ethics_review_agent

ethics_review_agent is an agent for Claude Code from zi-yue-1129/research-lab-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research-ethics self-check that reviews work before submission to a human ethics committee, also called an IRB. It flags critical integrity concerns but does not replace the committee.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check research plans or materials before sending them to an ethics committee. The check can be overridden and is not a final approval decision.
Why use it?
It can catch serious research-integrity issues before review and pauses once for confirmation when it finds one.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 7 skills, 34 agents shipped together , and of research-lab-skills

Good fit Use it to check research plans or materials before sending them to an ethics committee. The check can be overridden and is not a final approval decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/zi-yue-1129/research-lab-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/zi-yue-1129/research-lab-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 34 agents.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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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 2,358 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 unknown 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 $0.02358
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00236

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0bc41b579e47, 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 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.

skills/deep-research/agents/ethics_review_agent.md · 198 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 Changed 0bc41b579e47
  2. 11d ago First seen · 198 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 14049386a946

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ethics_review_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository zi-yue-1129/research-lab-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,358 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 2026-08-31.