ethics-review-checklist

ethics-review-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (10,010 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editorial ethics checklist is a story-specific list of questions about consent, possible harm, sources, conflicts of interest, and the public interest.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports publication reviews involving vulnerable people, anonymous sources, named subjects, conflicts of interest, or sensitive reporting.
Why use it?
It helps editors identify ethical and legal risks before publishing a story.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It supports publication reviews involving vulnerable people, anonymous sources, named subjects, conflicts of interest, or sensitive reporting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/ethics-review-checklist
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill ethics-review-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,010 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00046 $0.10010
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.05005
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.02002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01001

Measured 8d ago against content hash 888380bf6853, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethics-review-checklist 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 8d 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/magazine-journalism/editing/ethics-review-checklist/SKILL.md · 561 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 561 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ethics Review Checklist

What This Skill Does

Generates a publication-specific editorial ethics checklist tailored to the risks of a particular story — covering consent, harm minimization, source protection, vulnerable subjects, conflicts of interest, right of reply, public interest justification, and legal exposure.

When To Use This Skill

  • A story is approaching publication and the editor wants a documented record that all ethical obligations have been considered before sign-off
  • The story involves named individuals who did not initiate contact with the publication — they were found, identified, or exposed by the reporting
  • The story names or could identify vulnerable subjects: minors, crime victims, people experiencing mental health crises, refugees, or anyone in a position where publication could cause direct harm
  • A source has been promised anonymity and you need to verify that the published text does not inadvertently identify them through detail accumulation
  • The reporter has a potential conflict of interest — personal relationship with the subject, financial interest in the outcome, prior public statements on the issue
  • The story could cause reputational, financial, or physical harm to named individuals and you need to document the public interest justification for publication
  • You are editing an investigative piece and want to ensure right of reply has been offered to everyone who is accused or characterized negatively
  • A legal threat has been received and you need to document the ethical basis for proceeding with publication

What You Need To Provide

Required: A summary of the story (500+ words preferred), including: the central claim or narrative, who is named or identifiable, what allegations or characterizations are made about them, how sources were obtained, and whether any sources requested anonymity.

Optional: The publication's code of ethics or editorial standards (if one exists); the jurisdiction of publication (ethics standards vary by country and press council); whether legal counsel has already reviewed the draft; the publication timeline and any external pressure to publish (competitive, legal deadline, news cycle); prior correspondence with subjects (especially any right-of-reply responses or legal threats); the reporter's relationship to the story or subjects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 561 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. 8d ago First seen · 561 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 888380bf6853

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ethics-review-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 10,010 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.