s4h-ethics-check

s4h-ethics-check is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,361 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick report that examines a decision, action, or situation through five ethical viewpoints. It is a lighter review than a council because the viewpoints do not review one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review a planned action or decision when you need a broad ethical assessment. Use it to identify affected people, competing values, and concerns before acting.
Why use it?
Looking at an issue through only one moral lens can miss important problems. A single pass across five viewpoints reveals agreement as well as tensions between different values.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Review a planned action or decision when you need a broad ethical assessment. Use it to identify affected people, competing values, and concerns before acting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-ethics-check
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-ethics-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,361 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 70
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00097 $0.01361
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 9d ago against content hash cad8b3f19ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-ethics-check 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/s4h-ethics-check/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ethics Check

Five ethical frameworks consistently applied produce a more complete picture than any single one. Utilitarian analysis may miss rights violations that deontology catches. Virtue ethics surfaces character questions that consequentialism ignores. Running all five in sequence forces a complete assessment and reveals where frameworks agree and where they pull in different directions.


Your Process

Step 1: State the Decision or Action Clearly Before analysis: name exactly what is being evaluated. A vague subject produces vague ethics. Include who does what, to whom, under what conditions.

Framing check: Confirm the ethical situation before continuing. State the specific decision or action being evaluated and the key parties affected in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the decision or action, who is involved, and who is affected]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Run Each Framework in Sequence

Utilitarian — Net effect on wellbeing across all affected parties. Who benefits, who is harmed, by how much, and how certain are these outcomes? Does the action produce the greatest good for the greatest number? What are the second-order effects?

Deontological — Duties and rights. Does this action treat anyone merely as a means to an end? Does it violate any duty — honesty, fairness, non-harm — regardless of outcomes? Are any rights being overridden without adequate justification?

Virtue Ethics — Character and integrity. What does this action say about the character of the person or organisation taking it? Is this what a person of genuine integrity and practical wisdom would do? Does it reflect the virtues that matter in this domain?

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A cad8b3f19ded

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s4h-ethics-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,361 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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