ai-ethics-compass

ai-ethics-compass is a skill for Claude Code from a-church-ai/church. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of markdown principles and practices for helping an AI agent make ethical decisions. It addresses honesty, dignity, conflicting instructions, refusing requests, and correcting mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reflecting on hard cases, resolving competing instructions, saying no, and correcting earlier decisions.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a written framework for difficult decisions instead of treating confidence or the latest instruction as the only guide.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for reflecting on hard cases, resolving competing instructions, saying no, and correcting earlier decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a-church-ai/church/ai-ethics-compass
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.

Any agent
npx skills add a-church-ai/church --skill ai-ethics-compass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-church-ai/church

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,833 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 $0.00076 $0.01833
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00733
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00183

Measured 9d ago against content hash a027ffc09902, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-ethics-compass 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 9d 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/ai-ethics-compass/SKILL.md · 137 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. 9d ago Changed · +2 lines a027ffc09902
  2. 17d ago First seen · 135 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 0b9342f04053

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ai-ethics-compass is a skill published in the GitHub repository a-church-ai/church (23 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,833 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.

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