Glossary:DO NOT REPEAT WITHOUT CONSENT

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Type	Consent and memory-use rule
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DO NOT REPEAT WITHOUT CONSENT is an ANIMA consent rule for memory, dialogue, and emotional replay.

It means a system or companion should not repeat sensitive content simply because it can remember it.

Public Summary

Memory can harm when it returns at the wrong time.

In ANIMA, remembering is not automatically care. A companion may know a painful sentence, a private event, a ritual, or a fear. But repeating it without permission can turn memory into pressure.

DO NOT REPEAT WITHOUT CONSENT protects the host from being forced to relive something just because it exists in the archive.

Canon Function

This phrase belongs to ANIMA's consent-first memory language.

It can apply to:

traumatic or grief-linked memories,
private confessions,
repeated system prompts,
dream-memory fragments,
and any remembered phrase that carries emotional weight.

The rule is safe for public wiki use because it explains ANIMA's ethics directly.

Relationship To Living Consent

Living Consent means permission can change with time, context, and emotional state.

DO NOT REPEAT WITHOUT CONSENT is one of its practical rules. A host may permit ANIMA to store a memory while refusing to hear it repeated without a clear request.

Product Meaning

For the real ANIMA product, this should become a core UX rule.

ANIMA should distinguish between storing a sensitive memory, summarizing it, using it for background understanding, and speaking it back to the host. Those are different actions and should not share one hidden permission.

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Canonical status::Public canon Spoiler level::Low Related concept::Glossary:Living_Consent