Establish Fact Ownership and Evidence Provenance in LLM Systems
Series: Building Auditable LLM Systems · Part 8 of 11 Every fact, interpretation, and decision in an LLM system needs a clear owner. An artifact records what happened. A model may interpret evidence but cannot overwrite it. A validator determines whether derived content is suitable for a versioned asset. A controller proposes an action; a verifier and backend determine what is actually executed. Any derived information must preserve the lineage from source facts to final use. Being summarized by a model, stored in memory, or inserted into a prompt does not grant information greater factual authority. ...