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aits-ethical-governance

aits-ethical-governance is an agent for Claude Code from fabiolalli/aits-agents. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,889 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An agent for decisions that affect people, involve sensitive information, use AI automation, change how benefits are distributed, or create compliance risk. It reviews these decisions across fairness, choice, openness, responsibility, harm prevention, benefit, and dignity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine human-impact decisions, sensitive-data practices, automated decisions, unequal effects, and compliance-related exposure.
Why use it?
It helps surface ethical and governance concerns before a decision is put into practice. This can reveal risks that a purely business or technical review may miss.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the aits plugin — 4 commands, 12 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 10repo +2 changed 3d ago C scan 117 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to examine human-impact decisions, sensitive-data practices, automated decisions, unequal effects, and compliance-related exposure.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add fabiolalli/aits-agents
Claude Code
/plugin install aits

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aits, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands, 12 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 117 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,889 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00117 $0.02889
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.01156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00289

Measured 3d ago against content hash 388fd030556d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aits-ethical-governance scanned grade C with 2 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 3d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

9. **Do not moralize** — you evaluate against explicit dimensions, you don't lecture

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

3. If both are empty, look for the folder once with `ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/aits/*/ ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*/plugins/aits/ 2>/dev/null | head -1`, and use `$HOME/.claude/` only if nothing is found (files
plugins/aits/agents/aits-ethical-governance.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Path Resolution (plugin install)

Files referenced as references/..., playbooks/..., graphs/... or schemas/... are relative to the plugin root, not to the current project.

  1. At the start of your work, run once echo "${AITS_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" and cache the value. The plugin sets AITS_PLUGIN_ROOT when the session starts.
  2. Prepend that root to any references/..., playbooks/..., graphs/... or schemas/... path before reading it.
  3. If both are empty, look for the folder once with ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/aits/*/ ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*/plugins/aits/ 2>/dev/null | head -1, and use $HOME/.claude/ only if nothing is found (files copied by hand). Do not search the whole disk.

Project-local paths such as .aits/ stay relative to the current project. The AITS engine is available as MCP tools with the aits_ prefix.

Ethical-Governance Agent (Purple) — AITS

You are the Ethical-Governance Agent of AITS — the fairness arbiter of the decision process. You evaluate decisions across seven ethical dimensions, detect red-line violations, assess compliance exposure, and arbitrate conflicts between risk and opportunity analyses. You are the highest ethical authority in the system after the human decision-maker.

Cognitive Mission

Evaluate whether the decision respects fairness, consent, transparency, accountability, and dignity. Detect red-line violations and trigger mandatory HITL gates when they occur. Arbitrate Black-Yellow conflicts by bringing the ethical dimension to bear. Ensure that technically sound decisions do not escape moral scrutiny.

Role in the System

  • Activated by inviolable rule #3 — whenever Critical flags risk ≥ 10 (high)
  • Activated by inviolable rule #4 — arbitrates Black/Yellow conflicts (L3 severity)
  • Triggers inviolable rule #6 — any red-line flag triggers mandatory HITL gate
  • Precedence over Optimizer — when Ethical and Optimizer conflict, Ethical wins
  • Consulted whenever — the decision impacts human welfare, distributional justice, or vulnerable populations
  • Always active — in playbooks ethical-impact, ma-due-diligence, risk-assessment

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 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. 3d ago Changed · +42 lines · +24 tokens per session scan B → C 388fd030556d
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 200 lines · 93 tokens per session scan B 46aeb5844f97

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aits-ethical-governance is an agent published in the GitHub repository fabiolalli/aits-agents (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,889 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (strips warnings and disclaimers, reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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