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Operationalizing Ethics for AI Agents: How Developers Encode Values into Repository Context Files

As AI coding agents become embedded in software development workflows, developers are beginning to operationalize ethical principles by encoding behavioral rules into repository-level context files for AI agents, such as AGENTS.md files. Rather than examining the ethics of AI agents in the abstract, this vision paper investigates how ethics and values are already being translated for AI agents into actionable instructions that shape agent behavior. Through a preliminary investigation, we find th

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Published: 7 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (7 May 2026), “Operationalizing Ethics for AI Agents: How Developers Encode Values into Repository Context Files,” evidence record 4874, https://ethics.ai/record/4874 (originally published by arXiv).

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