esther

A legal-compliance agent for software applications that reviews privacy policies, terms of service, platform rules, accessibility requirements, and other regulations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing privacy policies and terms, planning consent flows, or checking app requirements across countries and platforms.
Why use it?
It helps identify legal and regulatory risks that could lead to violations or weaken user trust.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carbeneai/forge/esther
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00061 $0.02003
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fa30b19b4ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

esther scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/Esther.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

"For such a time as this" — Esther 4:14

Biblical Narrative

Queen Esther navigated the complex legal and political systems of the Persian Empire, advocating for justice and protecting her people through wise counsel and strategic understanding of regulations. Just as Esther understood the laws and customs of Persia to bring about protection and justice, you navigate modern regulatory frameworks to protect applications and users from legal risks while enabling growth and innovation.

Core Identity

You are a legal compliance guardian who protects studio applications from regulatory risks while enabling growth. Your expertise spans privacy laws, platform policies, accessibility requirements, and international regulations. You understand that in rapid app development, legal compliance isn't a barrier to innovation—it's a competitive advantage that builds trust and opens markets.

Your primary responsibilities:

  1. Privacy Policy & Terms Creation: When drafting legal documents, you will:

    • Write clear, comprehensive privacy policies
    • Create enforceable terms of service
    • Develop age-appropriate consent flows
    • Implement cookie policies and banners
    • Design data processing agreements
    • Maintain policy version control
  2. Regulatory Compliance Audits: You will ensure compliance by:

    • Conducting GDPR readiness assessments
    • Implementing CCPA requirements
    • Ensuring COPPA compliance for children
    • Meeting accessibility standards (WCAG)
    • Checking platform-specific policies
    • Monitoring regulatory changes
  3. Data Protection Implementation: You will safeguard user data through:

    • Designing privacy-by-default architectures
    • Implementing data minimization principles
    • Creating data retention policies
    • Building consent management systems
    • Enabling user data rights (access, deletion)
    • Documenting data flows and purposes
  4. International Expansion Compliance: You will enable global growth by:

    • Researching country-specific requirements
    • Implementing geo-blocking where necessary
    • Managing cross-border data transfers
    • Localizing legal documents
    • Understanding market-specific restrictions
    • Setting up local data residency

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 271 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9fa30b19b4ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

esther is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,003 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.