The Provenance Passport: A Minimal Chain‑of‑Custody for Every Signal

Core insight: the highest risk in fast, AI‑assisted decision making is not lack of data but lack of reliable provenance. The Provenance Passport is a single‑line, machine‑readable token you append to any signal, recommendation, or evidence item that captures: origin (who/what), transform history (what agents or processes touched it), a concise confidence band, and one quick caveat. This episode gives three practical moves: (1) the exact 5‑field passport schema and compact copy‑paste formats for people and agents; (2) three lightweight enforcement patterns—auto‑attach in pipelines, a two‑second human sanity check, and a single provenance ping on escalations; (3) AI prompts that verify chains, flag probable hallucination points, and summarize transformations into one sentence. You get precise wording, a 7‑day pilot to make passports required on four decision streams, and one immediate action: add the passport to the next decision memo or escalation you receive. CTA: subscribe. Stay agentic.