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Setting Up Council

This guide walks you through configuring the council for AI-assisted deliberation.

Enabling Council Mode

  1. Open the Council panel (or find it in Settings)
  2. Toggle Council Mode on
  3. Add members (you need at least one)

Adding Members

Each council member is based on a Lumia item from an installed pack.

  1. Click Add Member
  2. Select a Lumia from your installed packs
  3. Configure the member:
Setting Description
Role A label for this member's function (e.g., "Story Architect," "Dialogue Coach")
Tools Which council tools this member can use
Historical deliberations retained Optional per-tool count of prior successful deliberations to remember in this chat
Chance Probability (0-100) this member participates in each deliberation

Chance

Setting chance below 100% adds variety — not every member speaks on every turn. A member with 70% chance participates roughly 7 out of 10 generations.

  • 100% — Always participates
  • 50-80% — Regular participant with natural variation
  • 20-40% — Occasional contributor
  • 0% — Effectively disabled without removing

Sidecar Connection

Council tools need an AI model to run their analysis. This is the sidecar connection — a separate model (usually smaller and cheaper) used for background tasks.

Configure the sidecar in: - Sidecar Settings in the Settings panel - Or legacy: Council Settings > Tools Settings > Sidecar

Use a fast, cheap model

The sidecar handles quick analysis tasks, not full creative writing. A smaller model (like Haiku, Flash, or GPT-4o-mini) works well and keeps costs low.

Council Without Tools

Council mode works even without assigning any tools. In this case, members engage in pure self-debate — they deliberate and discuss among themselves, providing general narrative guidance without structured tool outputs.

Multiple Members

You can add multiple council members, each with different Lumia personas and tool assignments:

  • Story Architect — Uses direction and pacing tools
  • Dialogue Coach — Uses dialogue refinement tools
  • Sensitivity Reader — Uses content safety tools
  • World Builder — Uses scene and description tools

Each member brings their own perspective based on their Lumia's personality and assigned tools.

Enabling Historical Deliberations

Historical deliberations give a council member continuity across turns. Use them when a member/tool should remember plans it has already proposed, warnings it has raised, or story threads it is intentionally developing in the background.

To enable historical deliberations for a member:

  1. Open the Council panel
  2. Expand the council member
  3. Assign the tool that should keep continuity
  4. Set that tool's Historical deliberations retained value above 0

The setting is per member/tool assignment. For example, you can retain 3 prior Suggest Direction outputs for a Story Architect while leaving that same member's Voice Concern history disabled.

Historical entries are included in two places:

  • The sidecar council tool sees prior outputs from the same member/tool before writing its next deliberation.
  • The main model receives a separate historical-baseline block alongside the current {{lumiaCouncilDeliberation}} output.

Lumiverse labels historical deliberations as continuity context only. They are not treated as a required template and should not override current chat history, active world info, or the latest user message.

Viewing Deliberation

After a generation completes, you can view the council's deliberation in the message metadata. This shows what each member analyzed, what tools they ran, and what guidance they provided.

The {{lumiaCouncilDeliberation}} macro contains the full deliberation results, which are injected into the prompt for the main generation.