Sources and provenance

Every finding keeps a record of where it came from, attached at the moment it was created and carried with it from then on.

What gets attached

  • The source URL or document, and the passage the claim came from.
  • The date the finding was made — sources change.
  • The model and query that produced it.

Why it travels

Provenance follows the block. Use a finding in a generation and the resulting draft can still show what informed it. This is what makes work checkable months later, by you or by anyone reviewing it.

A claim you cannot trace is a claim you will eventually have to re-establish. Provenance is cheaper than doing the research twice.

Checking a finding

Open any block to see its sources and follow them out. If a source has moved or changed since the finding was made, the recorded date tells you how much to trust it.

Related

Web search Where findings come from. Importing PDFs Provenance for documents. Core concepts The vocabulary. Text generation Citing in output.