provenance

provenance is a plugin for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation checker that finds markdown passages repeating material from outside sources without clear attribution. It can turn those passages into links, citations, or dated records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit tracked markdown, confirm external sources, detect changes in source wording, and apply reviewed attribution fixes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent copied or outdated documentation from being presented as original work. It also makes the source and freshness of the information easier to verify.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to audit tracked markdown, confirm external sources, detect changes in source wording, and apply reviewed attribution fixes.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
/plugin install provenance
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for provenance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for provenance

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/provenance.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

provenance scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/provenance/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "provenance",
  "version": "0.5.11",
  "description": "Finds prose in tracked markdown that restates content an external source owns (vendor docs, blogs, articles) without adequate attribution, confirms the source, and refactors the copy into a pointer, a citation, or a dated stamped record. Documentation provenance, not software supply chain. Nomination and judgment are LLM work; the scripts do only reasoning-free work (corpus scoping, breadcrumb extraction, stamp expiry, fingerprint compare of two concrete texts). Read-only audit by default; explicit fix and sweep actions apply dispositions behind a semantic-diff guard and live pointer verification. Findings conform to the detector-findings convention.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Melodic Software",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "provenance",
    "citation",
    "attribution",
    "copied-content",
    "upstream-drift",
    "documentation",
    "detector",
    "prose",
    "audit",
    "skill"
  ]
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed 7afe9564ba33
  2. 1mo ago Changed 450303413f35
  3. 1mo ago Changed ef85c157af48
  4. 1mo ago Changed 14c736752e42
  5. 1mo ago Changed d766a332e4c5
  6. 1mo ago Changed 8906a0376c66
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines scan A 03e2878c61b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

provenance is a plugin published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.