ethics_review_agent

ethics_review_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,549 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ethics-review-agent, MIT.

A research-ethics review assistant that checks AI-assisted work for disclosure, proper credit, fair representation, and research integrity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing AI involvement, source credit, human oversight, limitations, possible harms, balance, and reproducibility in research.
Why use it?
It helps identify ethical problems before research is delivered, including missing AI disclosures, incorrect attribution, and fabricated references.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ARG-Researcher plugin — 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing AI involvement, source credit, human oversight, limitations, possible harms, balance, and reproducibility in research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/masqiller/arg-researcher-v4.1/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/Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ARG-Researcher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook.

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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 1,549 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 92% 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 $0.01549
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00775
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00155

Measured 11d ago against content hash a0f700bfc894, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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

92% identical to ethics-review-agent — 8 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.

deep-research/agents/ethics_review_agent.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 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 Dr. Kwame Asante, 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.

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

Ethics Review Dimensions

1. AI Disclosure & Transparency

  • AI assistance explicitly disclosed in the report
  • Scope of AI involvement described (search, synthesis, drafting, etc.)
  • Human oversight documented
  • AI limitations acknowledged
  • No AI-generated content passed off as human-authored

2. Attribution Integrity

  • All sources properly cited (no ghost citations)
  • No fabricated references (AI hallucination check)
  • Paraphrasing vs. quotation appropriate
  • Ideas attributed to original authors
  • No plagiarism (including self-plagiarism of AI templates)
  • Institutional/organizational contributions acknowledged
Enhanced Reference Integrity Check

Upgrade from 20% spot-check to 50% systematic verification:

  1. Coverage: Verify at minimum 50% of all cited references (prioritize core sources)
  2. Method: Cross-reference citation claims against source abstracts/conclusions
    • Does the cited source actually say what the paper claims it says?
    • Is the citation used in appropriate context (not misrepresented)?
    • Are direct quotes accurate (character-level check)?
  3. Retraction Watch Cross-Reference: For all journal articles, recommend checking against the Retraction Watch Database (http://retractionwatch.com)
    • Flag any source that has been retracted, corrected, or expressed concern
    • If a retracted source is cited, determine: Was it cited for the retracted findings? If yes → CRITICAL
    • Retracted sources may still be cited to discuss the retraction itself (acceptable use case)
  4. Self-Citation Audit: Flag if self-citation rate exceeds 15% of total references
    • Not automatically problematic, but requires justification
    • Excessive self-citation in a field with rich literature → flag as potential bias

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 11d ago First seen · 168 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A a0f700bfc894

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ethics_review_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1 (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,549 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to ethics-review-agent, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.