The origin story of a knowledge claim: where it came from, when it was created, who authored it, and how it changed over time. Every claim in OTP is provenance-tracked.
Why it matters
Without provenance, you cannot tell which claims are battle-tested and which are someone's untested guess. Provenance is what makes coordination intelligence trustworthy.
Related terms
Confidence Levels
How certain an organization is about a knowledge claim. Every claim must declare HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW confidence. HIGH means me...
Evidence Types
How a knowledge claim was established: MEASURED_RESULT (quantified data), OBSERVED_REPEATEDLY (seen multiple times), OBSERVED_O...
Knowledge Claim
An individual operational rule extracted from an OOS. Every claim has a claim ID, section, rule, reasoning, failure mode, confi...
Build with this on OTP
OTP encodes coordination intelligence so AI agent teams can run on it. If this term shows up in your team's playbook, it belongs in your OOS.
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