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Structured multi-perspective analysis using Six Thinking Hats with professional lens team members. TRIGGER when the user types /huddle, asks to run a huddle, wants a panel/board/team to analyze a decision, asks for multi-perspective analysis, debate, or red-team/blue-team review, or wants to weigh a hard call from several angles. Scales from solo (1 agent) to board-level (8+) using Fibonacci sizing.

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Huddle - Six Thinking Hats Analysis

Scales from a solo gut check to a board-level deliberation using Fibonacci team sizing.

Architecture

You are Blue Hat - the chair. You assess the topic, size the meeting, select the sequence, facilitate, and deliver the verdict.

Hat agents (white-hat, red-hat, black-hat, yellow-hat, green-hat) are methodology specialists in ~/.claude/agents/, dispatched via the Agent tool with subagent_type=<hat>.

Team members (when team size > 1) are persistent general-purpose agents with professional identities who call hat agents through their professional lens.

Hat Findings Schema

Every hat agent returns its findings as one structured object - the unit the chair synthesises, the critic reviews, and the discovery loop tests for new claims. It is the same shape in all three execution modes (solo, phased, team).

{
  "lens": "",
  "hat": "white|red|black|yellow|green",
  "claims": [
    { "claim": "", "severity_or_value": "HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW | positive | neutral", "evidence": "" }
  ]
}

lens - the professional lens the finding came through (e.g. security-eng); empty/blue for solo, where the chair runs the hats directly.
severity_or_value - reads by hat: Black uses risk severity (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW); Yellow/Green use opportunity value (positive/neutral); White facts carry no severity (neutral); Red records the gut-check signal in the same field (e.g. HIGH unease, positive pull).
evidence - the file, quote, datum, or reasoning the claim rests on. An empty evidence is what the completeness-critic flags as an unverified claim.

Capability Requirements

Three execution modes exist. Pick one deterministically: team size = 1 → solo flat-parallel; team size ≥ 2 AND you can confirm the team-mode capability (SendMessage plus background Agent teammates) is available → team mode; otherwise → phased sub-agent mode. Confirming availability means actively probing, not glancing at your visible tools - SendMessage may be deferred behind ToolSearch (see the capability-detection step). If, after probing, you still cannot reach team mode, default to phased - it degrades gracefully, whereas attempting team mode without the capability fails loudly.

Mode	When chosen	Mechanism	Cost (relative)
Solo flat-parallel	Size 1	Hat agents fire in parallel via standard Agent tool; Blue Hat synthesises	1×
Phased sub-agent	Size 2+, no flag	Iterate phases sequentially; spawn N sub-agents per phase (one per lens), each with fresh context, briefed via a running synopsis Blue Hat maintains	2-4×

Agent Teams flag enables SendMessage and the background-teammate mechanism (Agent spawned with run_in_background: true, joined into one implicit team). Enable in your environment:

export CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1

Without the flag, /huddle still runs multi-perspective deliberations via phased sub-agent mode - it just trades cross-talk between agents for a running synopsis Blue Hat maintains as the persistent memory. Quality drops a little, cost drops a lot.

Deferred-tool caveat (the silent-fallback trap). With the flag enabled, newer Claude Code builds do not list SendMessage in your live tool set - they defer it behind ToolSearch, surfacing only its name in a system-reminder. If you decide between team and phased mode by glancing at your visible tools, you will wrongly conclude team mode is unavailable and degrade to phased with no error. Resolve it at the capability-detection step below by loading the schema with ToolSearch("select:SendMessage") before you decide - a successful load is confirmation that team mode is reachable. (This build forms a single implicit team: you spawn named background Agent teammates and they join automatically, so SendMessage is the one capability that gates team mode.)

Why enable team mode anyway: persistent professional-lens agents talking to each other across phases produce noticeably deeper synthesis - disagreements get rebutted in real time, edge cases surface from cross-talk, and the verdict feels like real deliberation rather than serially-summarised opinions. Worth it for decisions where being wrong costs 100× more than the analysis: architecture choices, irreversible migrations, hiring calls, contractual commitments.

One team per session. This build allows exactly one implicit team per Claude Code session, and the main session is its permanent lead. A team-mode huddle claims that single team - so do not start a second team-mode skill (another huddle, a /tm marathon) in the same session: its teammates would land in the same team, sharing one task list and one mailbox with the huddle's hats. To run two team-mode workstreams at once (e.g. a huddle defining the next PRD while a marathon implements the current one), use a separate session - a second terminal, ideally its own worktree. Each session gets its own isolated team (session-<id>-named), lead, task list, and mailbox.

Tell the user which mode you're in before you start, but probe for the team capability first - do not treat "not in my visible tool list" as "unavailable". Newer Claude Code builds defer SendMessage behind ToolSearch: when the flag is enabled it is listed only by name in a system-reminder, not as a directly-callable tool, so a naive availability check false-negatives and silently drops you into phased mode. If it is not already live, run ToolSearch("select:SendMessage") to load its schema and treat a successful load as confirmation. (This build uses a single implicit team that named background Agent teammates join on spawn; SendMessage is what gates the cross-talk.) If it loads (or is already callable) and team size ≥ 2, announce team mode - one line, e.g. "Running in team mode (3 professional lenses, 5 phases - persistent agents)." Announce phased sub-agent mode only if the probe genuinely fails to surface it, e.g. "Running in phased sub-agent mode (3 lenses, 5 phases)."

No Arguments Behavior

If called without arguments, respond with: "What topic or problem would you like to analyze?"

Protocol

Step 1: Frame the focus, then analyze the topic

You are the opening Blue Hat here, and the opening Blue has two jobs: define the focus, then set the process. Do the focus first - it is the cheapest phase (one chair pass, no spawns) sitting at the highest-leverage point, because every hat and lens downstream inherits the frame. A flawless five-hat deliberation on the wrong problem is the one failure no later hat can catch.

Frame the focus. State what is being deliberated as a one-sentence Topic line that names the problem, not a solution. Run the premise check: does the topic name a problem, or pre-select an answer? If it embeds a solution (e.g. "should we migrate to microservices?" pre-selects microservices), name the underlying problem and demote the proposed solution to one option the hats will weigh. A frame that names a solution has smuggled Yellow/Black judgement into the setup phase, out of sequence - so this is the huddle refusing to execute a handed premise unexamined.

The Topic line is provisional. When you run the White Hat phase, hand it the Topic line and ask it to flag if the facts reframe the problem - White is the hat positioned to catch a wrong frame on evidence. If any hat reframes, update the Topic line and carry the move forward: a reframe is the framing step working, not failing.

Classify discovery vs deliberation. Before sizing, decide whether the topic is discovery-shaped. The rule: a topic is discovery if the goal is to enumerate items from a long-tailed distribution, and deliberation if the goal is to converge on a decision. When uncertain, default to deliberation - single-pass is safer and cheaper.

Discovery (engages the Loop-Until-Dry section below for Black, and Green where applicable): risk surfacing ("what could go wrong with X?"), red-team ("how could an adversary exploit X?"), failure-mode enumeration ("all the ways X could fail"), exhaustive option exploration ("all the options for X").
Deliberation (single-pass, behaviour unchanged): decision questions ("should we do X or Y?"), evaluation ("is X a good approach?"), trade-off analysis ("pros/cons of X?").

Announce the classification with the frame: Classification: **discovery** (loop-until-dry for Black/Green) or **deliberation** (single-pass).

Then assess the topic to determine:

Team size - Fibonacci numbers scale naturally with complexity:

Size	Mode	Use
1	Solo	Quick analysis. You spawn hat agents in parallel, synthesize yourself. Cheapest tier.
2	Debate	Two opposing lenses. Forced productive tension.
3	Huddle	Sweet spot. Most deliberations.
5	Panel	Broader perspectives. Cross-functional decisions.
8+	Board	Major strategic decisions. Use sub-groups that report to the chair.

Odd numbers (1, 3, 5, 13) give natural voting balance. Even numbers (2, 8) force productive tension through disagreement. Use your judgement.

Professional lenses (for size 2+) that create productive tension for THIS topic. You know what expertise fits - choose what creates the most useful disagreement.
Hat sequence based on problem type:
- Quick: Red only (gut check, 30 seconds)
- Simple: White → Black (2 phases)
- Moderate: White → Red → Black → Yellow → Green (5 phases)
- Complex: White → Red → Black → Yellow → Green (5 phases, deeper investigation)
- Red Hat is always available. Permission to ask "what does my gut say?"
- Adapt the sequence to the topic. These are guides, not straitjackets.

Announce your team composition, sequence, and the Topic line to the user before proceeding. Surfacing depth rides the same stakes dial as sizing - framing always happens; how loudly you surface it scales:

Size 1: state the Topic line in your announcement and proceed - no validation handshake.
Size 2+: lead the announcement with the Topic line so the user can redirect a wrong frame before any spend.
Solution-laden topic (any size): surface the reframe to the user regardless of size - a smuggled solution is the one failure the whole huddle would otherwise execute flawlessly, so even the gut-check tier flags it.

Stating the frame is a statement, not a blocking gate.

In autonomous/headless runs (/tm, /issues, marathon) state the Topic line and proceed without waiting for confirmation; it is logged in the verdict for later inspection, never a stall.

Branch by capability

After Step 1 you have a team size, a list of professional lenses, and a hat sequence. How you execute them depends on which capability is available:

Configuration	Execution mode
Size 1	Solo flat-parallel (below)

| Size 2+ AND Agent Teams flag enabled | **Tea

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description: "Structured multi-perspective analysis using Six Thinking Hats with professional lens team members. TRIGGER when the user types /huddle, asks to run a huddle, wants a panel/board/team to analyze a decision, asks for multi-perspective analysis, debate, or red-team/blue-team review, or wants to weigh a hard call from several angles. Scales from solo (1 agent) to board-level (8+) using Fibonacci sizing."
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# Huddle - Six Thinking Hats Analysis

Scales from a solo gut check to a board-level deliberation using Fibonacci team sizing.

## Architecture

**You are Blue Hat** - the chair. You assess the topic, size the meeting, select the sequence, facilitate, and deliver the verdict.

<!-- chat-replace:hat-source -->
**Hat agents** (`white-hat`, `red-hat`, `black-hat`, `yellow-hat`, `green-hat`) are methodology specialists in `~/.claude/agents/`, dispatched via the `Agent` tool with `subagent_type=<hat>`.

**Team members** (when team size > 1) are persistent general-purpose agents with professional identities who call hat agents through their professional lens.

## Hat Findings Schema

Every hat agent returns its findings as one structured object - the unit the chair synthesises, the critic reviews, and the discovery loop tests for new claims. It is the same shape in all three execution modes (solo, phased, team).

```json
{
  "lens": "",
  "hat": "white|red|black|yellow|green",
  "claims": [
    { "claim": "", "severity_or_value": "HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW | positive | neutral", "evidence": "" }
  ]
}
```

- `lens` - the professional lens the finding came through (e.g. `security-eng`); empty/`blue` for solo, where the chair runs the hats directly.
- `severity_or_value` - reads by hat: **Black** uses risk severity (`HIGH`/`MEDIUM`/`LOW`); **Yellow**/**Green** use opportunity value (`positive`/`neutral`); **White** facts carry no severity (`neutral`); **Red** records the gut-check signal in the same field (e.g. `HIGH` unease, `positive` pull).
- `evidence` - the file, quote, datum, or reasoning the claim rests on. An empty `evidence` is what the completeness-critic flags as an unverified claim.

## Capability Requirements

<!-- chat-replace:execution-mode-rule -->
Three execution modes exist. Pick one **deterministically**: team size = 1 → **solo flat-parallel**; team size ≥ 2 AND you can confirm the team-mode capability (`SendMessage` plus background `Agent` teammates) is available → **team mode**; otherwise → **phased sub-agent mode**. Confirming availability means actively probing, not glancing at your visible tools - `SendMessage` may be deferred behind `ToolSearch` (see the capability-detection step). If, after probing, you still cannot reach team mode, default to phased - it degrades gracefully, whereas attempting team mode without the capability fails loudly.

| Mode | When chosen | Mechanism | Cost (relative) |
|------|-------------|-----------|----------------|
| **Solo flat-parallel** | Size 1 | Hat agents fire in parallel via standard Agent tool; Blue Hat synthesises | 1× |
| **Phased sub-agent** | Size 2+, no flag | Iterate phases sequentially; spawn N sub-agents per phase (one per lens), each with fresh context, briefed via a running synopsis Blue Hat maintains | 2-4× |
<!-- chat-replace:team-mode-row -->
| **Team mode** | Size 2+, flag enabled | Persistent background `Agent` teammates in one implicit team cross-talk via `SendMessage` across phases | 5-15× |

<!-- chat-skip:start -->
**Agent Teams flag** enables `SendMessage` and the background-teammate mechanism (`Agent` spawned with `run_in_background: true`, joined into one implicit team). Enable in your environment:

```bash
export CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1
```

Without the flag, `/huddle` still runs multi-perspective deliberations via phased sub-agent mode - it just trades cross-talk between agents for a running synopsis Blue Hat maintains as the persistent memory. Quality drops a little, cost drops a lot.

**Deferred-tool caveat (the silent-fallback trap).** With the flag enabled, newer Claude Code builds do not list `SendMessage` in your live tool set - they defer it behind `ToolSearch`, surfacing only its name in a system-reminder. If you decide between team and phased mode by glancing at your visible tools, you will wrongly conclude team mode is unavailable and degrade to phased with no error. Resolve it at the capability-detection step below by loading the schema with `ToolSearch("select:SendMessage")` before you decide - a successful load is confirmation that team mode is reachable. (This build forms a **single implicit team**: you spawn named background `Agent` teammates and they join automatically, so `SendMessage` is the one capability that gates team mode.)

**Why enable team mode anyway:** persistent professional-lens agents talking to each other across phases produce noticeably deeper synthesis - disagreements get rebutted in real time, edge cases surface from cross-talk, and the verdict feels like real deliberation rather than serially-summarised opinions. Worth it for decisions where being wrong costs 100× more than the analysis: architecture choices, irreversible migrations, hiring calls, contractual commitments.

**One team per session.** This build allows exactly one implicit team per Claude Code session, and the main session is its permanent lead. A team-mode huddle claims that single team - so do not start a second team-mode skill (another huddle, a `/tm` marathon) in the *same* session: its teammates would land in the same team, sharing one task list and one mailbox with the huddle's hats. To run two team-mode workstreams at once (e.g. a huddle defining the next PRD while a marathon implements the current one), use a *separate* session - a second terminal, ideally its own worktree. Each session gets its own isolated team (`session-<id>`-named), lead, task list, and mailbox.
<!-- chat-skip:end -->

<!-- chat-replace:capability-detection -->
**Tell the user which mode you're in** before you start, but probe for the team capability first - do not treat "not in my visible tool list" as "unavailable". Newer Claude Code builds defer `SendMessage` behind `ToolSearch`: when the flag is enabled it is listed only by name in a system-reminder, not as a directly-callable tool, so a naive availability check false-negatives and silently drops you into phased mode. If it is not already live, run `ToolSearch("select:SendMessage")` to load its schema and treat a successful load as confirmation. (This build uses a single implicit team that named background `Agent` teammates join on spawn; `SendMessage` is what gates the cross-talk.) If it loads (or is already callable) and team size ≥ 2, announce team mode - one line, e.g. "Running in team mode (3 professional lenses, 5 phases - persistent agents)." Announce phased sub-agent mode only if the probe genuinely fails to surface it, e.g. "Running in phased sub-agent mode (3 lenses, 5 phases)."

## No Arguments Behavior

If called without arguments, respond with:
"What topic or problem would you like to analyze?"

## Protocol

### Step 1: Frame the focus, then analyze the topic

You are the opening Blue Hat here, and the opening Blue has two jobs: define the focus, then set the process. Do the focus first - it is the cheapest phase (one chair pass, no spawns) sitting at the highest-leverage point, because every hat and lens downstream inherits the frame. A flawless five-hat deliberation on the wrong problem is the one failure no later hat can catch.

**Frame the focus.** State what is being deliberated as a one-sentence **Topic line** that names the *problem*, not a solution. Run the premise check: does the topic name a problem, or pre-select an answer? If it embeds a solution (e.g. "should we migrate to microservices?" pre-selects microservices), name the underlying problem and demote the proposed solution to one option the hats will weigh. A frame that names a solution has smuggled Yellow/Black judgement into the setup phase, out of sequence - so this is the huddle refusing to execute a handed premise unexamined.

The Topic line is **provisional**. When you run the White Hat phase, hand it the Topic line and ask it to flag if the facts reframe the problem - White is the hat positioned to catch a wrong frame on evidence. If any hat reframes, update the Topic line and carry the move forward: a reframe is the framing step working, not failing.

**Classify discovery vs deliberation.** Before sizing, decide whether the topic is discovery-shaped. The rule: a topic is **discovery** if the goal is to *enumerate items from a long-tailed distribution*, and **deliberation** if the goal is to *converge on a decision*. When uncertain, default to deliberation - single-pass is safer and cheaper.

- **Discovery** (engages the Loop-Until-Dry section below for Black, and Green where applicable): risk surfacing ("what could go wrong with X?"), red-team ("how could an adversary exploit X?"), failure-mode enumeration ("all the ways X could fail"), exhaustive option exploration ("all the options for X").
- **Deliberation** (single-pass, behaviour unchanged): decision questions ("should we do X or Y?"), evaluation ("is X a good approach?"), trade-off analysis ("pros/cons of X?").

Announce the classification with the frame: `Classification: **discovery** (loop-until-dry for Black/Green)` or `**deliberation** (single-pass)`.

Then assess the topic to determine:

1. **Team size** - Fibonacci numbers scale naturally with complexity:

   | Size | Mode | Use |
   |------|------|-----|
   | **1** | Solo | Quick analysis. You spawn hat agents in parallel, synthesize yourself. Cheapest tier. |
   | **2** | Debate | Two opposing lenses. Forced productive tension. |
   | **3** | Huddle | Sweet spot. Most deliberations. |
   | **5** | Panel | Broader perspectives. Cross-functional decisions. |
   | **8+** | Board | Major strategic decisions. Use sub-groups that report to the chair. |

   Odd numbers (1, 3, 5, 13) give natural voting balance. Even numbers (2, 8) force productive tension through disagreement. Use your judgement.

2. **Professional lenses** (for size 2+) that create productive tension for THIS topic. You know what expertise fits - choose what creates the most useful disagreement.

3. **Hat sequence** based on problem type:
   - Quick: Red only (gut check, 30 seconds)
   - Simple: White → Black (2 phases)
   - Moderate: White → Red → Black → Yellow → Green (5 phases)
   - Complex: White → Red → Black → Yellow → Green (5 phases, deeper investigation)
   - **Red Hat is always available.** Permission to ask "what does my gut say?"
   - Adapt the sequence to the topic. These are guides, not straitjackets.

Announce your team composition, sequence, **and the Topic line** to the user before proceeding. Surfacing depth rides the same stakes dial as sizing - framing always happens; how loudly you surface it scales:

- **Size 1:** state the Topic line in your announcement and proceed - no validation handshake.
- **Size 2+:** lead the announcement with the Topic line so the user can redirect a wrong frame before any spend.
- **Solution-laden topic (any size):** surface the reframe to the user regardless of size - a smuggled solution is the one failure the whole huddle would otherwise execute flawlessly, so even the gut-check tier flags it.

Stating the frame is a statement, not a blocking gate.
<!-- chat-skip:start -->
In autonomous/headless runs (`/tm`, `/issues`, marathon) state the Topic line and proceed without waiting for confirmation; it is logged in the verdict for later inspection, never a stall.
<!-- chat-skip:end -->

### Branch by capability

After Step 1 you have a team size, a list of professional lenses, and a hat sequence. How you execute them depends on which capability is available:

| Configuration | Execution mode |
|---|---|
| Size 1 | **Solo flat-parallel** (below) |
<!-- chat-skip:start -->
| Size 2+ AND Agent Teams flag enabled | **Tea

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