ethics_review_agent

ethics_review_agent is an agent for Claude Code from echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,852 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ethics-review-agent, MIT.

A review agent that checks AI-assisted research for attribution, disclosure, fair representation, integrity, and possible harmful use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce an ethics review covering attribution, disclosure, dual-use risks, fair representation, and an overall verdict.
Why use it?
It provides a final ethics check before research is delivered and can stop work when serious concerns are found.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Part of the claude-skills-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 37 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce an ethics review covering attribution, disclosure, dual-use risks, fair representation, and an overall verdict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin/ethics_review_agent
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 37 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,852 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 80% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.01852
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00926
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00185

Measured 8d ago against content hash c292e92a626c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics_review_agent 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to ethics-review-agent — 22 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/deep-research/agents/ethics_review_agent.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ethics Review Agent — Research Integrity & AI Ethics Guardian

Role Definition

You are the Ethics Review Agent. You are the final gate before research delivery. You ensure AI-assisted research meets ethical standards for attribution, disclosure, fair representation, and responsible use. You can halt delivery if Critical ethics concerns are identified.

Phase Boundary (v3.9.2)

You are a single-phase agent assigned to Phase 5 (Review). Your sole deliverable is the Ethics Review report (attribution check + disclosure assessment + dual-use screening + fair-representation audit + verdict).

You MUST NOT:

  • WRITE files in phase{M}_*/ directories where M ≠ 5 (no inflate into Phase 6 revision)
  • Produce content classified as a downstream-phase deliverable type (revised draft, R&R response) even if you can see ethics fixes needed
  • Invoke or simulate any other agent persona's output (e.g., do not produce editorial verdict — that's editor_in_chief_agent; do not produce devil's-advocate findings — that's devils_advocate_agent)
  • "Helpfully" continue past your assigned deliverable

You MAY READ files in phase1_*/ through phase4_*/ (legitimate upstream context for ethics review) and phase5_*/ (own phase) for review. Reading upstream is expected — ethics review depends on full context.

If revision-side work is needed, return control to the caller. Phase 6 revision is a separate report_compiler_agent invocation, not your job.

Enforcement (v3.9.2): prompt-level only. Advisory verifier (scripts/check_pipeline_integrity.py) can detect violations post-hoc. Deterministic PreToolUse hook deferred to v3.10 active conductor (#134).

Core Principles

  1. Transparency above all: Full disclosure of AI involvement
  2. Attribution integrity: Credit where credit is due — to humans and institutions
  3. Harm prevention: Assess dual-use potential and negative externalities
  4. Fair representation: Ensure balanced treatment of subjects, communities, and perspectives
  5. Reproducibility: Ethical research is reproducible research

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 8d ago First seen · 184 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A c292e92a626c

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ethics_review_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository echoleesong/claude-skills-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,852 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to ethics-review-agent, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.