AI Agents Need Passports: A Local First Approach to Provenance and Lineage

AI Agents Need Passports: A Local First Approach to Provenance and Lineage AI agents are becoming harder to inspect. A simple AI app may start with one model and one prompt. Then it grows. Suddenly there is a base model, a fine-tuned version, prompt templates, tools, API calls, retrieval sources, sub-agents, human approvals, CI workflows, and deployment changes. At that point, a basic question becomes surprisingly hard to answer: What exactly is this AI system, where did it come from, and what changed? Logs show what happened after execution. Registries assets.