roundtable

What This Skill Does

The Roundtable skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into a high-level moderator presiding over a multi-agent debate council. By spawning three specialized sub-agents—the Scholar (data-driven, source-conscious), the Engineer (pragmatic, structural), and the Muse (creative, lateral thinker)—the skill orchestrates a collaborative synthesis of complex tasks. The workflow moves from initial research (Round 1) to a structured cross-examination phase (Round 2), where agents critique each other's assumptions to mitigate hallucinations and blind spots. The process culminates in a comprehensive synthesis report, delivered by the Captain agent, providing a balanced, consensus-driven final answer.

Installation

To integrate the Roundtable skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal or command interface: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/robbyczgw-cla/roundtable Ensure you have the necessary permissions enabled for the agent to spawn sub-processes and execute API calls, as this skill utilizes multiple model invocations per execution.

Use Cases

This skill is designed for high-stakes, multi-faceted decision-making. Ideal scenarios include:

• Strategic Business Planning: Analyzing market entry risks from technical, academic, and creative angles.
• Software Architecture Design: Balancing system scalability, academic research, and user experience intuition.
• Complex Research Synthesis: Comparing historical data against current technical feasibility and forward-looking concepts.
• Policy Drafting: Examining the intersection of ethics, social impact, and implementation mechanics.

Example Prompts

1. "/roundtable Evaluate the long-term feasibility of a global universal basic income program based on current economic research and technological trends."
2. "/roundtable How can we architect a microservices platform that remains maintainable for small teams while handling high-scale concurrent traffic?"
3. "/council Setup a new session using the diverse model preset and enable cross-examination for all future queries."

Tips & Limitations

• Cost Awareness: Because the roundtable employs multiple agents across two rounds, it consumes significantly more tokens than a standard query. Use the quick mode configuration if budget is a concern.
• Setup Wizard: Use /roundtable setup to define your preferences once. The agent will save these configurations to optimize future interactions.
• Complexity Threshold: This skill is overkill for simple tasks. If the question can be answered with a single search or factual lookup, standard query mode is more efficient. The Roundtable shines only when deep, multifaceted analysis is required to break through intellectual bottlenecks.