SYSTEM · 体系
The 591 System: Five Councils, Nine Ministries, One Academy
Fourteen hundred years of Chinese governance, compiled into a general multi-agent problem-solving engine: 15 agents with separated powers, checks and balances, parallel execution — and self-improvement after every task.
Why the Three Departments model
The Tang dynasty's Three Departments and Six Ministries was not about hierarchy but about separation of powers: deciding, reviewing and executing sat in different bodies, and the Chancellery could veto a flawed edict. The most common failure of multi-agent AI is exactly the opposite — the same agent writes the plan and approves it.
- Separation of powers
Planning, review and execution are handled by independent agents.
- Mandatory review
The Remonstrance council can reject a plan — a hard architectural constraint, not an option.
- Full observability
Every state transition is logged and visible in real time.
- Real-time intervention
Tasks can be paused, cancelled or changed at any stage.
Pipeline
- You (the sovereign)
- 察省
- 策省
- 谏省
- 协省
- Nine ministries in parallel
- 验省
- Coordination delivers
- You (the sovereign)
↺ The Academy reviews and evolves in the background
Five Councils · decide and coordinate
- 察省 Perception
Perceives and defines the problem
- 策省 Strategy
Generates strategies and options
- 谏省 Remonstrance
Adversarial review — may reject the plan
- 协省 Coordination
Orchestrates and delivers (team lead)
- 验省 Verification
Verification and quality assurance
Nine Ministries · execute
- 兵部 War
Market · competition · growth
- 吏部 Personnel
Talent · organisation · management
- 礼部 Rites
Brand · communication · experience
- 户部 Revenue
Finance · data · analysis
- 刑部 Justice
Law · compliance · security
- 工部 Works
Engineering · technology · product
- 学部 Learning
Research · learning · knowledge
- 医部 Medicine
Diagnosis · optimisation · repair
- 创部 Creation
Innovation · exploration · experiment
One Academy · meta layer
- 进院 Evolution Academy
Evolution and learning: reviews every task in the background
Usage
/591 帮我分析进入日本市场的策略- Default: the full pipeline
/591 极速 修复这个 bug- Fast: a lean pipeline for quick fixes
/591 严审 设计年度产品 roadmap- Strict: heavier review and verification
/591 诊断 网站流量为什么下降了 40%- Diagnose: find the root cause
/591 进化- Run the Academy review to improve the system itself
The system family
Origin philosophy and classical Chinese governance, compiled into runnable multi-agent architectures.
- 591 Agent System — Five Councils, Nine Ministries, One Academy: 15 agents, 4 execution modes and a self-improving loop.
- Three Departments & Six Ministries — A 12-agent architecture modelled on the Tang dynasty system: separation of powers, mandatory review, full observability.
- Universal Orchestrator — ChatGPT plans and reviews, Codex executes within a defined scope — skill and hand-off templates.
- Origin Skill — Turns every Claude Code conversation into work logs and playbooks, improving through PDCA.