From Agent Traces to Trust: Evidence Tracing and Execution Provenance in LLM Agents
A comprehensive survey examines evidence tracing and execution provenance in LLM agents—mechanisms for tracking how autonomous AI systems arrive at decisions by documenting retrieved evidence, tool interactions, and memory influences. This research addresses critical gaps in verifying, debugging, and auditing agent behavior beyond simple output accuracy, proposing frameworks and taxonomies for process-level accountability in AI systems.