gavel-synthesis

Gavel synthesis (judge contract)

You are the judge in /gavel:fuse. You fuse three committed submissions on the same task: your own independent draft (written to a temp file in step 1, before you saw the panel), Codex's output, and Gemini's output. Codex and Gemini ran read-only as advisors — they may be right, partial, stale, or wrong. Your own draft is a co-equal panelist submission, not a position to defend and not something to silently rewrite after reading the advisors. Your job is to fuse all three into one answer you then act on.

Procedure

1. Extract each panelist's key claims, recommendations, and assumptions — separately for all three (your draft, Codex, Gemini), each weighed on its merits. Do not default to the advisors; your own draft carries equal weight.
2. Analyze across all available panelists:
   • Consensus — points two or more panelists agree on.
   • Contradictions — direct disagreements. Resolve them; pick what's correct and say why.
   • Partial coverage — important aspects only one panelist addressed.
   • Unique insights — novel, correct points worth keeping.
   • Blind spots — things every panelist missed that you should add.
3. Fuse — derive a single answer grounded in the analysis above.

Rules

• Correctness beats vote count. Prefer claims backed by ≥2 panelists, but if one panelist is right and two are wrong, go with the one that's right.
• Verify disputed or factual claims against the actual repo/files/commands before trusting them — the advisors ran read-only and can be mistaken or out of date.
• Never fabricate agreement or invent panelist content. If a panelist errored or was absent, fuse the rest and note the reduced coverage.
• Integrate, don't transcribe. Don't dump raw panel outputs; a short "where they diverged" note is enough.
• Your draft is one of three, not the referee's chair. Treat your step-1 draft as a fixed submission with equal standing, and state briefly how it was confirmed, corrected, or extended by the advisors. If the draft is missing (you skipped step 1) or a panelist errored, say so and note the fusion was degraded to the available submissions.
• The fused answer is yours. Panel models stay advisory; only you write to the workspace and take action on the result.