provenance

Definition

A trail showing where each piece of information came from.

Metadata describing the origin of a claim or artifact; in evidence-carrying agent and ScientistOne architectures, explicit tags linking statements to source documents, log lines, or code regions.

Also called: provenance link, provenance links

Mentioned in 7 episodes

1. 089
   When AI-Written Papers Read Well But the Evidence Underneath Is Broken
2. 064
   When Agent Memory Stops Being a Database and Starts Being a Skill
3. 062
   Treating Hallucinations as Exploits: A Gate-Based Architecture for Agent Safety
4. 039
   When Smarter Agents Get Fooled by Three Extra Nodes in a Database
5. 030
   Why Your AI Agent Won't Stop Working — and Each Model Falls for a Different Trap
6. 029
   Why Forty-Eight Percent on FrontierMath Isn't the Real Story in DeepMind's New Math Paper
7. 020
   The Compliance Gap: Why AI Says Yes and Does No