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title: AI Council launcher (one-click start a council from your default panel)
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# AI Council launcher (one-click start a council from your default panel)

## What it is

**AI Council** in the **Prompt Tools** sidebar group is a one-click **launcher**: click it and
Omniscio opens the AI Council and immediately starts a new council using your **default panel** —
the multi-model "ask once, hear from the whole panel" feature, where a judge model synthesizes a
single best answer. It is the fast path to a council: no template picker, no setup screen. If you
have never set up a council, the first click opens the short guided setup wizard instead, then it
is one click forever after.

It is an **action row**, exactly like **Bake-Off** — clicking it does NOT open a panel or spawn a
raw session; it fires the launch. The row appears only when the **AI Council** feature
(`multi-model-council`) is turned on, and you can add or remove it from the sidebar like any other
row (via the sidebar's item picker).

## Where to find it

### Where councils live in the sidebar (opt-in per hub)

The AI Council has its own home in the **AI Tools** group (the browse-your-councils hub).
Separately, each hub's **session list** can show a **"Councils" section**, but this is **opt-in
per hub** — it does NOT appear in every hub automatically:

- It shows in the **standalone AI Council** hub (always), in any hub you **opt in**, and in any hub
  that **already has councils** (so existing councils are never hidden).
- To add it to a specific hub, **right-click the hub, then "Show AI Council."** Right-click again
  ("Hide AI Council") to remove it.

This keeps the session list clean in hubs where you don't use councils, while the Prompt Tools
launcher stays the fast way to start a council anywhere.

## How it behaves

### How the click behaves

1. **You have a default council** (a template marked default, or any template): it creates a
   council from the best one — your project default, then a global default, then your first
   template — and opens it, ready for your question.
2. **First-ever use** (you have never completed council setup, or you have no usable template): it
   opens the **guided setup wizard** so you can build a panel, then launches.
3. **Nothing is spent by clicking.** The launch only creates and opens a ready council; money is
   spent only when you actually ask the council a question, and your daily council spend cap still
   applies.

## Related

- [multi-model-council.md](multi-model-council.md) — the AI Council feature itself: how the panel,
  rounds, judge model, and daily cost cap work.
- [prompt-tools.md](prompt-tools.md) — the Prompt Tools sidebar group this launcher belongs to
  (alongside Super Prompts, Super Prompt Creator, Bake-Off, and Clean Room).
- [fanout.md](fanout.md) — Bake-Off, the sibling one-click Prompt Tools action row.