Game-Theoretic Council Skill

A publishable Hermes skill for running council-style decision reviews as game-theoretic evaluations.

The skill combines structured council roles with game-theory checks: players, incentives, strategies, payoff dimensions, information asymmetries, counter-moves, dominated options, stability claims, mechanisms, stop conditions, and verification tests.

Use it when

• a product, roadmap, governance, or architecture choice has interacting incentives;
• a delegation or multi-agent workflow could drift or fake success;
• a safety, authority, approval, or verification boundary matters;
• a council review needs more than role-flavored opinions;
• the recommendation should survive adversarial or locally rational behavior.

Do not use it for simple factual lookup or routine execution when the next step is obvious and reversible.

Install in Hermes

From a public raw URL:

hermes skills install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MaverickKB/game-theoretic-council-skill/main/SKILL.md --name game-theoretic-council

Hermes' CLI installer currently expects a registry identifier or a direct HTTP(S) SKILL.md URL. For local development, edit this checkout and install from the raw URL after pushing, or copy SKILL.md into your profile's skills directory under a folder named game-theoretic-council.

Load it directly in a Hermes session after installation:

/skill game-theoretic-council

What it produces

A review shaped like:

# Game-Theoretic Council Review: <decision>

## 1. Decision
## 2. Players and incentives
## 3. Candidate strategies
## 4. Payoff matrix
## 5. Game type
## 6. Council findings
## 7. Dominated strategies
## 8. Equilibrium / stability claim
## 9. Recommendation
## 10. Mechanisms to implement
## 11. Verification tests

Files

• SKILL.md — the Hermes skill.
• examples/compact-template.md — short review template.
• examples/full-template.md — full review template.
• scripts/validate.py — local sanity checks for publication hygiene.

Validation

python3 scripts/validate.py

The validation script checks required skill metadata and scans public files for common private/local reference leaks.

License

MIT.