--- title: "Provenance | Agent Memory | SurrealDB" description: "Answers you can prove. Agent Memory stores provenance on every fact and returns the exact sources behind each response." url: https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/provenance --- PROVENANCE # Answers you can prove For agents that touch real decisions, 'the model said so' isn't enough. Agent Memory stores provenance as data on every fact, keeps a queryable trace of how each memory formed, and returns the exact sources behind every answer - so recall you can trust means recall you can defend. [Join the waitlist](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/get-started) [Technical deep-dive](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) 1. ![Babcock](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/babcock.lo4rnVg1.svg) 2. ![ING](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/ing.X3I6S3_V.svg) 3. ![British Airways](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/british-airways.KEsZiwV-.svg) 4. ![Nvidia](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/nvidia.DaIEuMil.svg) 5. ![Apple](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/apple.D5pq4flY.svg) 6. ![SpaceX](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/spacex.CQJEk-IL.svg) 7. ![Samsung](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/samsung.CH-vQgnb.svg) 8. ![adidas](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/adidas.DdTC5qhk.svg) 9. ![Tencent](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/tencent.paQmLxyy.svg) 10. ![Alibaba](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/alibaba.B16idgfM.svg) 11. ![PolyAI](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/poly-ai.c3w_fAg6.svg) 12. ![Later](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/later.Ds736jFO.svg) 13. ![Verizon](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/verizon.BI7CajdX.svg) 14. ![Liberty Mutual](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/liberty-mutual.B7qOU1pd.svg) 15. ![Walmart](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/walmart.BjDg_Sr8.svg) 16. ![Carrier](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/carrier.D21gC6NX.svg) 17. ![Saks Fifth Avenue](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/saks-fifth-avenue.COIDpLSb.svg) 18. ![San Francisco Compute Company](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/sfcc.B7jlImq4.svg) 19. ![Shield AI](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/shield-ai.pINZ0KJr.svg) 20. ![Wix](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/wix.DvHhmoBi.svg) 01 |PROVABLE ANSWERS ## Every answer points back to its source Provenance isn't a bolt-on log. It's a stored field on every row and a queryable trace graph, so any answer can be walked back to the exact messages and records it came from - by the agent, or by an auditor - without a separate logging pipeline to reconcile. ## Built to be defended Provenance, audit, and access control are properties of the store itself - not application code you have to remember to write. ### [Provenance on every row](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) Where a fact came from is a stored field, not metadata bolted on afterwards. Learn more ### [Queryable trace graph](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) How a memory formed is itself a graph you can traverse and audit. Learn more ### [Cited answers](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/recall) Recall returns the exact records behind each result, ready to show a stakeholder. Learn more ### [Nothing overwritten](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/temporal) Superseded facts are kept, so you can always see what changed and when. Learn more ### [Deny by default](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) Per-verb grants govern who can read and write which memories. Learn more ### [Defensible by design](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) When an answer reaches a decision-maker, the trail behind it is already there. Learn more 02 |ONE SUBSTRATE ## Trust is a storage property, not a promise Middleware bolts provenance on with external logging and hopes the two stay in sync. Agent Memory makes provenance part of every write, in the same ACID transaction as the fact - so the trail can never drift from the data. ### In the same transaction A fact and its provenance commit together, so there's no window where one exists without the other. ### Queryable, not archived The trace is live graph data you can ask questions of, not a log you grep after the fact. ### Audit without extra infrastructure The audit trail is the store itself, so there's no separate logging pipeline to run, secure, and reconcile. ## Keep exploring ### [Recall](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/recall) How sources come back with every answer. Explore ### [Temporal memory](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/temporal) How the past is kept, not overwritten. Explore ### [Technical deep-dive](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory/deep-dive) Provenance and audit in full. 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