War Room

Orchestrate multi-expert deliberation for complex strategic decisions with reversibility assessment and adversarial review.

When To Use

Use this command when you need to:

• Make critical, high-stakes decisions
• Evaluate irreversible or costly changes
• Compare architectural approaches with trade-offs
• Resolve conflicting expert opinions
• Pressure-test assumptions before commitment
• Build consensus on strategic direction
• Assess decision reversibility

When NOT To Use

Avoid this command if:

• Decision is trivial or easily reversible
• Single obvious path exists
• Already decided and need implementation
• Routine operational choices
• Quick tactical adjustments

Usage

# Basic invocation with problem statement
/attune:war-room "What architecture should we use for the payment system?"

# With context files
/attune:war-room "Best API versioning strategy" --files src/api/**/*.py

# Reversibility assessment only (no deliberation)
/attune:war-room "Database migration to MongoDB" --assess-only

# Force express mode (Type 2 decisions)
/attune:war-room "Which logging library?" --express

# Use startup threshold profile (more aggressive)
/attune:war-room "New feature architecture" --thresholds startup

# Use regulated profile (more conservative)
/attune:war-room "Data retention policy" --thresholds regulated
…

What This Command Does

1. Assesses reversibility (Phase 0) to determine appropriate deliberation intensity
2. Routes to correct mode based on Reversibility Score (RS):

• RS ≤ 0.40: Express (1 expert, < 2 min)
• RS 0.41-0.60: Lightweight (3 experts, 5-10 min)
• RS 0.61-0.80: Full Council (7 experts, 15-30 min)
• RS > 0.80: Full Council + Delphi (iterative, 30-60 min)

1. Gathers intelligence via Scout and Intelligence Officer
2. Develops courses of action from multiple perspectives
3. Pressure tests via Red Team adversarial review
4. Synthesizes decision via Supreme Commander
5. Persists session to Strategeion (Memory Palace)

Reversibility Score (RS)

The War Room automatically assesses decision reversibility using five dimensions (1-5 each):

RS = Sum / 25 → Routes to appropriate deliberation mode.

Arguments

Threshold Profiles

Or customize at session start when prompted.

Expert Panel

Lightweight Mode (Default)

Full Council (--full-council)

Workflow

# 1. Invoke war-room skill
Skill(attune:war-room)

# 2. Execute deliberation phases:
#    - Phase 0: Reversibility Assessment (immediate)
#      ↳ RS ≤ 0.40? → EXPRESS MODE (skip to Phase 7)
#    - Phase 1: Intelligence Gathering (parallel)
#    - Phase 2: Situation Assessment
#    - Phase 3: COA Development (parallel, anonymized)
#    - Escalation Check (Commander validates RS or overrides)
#    - Phase 4: Red Team Review
#    - Phase 5: Voting + Narrowing
#    - Phase 6: Premortem Analysis
#    - Phase 7: Supreme Commander Synthesis

# 3. Persist to Strategeion
#    ~/.claude/memory-palace/strategeion/war-table/{session-id}/
…

Output

Decision Document

## SUPREME COMMANDER DECISION: war-room-20260120-153022

### Reversibility Assessment
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|-----------|-------|-----------|
| Reversal Cost | 4/5 | Service decomposition hard to reverse |
| Time Lock-In | 3/5 | Architecture hardens over months |
| Blast Radius | 4/5 | Affects all teams |
| Information Loss | 3/5 | Some patterns locked |
| Reputation Impact | 2/5 | Internal decision |

**RS: 0.64 | Type: 1A | Mode: full_council**

### Decision
**Selected Approach**: Microservices with Event Sourcing

### Rationale
[2-3 paragraphs explaining why]
…

Session Artifacts

Saved to Strategeion:

~/.claude/memory-palace/strategeion/war-table/{session-id}/
  session.json           # Full session state
  intelligence/          # Scout and Intel Officer reports
  battle-plans/          # All COAs
  wargames/              # Red Team challenges + Premortem
  orders/                # Final decision

Integration

From Brainstorm

When brainstorm produces multiple strong approaches:

# Brainstorm first
/attune:brainstorm "New payment system"

# Then escalate to War Room
/attune:war-room --from-brainstorm

With Memory Palace

# Review past War Room sessions
/memory-palace:strategeion list

# Archive completed campaign
/memory-palace:strategeion archive {session-id} --project payments

# Extract patterns to doctrine
/memory-palace:strategeion doctrine --extract {session-id}

Escalation

Automatic (RS-Based)

Mode is automatically selected based on Reversibility Score:

• RS ≤ 0.40 → Express mode (or skip War Room entirely)
• RS 0.41-0.60 → Lightweight panel
• RS 0.61-0.80 → Full Council
• RS > 0.80 → Full Council + Delphi