Provenance Create

Provenance Create Command

Create a provenance record for a new or existing artifact, establishing its Entity-Activity-Agent chain.

Instructions

When invoked, create provenance record:

1. Read artifact

   • Load file at specified path
   • Compute SHA-256 content hash
   • Extract @-mentions for derivation sources

2. Determine metadata

   • Activity type: generation (new) or modification (existing)
   • Agent: from --agent flag or infer from context
   • Derivation sources: from @-mentions or --derived-from flags

3. Generate URN identifiers

   • Entity: urn:aiwg:artifact:<relative-path>
   • Activity: urn:aiwg:activity:<type>:<name>:<sequence>
   • Agent: urn:aiwg:agent:<agent-name>

4. Create provenance record

   • Generate YAML conforming to @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/schemas/provenance/prov-record.yaml
   • Include entity, activity, agent, and relationships
   • Include timestamps and content hash

5. Validate record

   • Verify schema compliance
   • Check all referenced entities exist
   • Verify derivation sources are valid paths

6. Save record

   • Write to .aiwg/research/provenance/records/<artifact-name>.prov.yaml
   • Update provenance index if it exists

7. Report

   • Display created record summary
   • Show derivation chain

Arguments

• [artifact-path] - Path to artifact (required)
• --derived-from [paths...] - Explicit derivation sources
• --activity [type] - Activity type: generation, modification, refactoring, testing, review, derivation (default: generation)
• --agent [name] - Agent that created the artifact (default: inferred)
• --output [path] - Custom output path for provenance record
• --no-validate - Skip schema validation

References

• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/agents/provenance-manager.md - Provenance Manager agent
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/schemas/provenance/prov-record.yaml - PROV record schema
• @.aiwg/research/provenance/docs/provenance-guide.md - Provenance guide
• @$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/sdlc-complete/rules/provenance-tracking.md - Provenance tracking rules

Storage Routing (#934, #968)

This skill's persistence flows through resolveStorage('provenance'). On the default fs backend provenance records live at .aiwg/provenance/. To redirect into Obsidian, Logseq, Fortemi, or another backend, configure roots.provenance or backends.provenance in .aiwg/storage.config (#934).

aiwg provenance path                                # resolved root
aiwg provenance list --prefix activities/
aiwg provenance get activities/2026-04-28-deploy.json
echo '{"@context":"...","activity":"..."}' | aiwg provenance put activities/x.json