LEN-0260
Provenance Trace Lens
Attaches stable lineage to structural regions by mapping origin, reference history, and transformation path.
Primary Pattern Matches
No primary pattern matches.
Secondary Pattern Matches
Silent Mutation
A structural condition where a change occurs without a corresponding declared update, authority update, or version change.
Lens Application
As a secondary lens, the Provenance Trace Lens helps inspect Silent Mutation indirectly by exposing whether a structural region’s origin, reference path, or transformation trail no longer aligns with its declared version, authority record, or update history.
Inspect For
- Lineage gaps around changed structural regions
- Reference history inconsistent with current structure
- Transformation steps without declared update markers
- Version or authority records unchanged despite altered ancestry
Avoid
Treat provenance mismatch as a supporting inspection signal, not as confirmation that Silent Mutation is present.
Related Issues
Actual Policy Differs From Declared Policy
The policy the AI or workflow actually follows differs from the policy that is documented, declared, displayed, or expected.
Context Changes After Restore
Restoring, reopening, resuming, or reloading a task changes the context that the AI uses to continue the work.
Output Changed Without Declared Change
Output shape, content, format, fields, or behavior changes without a declared change to the prompt, schema, model, workflow, or governing rule.
Prompt Behavior Changed Without Version Change
A prompt begins producing different behavior even though no prompt version, model version, workflow version, or declared dependency change is recorded.
Retry Makes the Problem Worse
A retry, repair attempt, regeneration, or follow-up instruction increases the error, expands the failure, or creates additional breakage instead of narrowing the problem.
Stale Context Affects Output
Old context, prior instructions, outdated references, or earlier task state continue to affect output after they should no longer apply.