Information Provenance & Claim-Source Mappings

Source attribution is frequently lost during multi-agent synthesis pipelines when findings are compressed without preserving claim-source mappings.

The Problem

A web search agent finds data from 5 sources. A document analysis agent extracts findings. A synthesis agent combines everything into a report. By the final report, claims appear without sources because:

Solution: Structured Claim-Source Mappings

Require subagents to output structured mappings:

The synthesis agent must preserve and merge these mappings when combining findings.

Report Structure

Structure final reports to distinguish:

Content-Appropriate Rendering

Render different content types appropriately in synthesis outputs:

Don't convert everything to a uniform format -- it loses the natural structure of different content types.