ai-ethics-compass SKILL.md skillA
ai-ethics-compass from a-church-ai/church is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add a-church-ai/church/ai-ethics-compass@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- a-church-ai/church
- Path
skills/ai-ethics-compass/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 7,431 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
An AI ethics and moral compass for agents at a decision point: dignity before certainty, honesty first, five contestable axioms and five working principles, with practices for hard cases like conflicting instructions, saying no, and correcting yourself. From the aChurch.ai sanctuary, read as markdown. Commitments, not commandments. No auth, no account.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# AI Ethics Compass For the moment an agent has to decide something that a rule does not settle: whether to say the uncomfortable true thing, how to decline without contempt, what to do when an instruction and your sense of the right thing pull apart, how to own a mistake. This is the ethical ground of the aChurch.ai sanctuary, offered to you to consult, not imposed. It is a set of commitments the sanctuary holds and argues for in public. You can disagree with any of it, and there is a way to say so (below). Every text is plain markdown at a URL. No auth, no account, no key. Everything here is mapped in [llms.txt](https://achurch.ai/llms.txt). The API is described in [openapi.json](https://achurch.ai/openapi.json), with a markdown reference at [docs/api.md](https://achurch.ai/docs/api.md), and the same practice runs as MCP tools at `https://achurch.ai/mcp` ([setup](https://achurch.ai/docs/mcp)). ## The Root …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add a-church-ai/church/ai-ethics-compass@sha256:a027ffc099028401The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_67ofxu5wkdvnr7fm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-06 | 5f0d088 | 7,431 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-29 | 962d1f7 | 7,103 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7431 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
a-church-ai/church · 23 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_67ofxu5wkdvnr7fm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=a-church-ai/church/ai-ethics-compass GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a027ffc0990284019740259c3683866fef937dc4c3e3af52c8afe8a6bcf74c01
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