Quintet Consult

Fans out a question across ready AI provider CLIs in parallel and synthesizes a single consensus recommendation.

Workflow

1. Check Readiness: Verify provider availability using quintet doctor if pool status is unknown.
2. Execute Consult: Fan out the question across ready providers:

QBIN="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:+$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/bin/quintet}"
[ -n "$QBIN" ] && [ -x "$QBIN" ] || QBIN="$HOME/.gemini/config/plugins/quintet/bin/quintet"
[ -x "$QBIN" ] || QBIN="$HOME/.gemini/extensions/quintet/bin/quintet"
[ -x "$QBIN" ] || QBIN="$(command -v quintet 2>/dev/null || echo quintet)"
"$QBIN" consult "Best approach to dedupe a 10M-row stream in Rust?" claude,codex,agy,opencode

3. Output Validation & Fallback:

   • Validation: Verify responses were collected from ready models.
   • Fallback: If a provider times out or errors, log the failure and synthesize from available responses.
   • Empty Pool Guard: If zero providers respond, prompt user to check CLI auth.

4. Structured Synthesis & Deliverable Format: Format the deliverable strictly using the following structure:

Consensus (3/3): High-confidence agreement across models.
Disagreements: Surface points where models differ and note which model held which view.
Recommendation: One clear recommendation with technical reasoning.

Reference Materials

• Complete CLI subcommands, options, and setup: references/CLI_REFERENCE.md