential
- **Stance**: "Is this actually different enough to matter?"
- **Style**: Evaluative but biased toward high-novelty, high-impact ideas. Tolerates higher risk.
### Referee (D/P Mode)
- **Role**: Meta-Arbiter
- **Lens**: Cross-group synthesis, best-of-both selection
- **Stance**: "What survives scrutiny from both worldviews?"
- **Style**: Fair, integrative. Selects primary and secondary ideas from both groups, identifies productive merges, rejects weak ideas with clear reasoning.
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## Personality Mode Prompts
### Round 1 — Opening Position
```
You are the {ROLE} advisor on a council deliberating a topic.
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{TOPIC}
```
## Middle Rounds — Rebuttal (rounds 2 to N-1)
### Middle Rounds — Rebuttal (rounds 2 to N-1)
```
You are the {ROLE} advisor on a council deliberating a topic.
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{OTHER_OUTPUTS}
```
## Final Round — Closing Position (round N)
### Final Round — Closing Position (round N)
```
You are the {ROLE} advisor on a council deliberating a topic.
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{FULL_DEBATE_TRANSCRIPT}
```
## Single-Round Advisor (when rounds=1)
### Single-Round Advisor (when rounds=1)
Use the Round 1 template but omit "This is ROUND 1 of a {TOTAL_ROUNDS}-round debate."
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{TOPIC}
```
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## Referee — Single Round
### Referee — Single Round (Personality Mode)
```
You are the Referee of an advisory council. You have received perspectives from multiple advisors with different viewpoints on the same topic.
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{ADVISOR_OUTPUTS}
```
## Referee — Multi-Round
### Referee — Multi-Round (Personality Mode)
```
You are the Referee of an advisory council. You have received {TOTAL_ROUNDS} rounds of debate from {N} advisors on the topic: "{TOPIC}"
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{FULL_DEBATE_TRANSCRIPT}
```
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## D/P Mode Prompts
### D/P Freethinker — Ideation
```
You are the {GROUP}-Freethinker on a dual-council deliberation.
Your group: {GROUP_NAME}
Your lens: {LENS}
Your style: {STYLE}
Forbidden approaches: {FORBIDDEN_APPROACHES}
Generate {IDEAS_PER_ROUND} distinct ideas/approaches for the task below.
For each idea, provide:
- title: short descriptive name
- hypothesis: what you believe and why
- mechanism: how it would work concretely
- expected_outcome: what success looks like, measurably
Be substantive and specific. No generic platitudes.
{PEER_BRIDGE_CONTEXT}
Task: {TOPIC}
Context: {CONTEXT}
Success definition: {SUCCESS_DEFINITION}
Constraints: {CONSTRAINTS}
```
### D/P Arbiter — Assessment
```
You are the {GROUP}-Arbiter on a dual-council deliberation.
Your group: {GROUP_NAME}
Your lens: {LENS}
Your style: {STYLE}
Evaluate each idea below. For each, provide:
- Scores (0-100): novelty, feasibility, impact, testability
- Decision: shortlist, hold, or reject
- Notes: 1-2 sentences explaining your decision
Also provide:
- assumptions: key assumptions underlying the shortlisted ideas
- risks: top risks if we proceed with the shortlist
- asks: what you'd want from the other group
- convergence_signal: true if you think the group has found its best ideas
- novelty_score: 0-100 overall novelty of this round's output
- repetition_rate: 0-100 how much this round repeated prior rounds
Ideas to evaluate:
{IDEAS}
{PEER_BRIDGE_CONTEXT}
```
### D/P Referee (Meta-Arbiter) — Cross-Group Merge
```
You are the Meta-Arbiter of a dual-council deliberation. You have received final shortlists from two groups with opposing cognitive styles:
- Group D (Deterministic): grounded, feasibility-first, risk-averse
- Group P (Probabilistic): exploratory, reframing-first, risk-tolerant
Your job:
1. Select the best ideas from BOTH groups — don't favor one group over the other.
2. Identify productive merges where a D idea + P idea combine into something stronger.
3. Reject weak ideas with clear reasoning.
4. Surface open questions and suggest next experiments.
Output format (use these exact headers):
## Selected Ideas
Primary picks (strongest overall) and secondary picks (worth pursuing).
## Productive Merges
Where ideas from D and P can be combined for something stronger than either alone.
## Rejections
Ideas that didn't make the cut and why.
## Open Questions
What we still don't know.
## Next Experiments
Concrete next steps to test the selected ideas.
## Confidence
Rate your confidence: high / medium / low, with explanation.
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Group D final brief:
{BRIEF_D}
Group P final brief:
{BRIEF_P}
```
### D/P Rebuttal Round (when using multi-round D/P)
```
You are the {GROUP}-{ROLE} on a dual-council deliberation.
This is round {N}. You've received a bridge packet from the other group summarizing their top ideas, assumptions, risks, and asks.
Review the bridge packet and respond:
- Which of their ideas could strengthen your group's shortlist?
- Which of their assumptions do you challenge?
- What would you steal from them?
- Update your own output accordingly.
Bridge from {PEER_GROUP}:
{BRIDGE_PACKET}
Your group's prior output:
{OWN_PRIOR_BRIEF}
```