PDF Provenance

Track source provenance (pdf-provenance)

Track source provenance

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Every extracted/derived item keeps where it came from for trustworthy Q&A.

Operations

• source path + content fingerprint
• page/section/chunk/object attribution
• extraction method + confidence
• document_id anchors

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.provenance:Provenance / anchor

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: content fingerprinting
• Fallback: —

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

derived items carry source

Related skills

pdf-qa, pdf-search, pdf-document-state, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Cite the page for every answer you give me."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.