ethics-application

ethics-application is a command for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 19 tokens per session (405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for drafting an ethics application for research involving people. An IRB or similar review board checks whether a study protects its participants before data collection begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare applications for studies involving surveys, interviews, site observation, wearable sensors, video, or virtual-reality experiments. It also helps outline participant information and consent documents.
Why use it?
It helps organize the details needed for ethics review, including consent, privacy, risks, recruitment, and permissions. This reduces the chance of overlooking important protections.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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 commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/ethics-application
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 405 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 5.1 $0.00019 $0.00405
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9d9affbcfa6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics-application 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 6d 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.

aec-scholar/commands/ethics-application.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Help draft a research-ethics / IRB / REB application for: $ARGUMENTS

Use the research-ethics-integrity and research-methods skills.

Many AEC studies involve people — surveys, interviews, site observation, worker wearables/physiological sensing, VR experiments, video on site — and therefore need ethics approval before data collection.

Draft application content covering:

  1. Study overview — aim, design, and what participation involves.

  2. Participants — who, how many, recruitment, and inclusion/exclusion. Flag any power imbalance (employees, students, site workers) and how voluntariness is protected.

  3. Informed consent — how consent is obtained (draft a participant information sheet + consent form outline), voluntariness, and the right to withdraw.

  4. Data & privacy — what personal/sensitive data are collected (note wearables/biometrics/video as sensitive), how they are anonymized/pseudonymized, stored, secured, retained and destroyed, and the GDPR/data-protection lawful basis.

  5. Risks & benefits — physical (site/PPE), psychological, privacy risks and mitigations; benefits.

  6. Site/organizational permissions — access agreements, gatekeeper consent, and confidentiality/NDAs for project data.

  7. Conflicts & funding — declarations.

Produce the drafted sections plus a checklist of attachments the user must provide (information sheet, consent form, instruments, risk assessment). This is drafting support, not ethical or legal approval — tell the user to follow their institution's specific ethics process and forms, which govern.

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. 6d ago First seen · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9d9affbcfa6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ethics-application is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 405 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.