think-ethical-matrix

think-ethical-matrix is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills. It costs 134 tokens per session (2,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An ethical impact grid that compares affected people and other parties with principles such as wellbeing, independence, and fairness. It can include parties without a voice, such as future generations or the environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a proposal’s ethical effects on customers, workers, communities, animals, ecosystems, future generations, and other affected groups before making a decision.
Why use it?
It keeps trade-offs visible by examining every party against every principle instead of letting a discussion jump between groups and values. It maps the issues but does not decide the final answer.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the thinking-framework-skills plugin — 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine a proposal’s ethical effects on customers, workers, communities, animals, ecosystems, future generations, and other affected groups before making a decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-ethical-matrix
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 product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills --skill think-ethical-matrix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thinking-framework-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,097 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 $0.00134 $0.02097
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01048
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00210

Measured 12d ago against content hash bc4d26934539, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

think-ethical-matrix 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/think-ethical-matrix/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ethical Matrix

An "is this ethical?" debate over a concrete proposal tends to slide: it starts on one affected group, drifts to a principle, jumps to a different group, and never holds both axes at once - so the trade-offs that actually matter (a benefit to one party paid for by a burden on another, on a different principle) stay invisible. The ethical matrix refuses that slide. It cross-references the affected parties (rows) against a small fixed set of prima facie ethical principles (columns), and forces a concrete impact specification in every party-by-principle cell. The rows deliberately include parties who cannot speak for themselves - animals, ecosystems, future generations, absent groups - because they get a row whether or not anyone in the room represents them. The durable move is principled cross-referencing: making the trade-offs a single-axis analysis hides become visible and individually contestable.

Two design choices are load-bearing and frequently misunderstood. First, the matrix maps the moral terrain; it does not weigh it. The grid is not an algorithm and emits no verdict - the weighing happens in deliberation over the filled grid. Second, the cells are impact specifications ("how does this affect the wellbeing of small producers"), not perspective voicings ("what would small producers say"). That second point is what separates it from stakeholder perspective-taking. The output is an ethical matrix: a party-by-principle impact grid with each cell tagged factual or contested, a trade-off pattern read-out, and an explicit no-verdict footer.

When to Use

  • A concrete proposal, technology, policy, or feature has multiple affected parties and a genuine moral trade-off among them: who gains, who pays, and on what dimension.
  • Some affected parties have no voice - non-human, future, or absent groups that need representing even though nobody in the room speaks for them.
  • An ethics debate keeps sliding between groups and principles without anyone noticing the slide, and disagreement needs to attach to specific cells rather than to vague unease.
  • A group needs a shared, inspectable structure for a values trade-off, so a position can be defended cell by cell.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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 · 71 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A bc4d26934539

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think-ethical-matrix is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 2,097 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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