# Leadership Ethics

> Navigate ethical tensions in design leadership.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-leadership-ethics`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/leadership-craft/skills/leadership-ethics

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-leadership-ethics
```

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

## 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
1. Name the tension explicitly rather than rationalising it away
2. Return to first principles: who could be harmed, and how?
3. Voice concerns early and on the record
4. Offer an ethical path forward, not just an objection
5. 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](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

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-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-leadership-ethics
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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