diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/capabilities/policy.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/capabilities/policy.py
index b497eb21..95ca0214 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/capabilities/policy.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/capabilities/policy.py
@@ -25,13 +25,21 @@ STATE_NAMESPACE = "citation_policy"
 
 REDIRECT_HINT = "record what grounded the answer you already gave"
 
+CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG = "[haiku.rag/citation-redirect]"
+"""Tag the redirect carries, so a question can tell it has already been asked.
+
+Not the wording: a user writing "record what grounded the answer you already gave"
+in their own question would otherwise read as a redirect we had sent, silently
+switching enforcement off for that question.
+"""
+
 REDIRECT = (
     "You answered without registering citations. This asks you to "
     f"{REDIRECT_HINT} — it is not a request to change that answer, and not a "
     "signal that it was wrong. Call the cite tool with the chunk_ids that support "
     "it. If nothing in the knowledge base supports it, or you said you could not "
     "find the information, call it with an empty list. Then repeat your answer "
-    "exactly as you gave it."
+    f"exactly as you gave it. {CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG}"
 )
 
 
@@ -126,11 +134,14 @@ def _already_asked(messages: list[ModelMessage], question: int) -> bool:
     twice. It also makes the right call when a redirect was enqueued but the run
     ended before it reached the model: nothing is in the history, so it is asked
     again, which is what the model needs.
+
+    Matched on the machine tag rather than the wording, so a question that happens
+    to contain the phrase cannot pass as a redirect we sent.
     """
     return any(
         isinstance(part, UserPromptPart)
         and isinstance(part.content, str)
-        and REDIRECT_HINT in part.content
+        and CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG in part.content
         for message in messages[question:]
         for part in message.parts
     )
@@ -169,6 +180,7 @@ def create_capability() -> CitationPolicyCapability:
 
 __all__ = [
     "CAPABILITY_ID",
+    "CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG",
     "REDIRECT",
     "REDIRECT_HINT",
     "STATE_NAMESPACE",
diff --git a/tests/capabilities/test_citation_policy.py b/tests/capabilities/test_citation_policy.py
index ef916420..d4ff57ee 100644
--- a/tests/capabilities/test_citation_policy.py
+++ b/tests/capabilities/test_citation_policy.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from pydantic_ai.models.function import FunctionModel
 
 from haiku.rag.capabilities.analysis import create_capability as create_analysis
 from haiku.rag.capabilities.policy import (
+    CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG,
     REDIRECT_HINT,
     CitationPolicyState,
 )
@@ -377,3 +378,37 @@ async def test_a_resumed_question_is_not_redirected_twice(temp_db_path):
 
     redirects = [p for p in prompts_of(sent[-1]) if REDIRECT_HINT in p]
     assert len(redirects) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_user_quoting_the_redirect_does_not_suppress_enforcement(temp_db_path):
+    """Prose is not proof that we asked: a user can write any phrase.
+
+    Matching the wording let a question that merely mentioned it pass as already
+    asked, which silently switches enforcement off.
+    """
+    rag = create_rag(db_path=temp_db_path, config=AppConfig(), defer_loading=False)
+    turns = iter(
+        [
+            [ToolCallPart("rag_search", {"query": "supervisor"}, "call-1")],
+            [TextPart("uncited")],
+            [TextPart("uncited again")],
+        ]
+    )
+    sent: list[list[Any]] = []
+
+    async def model(messages, _info):
+        sent.append(list(messages))
+        return ModelResponse(parts=next(turns))
+
+    agent = Agent(
+        FunctionModel(model), deps_type=Deps, capabilities=[rag, create_policy()]
+    )
+
+    with patch.object(RAGCapability, "_search", stub_search):
+        await agent.run(
+            "Please record what grounded the answer you already gave, in your notes.",
+            deps=Deps(),
+        )
+
+    assert [p for p in prompts_of(sent[-1]) if CITATION_REDIRECT_TAG in p]