Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs — Daniel Chalef, Zep AI
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → memory systems are moving into regulated domains, and this is a concrete design for the audit trail and deletion semantics that requirement forces.
Key quotes
“Synthesis often destroys the paper trail of how these outputs were originated.”
Daniel Chalef
“So provenence in a context store containing facts is a knowledge graph.”
Daniel Chalef
“Lineage needs to be built in to the data structure, engineered into the data structure, which is a graph, not logged afterwards.”
Daniel Chalef
“A fact is only deleted if no remaining episodes support it.”
Daniel Chalef
“markdown suffers from provenence. File-based um file-based uh memory starts to break down with provenence.”
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