debate
Have several agents argue across rounds (persistent sessions) and return the full transcript.
How to use it
debate is exposed by the Rutherford MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the debate tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Rutherford MCP Server
rutherford-mcp-serverOther tools in Rutherford MCP Server (16)
Show only the jobs in flight right now, each with a live elapsed time.
Run an offline report over the kept run corpus (e.g. historicalagreement cross-lineage agreement).
Cancel a running background job and tear down its work.
List the registered agents (id, display name, launch command, provider) — the cheap snapshot.
Ask the same prompt of several agents in parallel; return every voice.
Resume or build on a completed durable job (delegate / consensus / debate) with a new prompt.
Hand one task to one ACP agent; get one normalized result back.
Detect installed ACP agents from the community registry and propose reviewable config blocks.
Probe each agent with a real read-only ACP round trip and report conformance.
Return a finished job's result envelope (identical to the sync envelope).
Report one background job's status and timings.
List the background jobs being tracked (every status), newest first.
List the role personas you can pass as role="<id>".
Produce an implementation plan for a task without making changes (read-only by construction).
Reload the named multi-agent panel definitions from config without restarting the server.
Review a diff or a working dir's changes across one or more agents — a code-review-shaped consensus.