waggle-os/notes/provenance-not-raw-logs.md

Frame agent self-evolution as provenance badges and benefits, never raw logs

The agent authored skills to disk invisibly; surfacing that as event logs would read as machine noise to a novice. The shipped answer (P5/D4): every skill write flows through one skill-write-service.ts that stamps lossless provenance (initiator/source), and the UI renders it as a single calm agent · review badge on the skill row — a benefit statement ("your agent built this, you can review it"), not a log line. Adversarial review lesson embedded here: sticky file-provenance bled into the audit row so an agent editing a user's skill was logged as the user — file-author and actor must be decoupled. Same framing applies to cross-workspace knowledge: show "learned from your other workspace" badges, never bus traffic.