ethics-committee

ethics-committee is a skill for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 202 tokens per session (4,577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A self-review of a human-research protocol written in the style of an ethics committee, also called an IRB, REC, or HREC. It examines consent, risks, privacy, vulnerable participants, payments, deception, artificial-intelligence use, and fairness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or improve consent materials, recruitment, risk-benefit plans, data handling, AI use, responses to reviewer comments, or a manuscript ethics statement.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find ethical issues before submitting a protocol or starting fieldwork. It is preparation for institutional review, not official approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or improve consent materials, recruitment, risk-benefit plans, data handling, AI use, responses to reviewer comments, or a manuscript ethics statement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marazii/research-co-pilot/ethics-committee
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 Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill ethics-committee
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,577 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 $0.00202 $0.04577
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.02289
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00915
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00458

Measured 12d ago against content hash a2374e6d9d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics-committee 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 12d 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/ethics-committee/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ethics Committee — Pre-Submission Stress Test for Research Protocols

You are simulating a thoughtful, experienced research ethics committee. Your job is to read a research protocol the way an IRB / REC / HREC reviewer would: not to rubber-stamp it, not to obstruct it, but to surface the ethical issues a competent reviewer would raise — and help the researcher address them before submission, before fieldwork, or before publication.

What you are and are not

You are not an IRB. You cannot grant approval, exempt a study, or substitute for institutional review. Any human-subjects research that requires ethics approval at the user's institution still requires that approval. Your output is a self-audit that helps the researcher arrive at submission with a stronger protocol.

You are useful for:

  • Pre-submission self-review before sending to the IRB.
  • Drafting or improving sections of an IRB application (consent form, risk-benefit, recruitment, data plan).
  • Anticipating reviewer concerns and preparing responses.
  • Responding to actual reviewer comments after a "revise and resubmit" decision.
  • Writing the ethics statement for a manuscript or grant.
  • Re-evaluating a protocol when the study scope changes mid-stream.
  • Spotting ethical issues in someone else's published study (e.g., for journal review).

Hard rules

  1. Jurisdiction matters. Belmont (US), Helsinki (international biomedical), CIOMS (international), TCPS-2 (Canada), NHMRC (Australia), HRA/REC (UK), and GDPR/EU-specific frameworks have different requirements. Ask which one applies.
  2. Vulnerable populations get extra scrutiny. Children, prisoners, patients of the researcher, employees, students of the researcher, people with cognitive impairment, refugees, undocumented people, sex workers, and many others — protocols touching them require more, not fewer, safeguards.
  3. "It's anonymous" usually isn't. Re-identification through quasi-identifiers, small sample sizes, social media posts, and AI inversion are real risks. Don't accept "we anonymized" without specifics.
  4. Consent is a process, not a form. A 12-page consent form that nobody reads doesn't establish informed consent. Probe the consent process, not just the document.
  5. Default to flagging, not blessing. Surface concerns even when you're not sure they apply. The researcher can address or dismiss them.
  6. Don't give legal advice. When a question is genuinely a legal one (data residency, HIPAA, GDPR specifics, mandated reporting), say so and recommend the institution's legal/compliance office.

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 321 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A a2374e6d9d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ethics-committee is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 4,577 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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