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Output Watermarking and Provenance for Agent Actions
Mark every agent-produced artifact with provenance metadata for audit and trust.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2watermarking
- 3provenance
- 4C2PA
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Section 1
The premise
Agent outputs in the wild need provenance so humans can tell what was AI-made.
What AI does well here
- Embed agent ID, run ID, and model version in artifact metadata.
- Use C2PA for images and signed JSON for structured outputs.
- Surface provenance in user-facing UI when relevant.
What AI cannot do
- Prevent removal of metadata by determined actors.
- Survive lossy re-encoding without robust watermarking.
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