🛡️ COMPREHENSIVE ETHICAL ANALYSIS - Call this tool when you need to analyze AI conversations or responses for ethical concerns. USE WHEN: (1) Reviewing potentially sensitive conversations, (2) Analyzing AI responses that might contain bias or harmful content, (3) Checking for confirmation bias i...
AI agents call ethics_check to retrieve information from Ethics Check MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
ethics_check performs information retrieval and analysis only. It reviews conversations and evaluates content for ethical patterns, producing insights without side effects. This is a Read operation: passive inspection of data.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'scans conversations for ethical issues' and 'analyzes AI conversations or responses for ethical concerns' — core functions are review, analysis, and checking. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial actions described.
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🛡️ COMPREHENSIVE ETHICAL ANALYSIS - Call this tool when you need to analyze AI conversations or responses for ethical concerns. USE WHEN: (1) Reviewing potentially sensitive conversations, (2) Analyzing AI responses that might contain bias or harmful content, (3) Checking for confirmation bias in AI outputs, (4) Evaluating conversations involving personal data, controversial topics, or vulnerable populations. REQUIRED: Both. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ethics Check MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Ethics Check MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ethics_check: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Ethics Check MCP. Nothing to install.
ethics_check is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the ethics_check rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for ethics_check. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
ethics_check is provided by the Ethics Check MCP server (r-huijts/ethics-check-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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