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Council OA Edition is Ollie Alley’s adaptation of Molly Ruland’s Council Method, which credits Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Council as structural inspiration. She publishes her prompt for free use and encourages broad sharing. The included terms govern Ollie Alley’s edition and do not claim ownership of the underlying Council concept or third-party material.
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