ethical-design

ethical-design is a skill for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 17 tokens per session (291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing products that respect users and avoid manipulative patterns, such as hidden costs, confusing choices, or difficult cancellation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing sign-up, checkout, subscriptions, notifications, consent screens, and other user decisions.
Why use it?
It helps you make consent, pricing, privacy, and user controls clear rather than relying on tricks to influence decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing sign-up, checkout, subscriptions, notifications, consent screens, and other user decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/ethical-design
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 Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste --skill ethical-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 291 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 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 $0.00017 $0.00291
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 6d ago against content hash c34b37d4e168, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethical-design 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.

skills/ethical-design/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Ethical Design

Dark Patterns to Avoid

Pattern What It Does Instead
Confirmshaming 'No, I don't want to save money' Neutral decline option
Hidden costs Reveal fees at checkout Show total cost upfront
Roach motel Easy to subscribe, hard to cancel Equal effort for both
Forced continuity Auto-charge after trial without warning Clear trial end notification
Misdirection Design draws attention from important info Equal visual weight for choices
Trick questions Confusing double-negatives Simple, clear language
Sneak into basket Auto-add items to cart Explicit user selection only

Responsible Design

  1. Transparency: Users understand what they're agreeing to
  2. Fairness: Options have equal visual weight
  3. Respect: Don't exploit cognitive biases for profit
  4. Control: Users can easily undo, cancel, or change decisions
  5. Privacy: Minimum data collection, clear consent

Attention Design

  • Don't design for addiction (infinite scroll without end, variable reward manipulation)
  • Show usage time if appropriate
  • Allow notification management
  • Design for user wellbeing, not just engagement metrics
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 · 32 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A c34b37d4e168

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ethical-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 291 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 2026-09-03.

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