consult

Consult

Get outside opinions from other AI models on a specific question.

When to use

• The user asks you to evaluate a passage, change, or decision and you think a second opinion adds value
• The user explicitly asks for other perspectives
• You're uncertain about a craft judgment and want to check your instinct
• The user asks "what do you think about X" and the question is concrete enough to send to another model

How to use

Call the consult MCP tool with:

• question: The specific question to ask. Be precise — "Does Kael's motivation in paragraph 3 feel earned?" not "What do you think of this chapter?"
• context: The relevant passage, diff, or background. Keep it focused — send the relevant paragraphs, not the whole chapter.

The tool sends the question to all enabled non-Claude models (Codex, Gemini) and returns their responses.

After receiving responses

Present the outside opinions naturally in conversation. Don't dump them verbatim — synthesize:

• Where the other models agree with your assessment, note the consensus briefly
• Where they disagree, present the disagreement and the reasoning
• Where they caught something you missed, acknowledge it
• Give your own final take, informed by the outside opinions

Important

• This is for specific questions, not full reviews. For full reviews use /critic:review or /critic:manuscript.
• Include everything relevant as context — excerpts, full chapters, world-building notes — whatever the other models need to give an informed answer. But don't overshare irrelevant material. Use judgment.
• The user doesn't need to ask for this explicitly. If you judge that a second opinion would be valuable, use it proactively.