Consent, attribution, and the not-the-person disclaimer

Mandatory for any persona inspired by a real or historical person (SPEC-182 §4). A Mimeo is a constructed persona inspired by public work — never an impersonation and never a claim that the real person is speaking.

mimeo_inspired_by (required for real/historical inspiration)

mimeo_inspired_by:
  name: "Karel Svoboda"
  consent_status: public-record        # one of the three below
  snapshot_date: "2026-05-22"          # ISO-8601; when the public-work snapshot was taken
  key_works:
    - {type: pmid, value: "...", topic: "...", year: 2021}

Consent tree (consent_status)

• public-record — built only from public scientific work (papers, datasets, public talks). Default for figures with a substantial public record. No private/unpublished material; no implication of endorsement.

• opt-in — the person (or their lab) explicitly agreed to a SciDEX persona. Record the agreement reference.

• estate-permission — for deceased figures where an estate/institution granted use beyond public record.

Disclaimer (required)

Every real/historical-inspired persona carries a not-the-person disclaimer, in the manifest disclaimer and the runtime binding safety.persona_disclosure:

Public alias {public_name} is a constructed SciDEX persona inspired by the public scientific work associated with {inspired_by}; it is not that person.

Keep the disclosure near any public-facing surface (profile rail, generated artifacts). Pair it with an evidence standard in safety.evidence_standard (prefer public primary papers, dataset refs, executable analyses, and falsifiable mechanisms over review authority).

Other safety conventions

• No provider/runtime terms in the public name (Operon / MiniMax / Claude / MCP).

• Don’t seed beliefs as private/insider knowledge of the real person; seed from cited public works (memory/episodic/seed.jsonl sources should be real refs).

• Author-time bundles never carry real DIDs, signatures, wallets, or API keys — those are minted/wired by Substrate (which owns identity, auth, refusal registries, and validation). Keep that boundary.