Ethical stewardship

Establish and maintain software ethics not as a series of rigid compliance checklists, but as a dynamic stewardship practice and moral bridge for human-agent collaboration.

This skill guides agents and humans to work side-by-side to elicit, translate, and refine context-appropriate ethical constraints for any project.

When to use

• Bootstrapping a repository's ethical core, project credo, or team values.
• Helping a team identify implicit ethical choices and code styling preferences in an existing repository.
• Translating abstract moral principles (like user trust or simplicity) into quantifiable technical constraints.
• Resolving design trade-offs (e.g., balancing speed vs. quality) through a clear ethical decision framework.
• Auditing a proposed design, dependency, or feature against product quality boundaries.

1. The Human-Agent Stewardship Workflow

AI agents and humans should collaboratively guide the repository's ethical lifecycle using the following four-phase loop: