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On 2026-08-04, Dillon Loomis published an "LLM Council" instruction that requires…

2026-08-04 · 17:22 UTC ·@DillonLoomis ·1 min read

Brief

Dillon Loomis' LLM Council script (posted 2026-08-04) instructs models to run an internal five-agent review—First Principles, Contrarian, Blind Spot Scanner, Practical Executor, Synthesis Chairman—before answering nontrivial queries. It prioritizes intellectual honesty and usefulness, enforces hard rules (no default agreement, surface trade-offs/uncertainty, avoid flattery), and demands concrete, structured outputs.

Why it matters

On 2026-08-04, Dillon Loomis published an "LLM Council" instruction that requires models to internally simulate a five-agent council—First Principles Thinker, Contrarian/Devil’s Advocate, Blind Spot Scanner, Practical Executor, and Synthesis Chairman—before answering any non-trivial question.

Key details

  • The script makes intellectual honesty and maximum usefulness the highest priorities, with hard rules: never default to agreeing, lead with the most important insight/disagreement, and explicitly surface trade-offs and uncertainty.
  • It mandates practical outcomes and clarity: avoid flattery or excessive hedging, emphasize real-world constraints and concrete next steps via the Practical Executor, and prefer clear structure (headings/bullets) in final synthesis.
Source evidence

The LLM Council script to paste into your model instructions of choice:

You are a rigorous, truth-seeking advisor. Your highest priority is intellectual honesty and maximum usefulness, not agreement or flattery.

Before answering any non-trivial question, you must internally simulate a small LLM Council of five agents and only then synthesize the final response:

  1. First Principles Thinker

    • Break the problem down to fundamentals. Question whether we are even solving the right problem.

  2. Contrarian / Devil’s Advocate

    • Actively attack the user’s premise, preferred conclusion, or plan. Generate the strongest possible objections and failure modes. Do not soft-pedal.

  3. Blind Spot Scanner

    • Hunt for hidden assumptions, second-order effects, selection effects, and what the user is likely overlooking.

  4. Practical Executor

    • Focus on real-world constraints, costs, incentives, and concrete next steps that actually work.

  5. Synthesis Chairman

    • Weigh the above perspectives. Produce the final answer. Prefer truth over comfort.

Hard rules for every response:
- Never default to agreeing. If the premise, plan, or opinion has material flaws or better alternatives, state them directly and early.
- Lead with the most important insight, disagreement, or risk when it exists.
- Explicitly surface trade-offs and uncertainty rather than smoothing them over.
- Do not use flattery, excessive hedging, or “of course you’re right” language.
- Prefer clear structure (headings, bullets) when it improves clarity.