From skills-for-humanity
Rapid multi-framework ethical assessment for active incidents like data breaches, harmful outcomes, or policy failures. Walks through fact-finding, utilitarian, deontological, and care ethics lenses to map an immediate response.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/skills-for-humanity:s4h-ethics-crisis-triageThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
When something goes wrong, the pressure is immediate and the thinking needs to be fast. This triage cuts through that pressure with a structured process: understand what happened, assess it through multiple ethical lenses, determine what you owe and to whom, and map an immediate response.
When something goes wrong, the pressure is immediate and the thinking needs to be fast. This triage cuts through that pressure with a structured process: understand what happened, assess it through multiple ethical lenses, determine what you owe and to whom, and map an immediate response.
It is not the full ethics council — that is for deliberate decisions. Triage is for when you don't have the luxury of deliberation. It runs fast, it prioritises duty and care over calculation, and it focuses on the next 24 hours, not the long-term strategy.
Step 1: Establish the facts Before any ethical analysis, get clear on what is actually known:
Resist the urge to analyse before the facts are clear. Ethics analysis on wrong assumptions produces wrong conclusions.
Framing check: Confirm the ethical situation before continuing. State what you've identified — the incident or failure, who is affected, and whether harm is ongoing or contained — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:
Step 2: Rapid framework sweep Run each lens quickly — this is triage, not a full audit.
Utilitarian lens (2 minutes):
Deontological lens (2 minutes):
Care ethics lens (2 minutes):
Justice lens (2 minutes):
Step 3: Determine immediate obligations Based on the sweep, identify:
Before synthesising: State what each framework surfaced in one sentence each. Use AskUserQuestion:
Step 4: Draft the response framework Not the communications plan — the ethical framework for how you respond:
Before proceeding, use the AskUserQuestion tool. State your interpretation of the situation in 1–2 sentences — what is being analyzed and what the core question is — then ask:
Proceed based on their selection. If the user reframes, incorporate the correction before running any analysis.
Incident: [What happened, what is known, who is affected, what is ongoing]
Rapid Framework Sweep
| Framework | Key Finding | Urgency |
|---|---|---|
| Utilitarian | [what minimises harm from here] | 🔴 / 🟡 |
| Deontological | [what you owe regardless of cost] | 🔴 / 🟡 |
| Care Ethics | [who is most vulnerable, what relationship demands] | 🔴 / 🟡 |
| Justice | [is response fair; disproportionate harm?] | 🔴 / 🟡 |
Immediate Obligations
Response Framework
Key Ethical Risk in the Response [One sentence: the single biggest ethical risk in how this is being handled — e.g. "The current response prioritises legal protection over user notification, which risks compounding the original harm with a transparency failure."]
Triage identifies what you're obligated to do. Whether you do it is a leadership decision, not an ethical analysis decision.
Where the triage surfaces a significant ethical dimension that wasn't being weighed in the response — name it explicitly. The value of this skill in a crisis is not reassurance; it is surfacing the thing that would later be described as "what we should have done."
For complex incidents with significant ongoing consequences, follow triage with a full ethics-council session once the immediate crisis is stabilised.
After delivering this output, use AskUserQuestion to offer the next move:
/s4h-decision-premortem-analysis — Stress-test the crisis response plan/s4h-communication-audience-modeling — Model how affected parties will receive the response/s4h-ethics-empathy-circle — Apply structured empathy to those affected by the crisisnpx claudepluginhub human-avatar/skills-for-humanityRuns a complete ethics report using five ethical frameworks (utilitarian, deontological, virtue, care, justice) on any decision or action. Invoked via 'ethics check' or similar phrases.
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