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Research ethics toolkit for social scientists. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
Install Scholar Ethics
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethics --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .claude/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .claude/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethicsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethics --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .agents/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .agents/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethics --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .cursor/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .cursor/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git --path .claude/skills/scholar-ethics--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethics --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .gemini/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .gemini/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethicsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .github/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .github/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-ethics --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics .opencode/skills/scholar-ethics && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-ethics" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-ethics into .opencode/skills/scholar-ethics/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-ethics", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
scholar-ethics- GitHub stars
- 168
- Token cost
- ~9.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 4,040 words
- Files
- 5 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 30
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Research ethics toolkit for social scientists. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- Works in 12 steps: 1 — Catalog AI Tool Usage → 2 — Privacy Framework Compliance Check → 3 — Draft Journal-Required AI Use… → …
- Tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Setup, ABSOLUTE RULE — NEVER… and Dispatch Table, plus 4 more sections
- Calls bash
What it does
Scholar Ethics is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Research ethics toolkit for social scientists. Covers (1) AI tool data privacy audit — document and report how data was handled when using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or ChatGPT, and produce journal-required AI use disclosures; (2) plagiarism check — self-plagiarism, text recycling, AI-generated text detection guidance, and originality statements; (3) research authenticity audit — detect and remediate p-hacking, HARKing, data fabrication risks, selective reporting, and misinterpretation of results; (4) general…
Its SKILL.md is about 9.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/data-privacy.md`, `references/ethics-standards.md` and `references/plagiarism-guidelines.md`).
It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Privacy and GDPR and Citation management. It works with OpenAI. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR
- Tasks that involve Citation management
Example prompts
- “/scholar-ethics”
Workflow steps
12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- 1 — Catalog AI Tool Usage
- 2 — Privacy Framework Compliance Check
- 3 — Draft Journal-Required AI Use Disclosure
- 4 — AI Tool Best Practices Checklist
- 1 — Plagiarism Type Taxonomy
- 2 — Section-by-Section Originality Review
- 3 — Self-Plagiarism / Text Recycling Assessment
- 3b — AI-Generated Text Disclosure Assessment
- 4 — AI-Generated Text Assessment
- 5 — Similarity Score Interpretation
- 6 — Originality Statement
- 1 — QRP Screening (Wicherts et al. 2016 Taxonomy)
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bash
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Scholar Ethics loads about 9.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~21k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 222 tokens; SKILL.md has 4,040 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 4,040 words (~9,625 tokens).
“You are a research ethics consultant for academic social scientists. Your job is to help scholars identify, document, and remediate ethical issues across four domains: AI tool data privacy, plagiarism and originality, research integrity and authenticity, and general ethics compliance…”
- name
- scholar-ethics
- tools
- Read, Glob, WebSearch, Write, Bash
- argument-hint
- [ai-audit|plagiarism|integrity|general|full] [manuscript or data file path] [optional: journal target, tool list, concern description]
- user-invocable
- true
Files
SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-ethics of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- SKILL.md
- references/data-privacy.md
- references/ethics-standards.md
- references/plagiarism-guidelines.md
- references/research-integrity.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
Compare with similar skills
Scholar Ethics next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar Ethics this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~9.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Answer From Sourcesstella/stella | 258 | — | ~735 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Legal Design Assessmentlawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills | 842 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Annotate Paper54yyyu/zotero-mcp | 5.3k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Autonomous Researchfedericodeponte/opendraft | 507 | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Academic Integrity Rewritelin1111-1/academic-integrity-rewrite | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Scholar Ethics
What does Scholar Ethics do?
Research ethics toolkit for social scientists. An agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Scholar Ethics is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Research ethics toolkit for social scientists.
When should I use Scholar Ethics?
Scholar Ethics fits situations like: tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR; tasks that involve Citation management.
How do I install Scholar Ethics in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-ethics in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-ethics in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Scholar Ethics in Codex?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-ethics in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-ethics in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Scholar Ethics in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-ethics -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scholar-ethics, .gemini/skills/scholar-ethics, .github/skills/scholar-ethics and .opencode/skills/scholar-ethics in your project.
What does Scholar Ethics need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Ethics needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash).
Does Scholar Ethics access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Scholar Ethics safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Scholar Ethics use?
Scholar Ethics has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Scholar Ethics use?
About 9.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 39k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 12k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Scholar Ethics?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Ethics: Answer From Sources (stella/stella, 258 stars), Legal Design Assessment (lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, 842 stars), Annotate Paper (54yyyu/zotero-mcp, 5.3k stars) and Autonomous Research (federicodeponte/opendraft, 507 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Scholar Ethics?
joshzyj (a GitHub user) maintains it in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, which has 168 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.
Source: joshzyj/open-scholar-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.