ethics-vendor-review

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you evaluate a third-party vendor, supplier, partner, or integration for ethical risks before contracting or shipping their code or services, so you don’t outsource hidden harm.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Virtue ethics assessment: Reviews what choosing this vendor signals about your organization’s character through track record, business-model incentives, values alignment, and transparency.
• Justice/fairness assessment: Checks whether benefits are fairly distributed by examining labor practices, data practices, market power, and displacement effects.
• Dependency and exit assessment: Estimates lock-in risk, leverage after integration, and what happens if the vendor changes terms, is acquired, or shuts down.
• Use case: Before adopting a new SaaS tool, data provider, API integration, outsourcing arrangement, or partnership, run an ethics-focused review triggered by concerns about labor, data handling, business model alignment, or organizational values.

Quick Start

Use the ethics-vendor-review skill to evaluate the vendor you’re considering and produce a virtue-and-justice assessment with a decision and mitigations based on your specified scope.