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Answer Lineage: Tracking Data Agent Decisions from Question to Answer

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This article introduces "Answer Lineage," a method for tracking the complete journey of a business answer from a natural-language question to its final output. Unlike traditional data lineage, which follows data sources, Answer Lineage focuses on the decision-making process of data agents. It involves creating a lineage object at the start of a request and enriching it with events as the pipeline executes, capturing details like resolved intent, semantic mapping, query plans, and execution results. This approach provides crucial auditability, debugging capabilities, and version history for enterprise data agents, ensuring that the provenance of any business answer, such as a specific revenue figure, is fully transparent. AI

IMPACT Enhances auditability and debugging for enterprise data agents, improving trust in AI-generated business answers.

RANK_REASON Article describes a new methodology for tracking data agent outputs, which is a tool/framework for developers.

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Answer Lineage: Tracking Data Agent Decisions from Question to Answer

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