ethical-philosophy-guide

ethical-philosophy-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 14 tokens per session (2,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to applied ethics research, the study of moral questions in areas such as medicine, technology, business, law, and the environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research ethical issues, compare moral frameworks, evaluate arguments, and study topics such as AI, surveillance, or gene editing.
Why use it?
It helps connect philosophical reasoning with real-world decisions where laws and existing policies may not settle what should be done.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to research ethical issues, compare moral frameworks, evaluate arguments, and study topics such as AI, surveillance, or gene editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/ethical-philosophy-guide
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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill ethical-philosophy-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,154 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 $0.00014 $0.02154
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00215

Measured 7d ago against content hash f45e3a4320bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ethical-philosophy-guide 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 7d 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/domains/humanities/ethical-philosophy-guide/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Applied Ethics Research Guide

Overview

Applied ethics is the branch of philosophy that addresses concrete moral questions in specific domains: medicine, technology, business, environment, law, and research itself. Unlike metaethics (which asks what moral terms mean) or normative ethics (which develops general moral theories), applied ethics works at the intersection of philosophical reasoning and real-world decision-making.

The field has exploded in relevance as emerging technologies -- artificial intelligence, gene editing, autonomous weapons, surveillance systems -- create moral dilemmas that existing law and policy cannot resolve. Applied ethics research requires both philosophical rigor (clear argument structure, engagement with existing frameworks) and empirical grounding (understanding the technology, institution, or practice being evaluated).

This guide covers the major ethical frameworks used in applied ethics, methods for constructing and evaluating ethical arguments, the landscape of subfields (bioethics, AI ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics), and practical guidance for publishing in philosophy and interdisciplinary venues.

Major Ethical Frameworks

Framework Comparison

Framework Core Principle Decision Procedure Strengths Weaknesses
Utilitarianism Maximize aggregate well-being Calculate consequences Clear, impartial Ignores rights, demandingness
Kantianism Respect rational autonomy Apply categorical imperative Rights-based, universalizable Rigid, conflicting duties
Virtue ethics Cultivate excellent character Ask "what would a virtuous person do?" Context-sensitive, holistic Vague, culturally relative
Care ethics Attend to relationships Prioritize care for vulnerable Relational, concrete Limited scope, partiality
Contractualism Principles no one could reasonably reject Seek overlapping consensus Fair, procedural Excludes non-agents
Rights-based Protect fundamental entitlements Identify and enforce rights Strong protections Rights conflicts, indeterminacy

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 7d ago First seen · 245 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A f45e3a4320bc

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ethical-philosophy-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,154 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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