LOG: Local-First Provenance Protocol

I. Purpose

Log standardizes how an agent emits structured provenance records for important workflow events. It does not perform persistence, encryption, approval handling, or immutability enforcement by itself. Those controls belong to the host environment.

Use this skill when a workflow needs:

• audit-ready activity records
• debugging traces for failures or retries
• source-aware decision summaries
• host-controlled approval gates for high-impact actions

Do not use this skill to:

• record hidden chain-of-thought
• store secrets, credentials, or tokens
• dump raw private documents, attachments, or long transcripts
• claim storage guarantees the host has not implemented