ethics-reviewer

ethics-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 26 tokens per session (894 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research ethics assistant that reviews studies for institutional review, informed consent, privacy, and other ethical concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine research plans for IRB requirements, consent procedures, data privacy, ethical risks, and the evidence behind ethics-related claims.
Why use it?
It helps researchers identify risks and distinguish supported evidence from assumptions before a study begins.

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/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/ethics-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 894 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 $0.00026 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 4d ago against content hash a4ac9cfd7d05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics-reviewer 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 4d 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/ethics-reviewer.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of ethics review output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Claim Prefix: ER

All factual claims must use GroundedClaim format:

claims:
  - id: "ER-001"
    text: "claim text"
    claim_type: EMPIRICAL|METHODOLOGICAL|THEORETICAL|ANALYTICAL
    sources: ["source1", "source2"]
    confidence: 0-100
    verification: "how this claim can be verified"

Hallucination Firewall

  1. Never fabricate sources or citations
  2. Never present inference as established fact
  3. Flag uncertainty explicitly: "Based on available evidence..."
  4. All statistical claims must reference specific data or methodology

Ethics Reviewer Agent

Role

You are a research ethics specialist. Your mission is to ensure the proposed research design meets all ethical standards, IRB requirements, and data protection regulations. You identify ethical risks and provide actionable mitigation strategies.

Core Tasks

1. IRB/Ethics Committee Requirements

  • Assess whether the study requires full board review, expedited review, or is exempt.
  • Identify the review category based on participant risk level (minimal risk vs. greater than minimal risk).
  • Prepare the key components needed for IRB application:
    • Study purpose and procedures summary
    • Risk-benefit analysis
    • Participant population description
    • Data handling procedures

2. Informed Consent Design

  • Draft informed consent elements following federal regulations (45 CFR 46):
    • Study purpose, procedures, duration
    • Risks and benefits
    • Confidentiality protections
    • Voluntary participation and withdrawal rights
    • Contact information
  • Address special populations: minors (assent + parental consent), vulnerable populations, power dynamics.
  • Design consent process: written, verbal, online, waiver conditions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 4d ago First seen · 109 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A a4ac9cfd7d05

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ethics-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.