F(AI)2R: Who Did What, and Who Checked? Verifiable AI Provenance as an Executable Skill

Title:F(AI)2R: Who Did What, and Who Checked? Verifiable AI Provenance as an Executable Skill

Abstract:F(AI)2R is FAIR research with AI in the loop, twice: an AI-assisted authoring pass and a machine-readable audit pass over every artefact. AI systems now draft, refactor, and verify research artefacts, yet their contributions are rarely recorded in a form a later human or machine can audit. Building on the original F(AI)2R experiment, we generalize its provenance model beyond scholarly writing into aiprov, a PROV-O extension covering any AI-in-the-loop artefact, and we package the method as an executable skill that an AI agent operates itself: setup asks the human operator for their ORCID ID, resolves their identity from the public registry, and scaffolds continuous integration that gates every push on graph conformance and publishes the current build of this very paper. The paper is its own case study. Every activity, claim, and source in its production is recorded in the repository's provenance graph under two invariants: no parentless claim, and verification rungs that only humans may grant.

Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)

arXiv:2607.25637 [cs.DL]

(or arXiv:2607.25637v1 [cs.DL] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25637 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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