ethical-monetization-patterns SKILL.md skillA
ethical-monetization-patterns from hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development/ethical-monetization-patterns@git:20260930.4aecd99Pins git:20260930.4aecd99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development
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plugins/monetization-ethics/skills/ethical-monetization-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260930.4aecd99, committed Sep 30, 2026
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- 72
- License
- MIT
Ethical monetization patterns: a dark pattern audit checklist, a cosmetics-only store, battle pass design, a Godot and GodotSteam IAP purchase flow, a voluntary spending cap, and an explicit list of banned patterns. Use when building a store or reviewing monetization for exploitative design.
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
# Ethical Monetization Patterns
## Dark Pattern Audit Checklist
```
MONETIZATION ETHICS AUDIT
==========================
SECTION 1: Pay-to-Win Assessment
[ ] All spending provides cosmetic/convenience only, no gameplay power
[ ] No stat boosts, ability unlocks, or damage increases tied to spending
[ ] PvP balance unaffected by any purchasable item
[ ] Free players can compete with paying players in all core game modes
SECTION 2: Transparency
[ ] Real currency prices shown prominently (no hiding behind premium currency only)
[ ] Premium currency amounts shown in real money equivalent during purchase flow
[ ] No orphaned premium currency designs (bundles divisible cleanly by item prices)
[ ] "What you get" fully described before payment, no mystery boxes unlabeled
SECTION 3: Psychological Manipulation
[ ] No countdown timers on non-scarce digital goods
[ ] No "only N left" false scarcity on infinitely reproducible items
[ ] No social pressure mechanics ("your friends bought this")
[ ] No progress loss threats to prevent churn
[ ] Loot boxes: are contents and probabilities disclosed? (required in Belgium, Netherlands, China)
SECTION 4: Children's Protections
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development/ethical-monetization-patterns@sha256:c0ad07fe8e23b634The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.4aecd99, 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.
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development · 72 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-04 · branch main
API
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