ai-academic-ethics

ai-academic-ethics is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using AI responsibly in academic writing and research, including disclosure and compliance with university or journal rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess acceptable AI assistance, disclose AI use, understand institutional or publisher policies, and handle concerns about AI detection tools.
Why use it?
It helps avoid ethical problems such as presenting AI as an author or using AI without checking its accuracy and reporting requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess acceptable AI assistance, disclose AI use, understand institutional or publisher policies, and handle concerns about AI detection tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/ai-academic-ethics
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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill ai-academic-ethics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,591 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 $0.00000 $0.02591
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00259

Measured 12d ago against content hash bc26393366d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-academic-ethics 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/ai-academic-ethics/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Academic Ethics

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into academic writing has necessitated immediate and profound policy evolution across publishers, institutions, and style guide committees. The landscape is evolving rapidly — always verify current policies with your specific institution and target journal.


The Fundamental Rule Across All Publishers

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors on any research paper.

Authorship implies:

  • Legal accountability for the work's integrity
  • Ethical responsibility for the data and claims
  • Ability to assert the integrity of research
  • Capacity to hold copyright

AI systems inherently lack all of these. Assigning authorship to an AI is a violation of academic publishing standards regardless of the publisher or discipline.


What AI Can and Cannot Ethically Do

Generally Acceptable (with disclosure)

  • Improving language clarity, grammar, and style
  • Translating content from one language to another
  • Summarising literature (with human verification of accuracy)
  • Generating initial outlines or brainstorming structures
  • Checking for logical consistency in arguments
  • Formatting references (always verify manually)
  • Generating alternative phrasings for a passage you've already written

Ethically Contested / Requires Explicit Disclosure

  • Drafting substantial sections of text (even when heavily revised by the human author)
  • Synthesising literature across many sources
  • Generating research ideas, hypotheses, or study designs
  • Processing or interpreting data

Generally Not Acceptable

  • Having AI write the paper with minimal human intellectual contribution
  • Presenting AI-generated arguments as your own original analysis
  • Using AI to generate data or fabricate citations (a growing academic fraud risk)
  • Submitting AI-generated text without any disclosure

Key principle: The human author retains full, unmitigated accountability for all AI-generated content included in a submission — for its accuracy, integrity, and originality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 12d ago First seen · 235 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bc26393366d9

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ai-academic-ethics is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,591 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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