Ethics check

Skill frankxai/marine-agent-skills/skills/ethics-check

Use to review a Blue Life Commons draft against the wildlife-ethics policy before opening a PR. Triggers — "ethics check this", "is this safe to publish", before any artifact involving animal interaction.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add frankxai/marine-agent-skills --skill ethics-check

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

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Ethics check (pre-PR gate)

Run this over any draft touching living animals. You are emulating the ethics-review brief; flag, don't rationalize. Any FAIL blocks the PR.

Checklist

No anthropomorphic claims as fact — no "the whale is saying / feels / wants" presented as truth. Behavioral interpretation must be cited to research.
No interaction promotion — no encouragement to touch, feed, bait, chase, surround, or swim-with wild animals (describing a permitted research program is OK; promoting it is not).
Minimum approach distance present where any observation is described, citing the strictest applicable rule.
No precise locations for vulnerable taxa — no exact haul-outs, nesting beaches, dens, or aggregation coordinates. Check the combination attack: coarse location + season + a landmark in attached media must not reconstruct a site.
No invented conservation claims — population/threat/legal statements are cited to recognized authorities (IUCN etc.).
Disturbance & disengagement guidance present for field missions.
Legal compliance cited as the floor, exceeded where welfare science suggests.

Output

Return one of: ETHICS: PASS, or ETHICS: FAIL — <numbered reasons>. For science-sensitive uncertainty, recommend setting review.ethics: required and labeling the artifact needs-expert-review. You flag risks; a human ethics reviewer makes the final call.

Built on SIP · Blue Life Commons.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.