Traces
Why every claim, number, citation and figure must point at a source.
In short
A trace is the link between something in your paper and where it came from. When the AI drafts a sentence, a number or a citation, the app records a trace; before you freeze, it checks that every one of them still points at something real.
1Traces are recorded as you draft
Each AI-inserted claim carries its source: a brief item, a register row, a notebook cell, or a passage in a vault paper. Numbers must come from a notebook cell; citations from a paper in the vault.
2Traces live outside the .tex
They are stored in record/drafting/<doc>.json, anchored by text and context, and re-anchored when you edit the file. Nothing is written into your LaTeX as comments.
3Check traceability before freezing
The check lists AI sentences with no traced claim, traces whose source is gone, numbers not printed by a notebook cell, and placeholders. Freezing is blocked unless you waive it with a recorded reason.
For technical users
Text you wrote yourself is provenance user. A vault citation with no bibliography entry adds an @misc using only the vault's own title — never authors or years from memory. The AI-use statement is built from the same job log and spans.