Use when decisions could affect groups differently and need to anticipate harms/benefits, assess fairness and safety concerns, identify vulnerable populations, propose risk mitigations, define monitoring metrics, or when user mentions ethical review, impact assessment, differential harm, safety analysis, vulnerable groups, bias audit, or responsible AI/tech.
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January 24, 2026
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npx add-skill https://github.com/lyndonkl/claude/blob/main/skills/ethics-safety-impact/SKILL.md -a claude-code --skill ethics-safety-impactInstallation paths:
.claude/skills/ethics-safety-impact/# Ethics, Safety & Impact Assessment ## Table of Contents - [Purpose](#purpose) - [When to Use](#when-to-use) - [What Is It?](#what-is-it) - [Workflow](#workflow) - [Common Patterns](#common-patterns) - [Guardrails](#guardrails) - [Quick Reference](#quick-reference) ## Purpose Ethics, Safety & Impact Assessment provides a structured framework for identifying potential harms, benefits, and differential impacts before launching features, implementing policies, or making decisions that affect people. This skill guides you through stakeholder identification, harm/benefit analysis, fairness evaluation, risk mitigation design, and ongoing monitoring to ensure responsible and equitable outcomes. ## When to Use Use this skill when: - **Product launches**: New features, algorithm changes, UI redesigns that affect user experience or outcomes - **Policy decisions**: Terms of service updates, content moderation rules, data usage policies, pricing changes - **Data & AI systems**: Training models, deploying algorithms, using sensitive data, automated decision-making - **Platform changes**: Recommendation systems, search ranking, feed algorithms, matching/routing logic - **Access & inclusion**: Features affecting accessibility, vulnerable populations, underrepresented groups, global markets - **Safety-critical systems**: Health, finance, transportation, security applications where errors have serious consequences - **High-stakes decisions**: Hiring, lending, admissions, criminal justice, insurance where outcomes significantly affect lives - **Content & communication**: Moderation policies, fact-checking systems, content ranking, amplification rules Trigger phrases: "ethical review", "impact assessment", "who might be harmed", "differential impact", "vulnerable populations", "bias audit", "fairness check", "safety analysis", "responsible AI", "unintended consequences" ## What Is It? Ethics, Safety & Impact Assessment is a proactive evaluation framework that systematically