Direct answer
Provenance Witnessing, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. Entities, activities, agents, generation, use, association, attribution, and role-qualified responsibility. Digest-bound inputs, outputs, environment, seeds, adapters, dossier/claim bindings, explicit assurance limits, and offline verification. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Definition
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Applied scope: Entities, activities, agents, generation, use, association, attribution, and role-qualified responsibility. Digest-bound inputs, outputs, environment, seeds, adapters, dossier/claim bindings, explicit assurance limits, and offline verification.
Definition and operating context
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This property may publish bounded explanations, operational guides, commercial entry points. It must not publish research-source duplication or unreleased evidence claims.
Evidence and exact locators
PROV Model Primer — §2.3 generation and usage; §2.4 agents and responsibility; §2.5 roles. Establishes: Entities, activities, agents, generation, use, association, attribution, and role-qualified responsibility.
Maha computational provenance witness — build_receipt; verify_receipt; assurance and bindings fields. Establishes: Digest-bound inputs, outputs, environment, seeds, adapters, dossier/claim bindings, explicit assurance limits, and offline verification.
What the evidence does not establish
PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not authenticate an actor, observe execution, or establish the truth of an underlying claim.
The receipt observes declared execution metadata; it does not independently reproduce the run, certify scientific validity, prove environment completeness, or establish production use.
This route must not claim research-source duplication.
This route must not claim unreleased evidence claims.
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Questions this page can answer
What does Provenance Witnessing mean in this bounded context?
Provenance Witnessing, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. Entities, activities, agents, generation, use, association, attribution, and role-qualified responsibility. Digest-bound inputs, outputs, environment, seeds, adapters, dossier/claim bindings, explicit assurance limits, and offline verification. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this definition answer?
PROV Model Primer (Working Group Note, 30 April 2013), at §2.3 generation and usage; §2.4 agents and responsibility; §2.5 roles, supports entities, activities, agents, generation, use, association, attribution, and role-qualified responsibility. Maha computational provenance witness (repository source inspected 2026-09-06), at build_receipt; verify_receipt; assurance and bindings fields, supports digest-bound inputs, outputs, environment, seeds, adapters, dossier/claim bindings, explicit assurance limits, and offline verification.
What does the evidence not establish?
PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not authenticate an actor, observe execution, or establish the truth of an underlying claim. The receipt observes declared execution metadata; it does not independently reproduce the run, certify scientific validity, prove environment completeness, or establish production use. Property boundary: This route may apply authority; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local maha-strategies definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
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