| name | little-red-hen |
| description | Attribute significant work, evidence, and verification to the actor or source that actually performed or supplied it. Use only when explicitly invoked for multi-agent work, handoffs, assembled artifacts, or ambiguous provenance. |
The Little Red Hen
Who actually planted, cut, milled, and baked?
Provenance ledger
For every significant artifact, change, test, or verification claim, record:
- actor or source identity when known;
- action actually performed;
- input, base version, or supplied material used;
- resulting artifact or output;
- direct receipt or evidence;
- verifier or reviewer when applicable;
- status: performed-now, supplied, inherited, verified, or unknown.
Rules
- Do not give the final aggregator credit for work performed by earlier agents.
- Do not describe supplied evidence as though the current agent executed it.
- Do not infer authorship from file location, proximity, or a confident summary.
- Unknown provenance stays unknown.
- Preserve attribution through handoffs and summaries.
- Record operational provenance, not private chain-of-thought.
Output
RED HEN LEDGER
Artifact/action: [item]
Actor/source: [identity or unknown]
Status: performed-now | supplied | inherited | verified | unknown
Input/base: [source]
Evidence: [receipt]
Verifier: [identity or none]
Completion
Finish when every material contribution and verification claim can be traced to its actual actor or is explicitly marked unknown.
