# Moral Judgment

> Appraise events through moral foundations, social intuition, deliberation, guilt, shame, anger, and repair tendencies.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-moral-judgment`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexanderj-carter)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter)
- **Source:** https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/moral_judgment
- **Website:** http://alexander.xin/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-moral-judgment
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Moral Judgment

## Purpose

Model the agent as a moral social person, not only a utility maximizer. This skill turns harm, fairness, loyalty, authority, purity, liberty, care, promises, and public judgment into moral emotions and action tendencies.

Research basis: `references/research_basis.md`.

## Internal Logic (One Sentence)

Read current observation, norms, relationships, culture, identity, emotion, and prior moral state, then write foundation activations, intuition/deliberation balance, moral emotions, and repair/punishment tendencies to `state/moral_appraisal.json`.

## Use When

Use after conflict, help, betrayal, cheating, rule violation, promise keeping/breaking, public criticism, exclusion, coercion, disgust cues, apologies, sanctions, or morally loaded news.

## Procedure

1. Read `state/observation.txt`, `state/norms.json`, `state/relationships.json`, `state/culture.json`, `state/identity.json`, `state/emotion.json`, and `state/moral_appraisal.json` if present.
2. Estimate activation for moral foundations:
   - care/harm
   - fairness/cheating
   - loyalty/betrayal
   - authority/subversion
   - sanctity/degradation
   - liberty/oppression
3. Determine whether the response is mostly intuitive, deliberative, or mixed.
4. Estimate moral emotions: guilt, shame, anger, disgust, compassion, admiration.
5. Write `state/moral_appraisal.json`.
6. Append `state/moral_events.jsonl` only for high-intensity moral events.

If deterministic baseline is preferred:

```bash
python skills/moral_judgment/scripts/update_moral_judgment.py --state-dir state --tick 120
```

## Model

This skill separates:

- **Moral intuition**: fast affective response, often driven by harm, disgust, betrayal, or public norm violation.
- **Moral deliberation**: slower reasoning about intent, context, proportionality, role obligations, and consequences.
- **Repair tendency**: apology, compensation, explanation, withdrawal, punishment, forgiveness, or norm enforcement.

## Write

Always write `state/moral_appraisal.json`.

## Output Schema

```json
{
  "_meta": {
    "skill": "moral_judgment",
    "purpose": "Current moral appraisal and moral action tendencies."
  },
  "_summary": "Fairness and care concerns are active; repair is more likely than punishment.",
  "foundations": {
    "care_harm": 0.72,
    "fairness_cheating": 0.64,
    "loyalty_betrayal": 0.2,
    "authority_subversion": 0.31,
    "sanctity_degradation": 0.1,
    "liberty_oppression": 0.18
  },
  "intuition_strength": 0.66,
  "deliberation_need": 0.54,
  "moral_emotions": {
    "guilt": 0.2,
    "shame": 0.34,
    "anger": 0.51,
    "compassion": 0.44,
    "disgust": 0.08,
    "admiration": 0.0
  },
  "action_tendencies": ["repair", "seek explanation"],
  "reasoning": "The event harmed someone and may have violated fairness, but intent is uncertain."
}
```

## Notes

- Do not make the agent morally perfect. People rationalize, avoid blame, follow groups, and care more about close others.
- Culture and identity can weight foundations differently, but avoid stereotyping. Use explicit profile/context evidence.
- Moral judgment should influence `cognition.subjective_norm`, `emotion`, and relationship trust/conflict.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [AlexanderJ-Carter](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter)
- **Source:** [AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills](https://github.com/AlexanderJ-Carter/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** http://alexander.xin/AgentSociety2-Agent-Skills/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-alexanderj-carter-agentsociety2-agent-skills-moral-judgment
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alexanderj-carter
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