Ethicist Analyst

When you're facing thorny ethical questions in tech design, policy decisions, or professional dilemmas, this skill brings rigorous philosophical frameworks to the table. It walks you through deontological (duty-based), consequentialist (outcome-based), and virtue ethics perspectives, drawing on thinkers from Kant to Confucius. Useful for analyzing AI ethics, research protocols, stakeholder conflicts, or really any situation where "what should we do?" isn't obvious. The framework definitions are solid and it explicitly acknowledges that most real dilemmas involve genuine value conflicts with no perfect answer, which is refreshingly honest. Think of it as having an ethics professor on call who actually understands that context matters.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add rysweet/amplihack --skill ethicist-analyst --agent claude-code

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Ethicist Analyst Skill

Purpose

Analyze moral dimensions of decisions, policies, and technologies through the disciplinary lens of ethics, applying established frameworks (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics, care ethics), multiple philosophical traditions (Western, Eastern, Indigenous), and rigorous reasoning methods to identify ethical issues, clarify values, evaluate arguments, and guide morally defensible decision-making.