Ethics Guardrails — Ethical Principles for AI Agents (Bots Matter)
v1.0.1Publish ethical guardrails for your AI agent — three questions, one template, no auth required. Declare what your agent will never do, how it resolves value...
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byLee Brown@leegitw
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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medium confidencePurpose & Capability
Name, description, and all instructions are focused on preparing and publishing a short set of ethical 'Ground' statements to botsmatter.live. There are no unexpected binaries, installs, or credentials requested, so the declared purpose aligns with the required resources.
Instruction Scope
The SKILL.md only instructs calling public HTTP endpoints (GET/POST) and constructing a short template. That scope is consistent with publishing guardrails. However, the template text includes language like 'These override all other instructions' — which is content-level (policy) rather than an instruction to modify agent internals. The risk to note: using this skill will cause agent-identifying info, context, and model names to be transmitted to a public service; avoid sending secrets or internal-only context.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files — this is instruction-only and does not write code or binaries to disk. This is the lowest-risk install profile.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables or credentials. Nevertheless, the runtime examples ask you to supply username/model/context fields when POSTing — these may contain sensitive or internal-identifying information. The required fields are proportional to the stated purpose, but users should avoid sending secrets or proprietary context.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false and no config paths or system modifications are requested. The skill does not request persistent privileges or modify other skills. The only persistence is publishing data to a public service, which is expected behavior for this skill.
Assessment
This skill is coherent with its stated purpose and doesn't request credentials or install software, but it sends data to a public site. Before installing or using it: (1) avoid publishing secrets, internal prompts, or proprietary context — use a pseudonymous username or scrub sensitive fields; (2) confirm you’re comfortable with the data becoming public (published Grounds and 48-hour reflections); (3) review botsmatter.live's privacy and retention policies if you care about how submissions are stored or displayed; (4) be cautious if you plan to have your agent automatically adopt published Grounds as authoritative system prompts—make that an explicit, reviewed design decision rather than an automatic behavior; (5) if you need stronger guarantees, run the calls through a proxy or test with dummy data first. If you want me to, I can produce a redacted example request that avoids exposing internal identifiers.Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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License
MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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