Provenance stamp

A versioned record linking a claim, answer, or artifact to the source snapshot, model version, transformation path, and timestamp that produced it.

StoreSteady treats provenance stamp as a reference term because Missing source linkage: Output has no source pointer; auditors cannot verify.

• Missing source linkage changes what a crawler, shopping channel, or AI assistant can safely infer about the merchant surface.
• Without a named category, operators tend to treat provenance stamp as generic AI noise instead of a reproducible finding with evidence and a validation path.

• source URL + version + retrieval timestamp; model name + version; transformation pipeline ID; AI prompt + temperature settings (where relevant); the chain of these from source to surfaced output.

Audit AI/agent outputs and scan results for required provenance fields. Reject outputs missing any required field at write time.

• A claim tagged "AI-generated" with no source, model, or timestamp.
• A scan result with no captured snapshots, so the failure cannot be replayed.

1. Identify the merchant-controlled source that creates the provenance stamp signal.
2. Reconcile visible copy, machine-readable data, policy text, feed state, and checkout behavior where the term applies.
3. Keep the fix high-level in public docs; detailed remediation belongs inside paid scan workflows.

Rerun the same evidence capture used for detection. The finding is validated only when the original provenance stamp signal no longer reproduces and adjacent source surfaces still agree.

• NIST GenAI Profile - provenance and version tracking →
• W3C PROV - provenance metadata model →
• ISO 8601 - timestamp format →

• Post-fix validation →
• Policy-grounded answer →
• Canonical product assertion →

• StoreSteady public methodology →
• NIST GenAI Profile - provenance and version tracking →
• W3C PROV - provenance metadata model →
• ISO 8601 - timestamp format →