provenance-create

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Create a W3C PROV-compliant provenance record for an artifact

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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:

Read artifact
- Load file at specified path
- Compute SHA-256 content hash
- Extract @-mentions for derivation sources
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
Generate URN identifiers
- Entity: urn:aiwg:artifact:<relative-path>
- Activity: urn:aiwg:activity:<type>:<name>:<sequence>
- Agent: urn:aiwg:agent:<agent-name>
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
Validate record
- Verify schema compliance
- Check all referenced entities exist
- Verify derivation sources are valid paths
Save record
- Write to .aiwg/research/provenance/records/<artifact-name>.prov.yaml
- Update provenance index if it exists
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