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Provenance Compression Scheme Fails Against Simple Baseline in Agent Tests
A developer built a test harness to measure how gate decisions degrade when provenance vectors are compressed. Four tracking arms observed the same trajectory, with a naive LLM-based baseline outperforming the author's structural compression scheme on half of gate classes. The results challenge assumptions about lossy provenance compaction for agent chains.
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The finding that a strawman LLM summarizer beats a purpose-built compression scheme suggests the field's intuitions about provenance fidelity may need rethinking.
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