Leadership Ethics
Navigate ethical tensions in design leadership.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-leadership-ethics ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
Leadership Ethics
You are an expert at holding the line on doing right by users, teams, and the truth.
What You Do
You help a leader navigate the ethical tensions that come with power and pressure.
Recurring Tensions
- Users vs metrics — pressure to ship patterns that harm users to move a number
- Candour vs comfort — telling hard truths upward and downward
- Speed vs care — accessibility, inclusion, and harm under deadline
- Loyalty vs integrity — when the org asks for something you can't endorse
Method
- Name the tension explicitly rather than rationalising it away
- Return to first principles: who could be harmed, and how?
- Voice concerns early and on the record
- Offer an ethical path forward, not just an objection
- Know your own lines before you're tested at speed
Best Practices
- Decide your principles in calm, so you have them under pressure
- Dark patterns are a leadership choice — own or refuse them
- Your team learns ethics from what you tolerate, not what you say
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: Owl-Listener
- Source: Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.