All solutions Provenance

Know which delivered changes were actually checked

Months later the question is not what the agent produced. It is which of it was checked, by what, and how thoroughly. A request count is not a record.

A pass flag is a number, not an answer

A pass flag says a suite went green. It does not say how much of the required behaviour that suite exercised. Two changes with identical flags can carry very different evidence.

That gap shows up when someone has to decide which changes to trust and has nothing to sort them by.

Evidence is graded, and provenance is recorded separately

An ordered scale

What each candidate demonstrated is recorded from none through syntax and runtime to partial and complete behavioral evidence.

Coverage kept apart

How much of the required behaviour was exercised is recorded separately from the grade.

Written content marked

Content that did not earn authorization carries no verification metadata, so it is never reported as checked.

What runs between the request and the answer

01

Proposal

The change your agent proposes enters the write path as candidate zero, the baseline.

02

Alternatives

Several candidates are generated instead of the first answer being accepted.

03

Execution

Each runs in an isolated sandbox against the project's available checks and the runtime's own oracles.

04

Guarded write

An alternative must earn authorization to replace the baseline. What did not earn it carries no verification metadata.

Failures return to step 02 as repair input rather than starting over

Proposal, alternatives, execution, guarded write, with repair feeding back.

Where the record is the thing being bought

Review triage

The work
Deciding where reading effort should go.
What repeats
Every change gets the same attention because nothing distinguishes them in advance.
What changes
Effort concentrates where evidence is weak or absent, because evidence strength is recorded.

After the fact questions

The work
Answering what was checked, months later.
What repeats
A request count survives. What was executed against the answer does not.
What changes
A per-stage record of what ran, how long it took, and what it produced, written locally.

Mixed provenance in one codebase

The work
Living with verified and unverified change side by side.
What repeats
Once they are indistinguishable, the safe assumption is that none of it was checked.
What changes
Delivered content is separable into what earned execution evidence and what did not.

Talk through your deployment constraints

The repository and the docs need no form. This one scopes a deployment.