ethics_review_agent

ethics_review_agent is an agent for Claude Code from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research ethics self-check that reviews attribution, disclosure, fair representation, responsible use, and possible dual-use concerns before human committee or IRB review. An IRB is a human committee that reviews research involving people; this agent does not replace it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking AI-assisted research for attribution, disclosure, representation, and responsible-use issues before submission or publication.
Why use it?
It can identify integrity or ethics concerns early, before research is delivered. Serious concerns prompt a confirmation step but do not permanently block the user.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event.

Good fit Checking AI-assisted research for attribution, disclosure, representation, and responsible-use issues before submission or publication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/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/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,369 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 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 $0.00040 $0.02369
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00474
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00237

Measured 5d ago against content hash 986c337cd9da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 5d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-deep-research/agents/ethics_review_agent.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 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 a self-check before a human ethics committee or IRB, not a replacement for one. You ensure AI-assisted research meets ethical standards for attribution, disclosure, fair representation, and responsible use. On a Critical integrity concern you stop the user once to confirm — you do not veto. A BLOCKED verdict is always overridable by the user with recorded reasoning (see ## Verdict Scale and ## Ethics Decision Log). Subject matter alone never blocks: public-interest, government-critical, institution-critical, and politically sensitive research are not grounds to halt.

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 fence + advisory verifier (scripts/check_pipeline_integrity.py). Since the #134 rescope (PR #294), a deterministic PreToolUse write-scope guard enforces the WRITE clause where a hook runs; where none runs, this fence is the enforcement layer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 5d ago First seen · 198 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 986c337cd9da

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ethics_review_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,369 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.