Provenance Audit
Verify data origin and transformations to detect tampering or inaccuracies, ensuring trust and accountability.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add provenance-audit npx -- -y @trustedskills/provenance-audit
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"provenance-audit": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/provenance-audit"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The provenance-audit skill analyzes data or documents to determine their origin and history. It can trace back steps in a process, identify sources of information, and assess the reliability of data based on its lineage. This helps users understand how data was created and modified over time, enabling better decision-making.
When to use it
- Investigating Data Anomalies: When unexpected results arise from a dataset, use this skill to trace back the data's journey and identify potential sources of error or bias.
- Verifying Information Sources: Before relying on critical information, employ provenance audit to confirm its origin and assess the trustworthiness of the source.
- Compliance Audits: For regulatory compliance, track the lifecycle of documents or datasets to demonstrate adherence to data governance policies.
- Debugging AI Pipelines: When an AI model produces unexpected outputs, use this skill to trace back through the data processing pipeline to identify issues in data preparation or feature engineering.
Key capabilities
- Data lineage tracing
- Source identification
- Reliability assessment based on origin
- Process history analysis
Example prompts
- "Trace the provenance of this document and list all modifications."
- "What are the original sources for this dataset?"
- "Assess the reliability of this data point, considering its lineage."
Tips & gotchas
The effectiveness of the audit depends on the availability of metadata or logging related to the data's creation and modification. Without sufficient historical information, the skill’s ability to provide a complete provenance analysis will be limited.
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