Answer provenance
In short
Which fetched page an agent answer can be traced to. Example: Of 844 grounded answers in the Vercel and Ora study, 394 traced to a docs page. Related terms: Fenced code block, App shell, agents.md. Fenced code block: Code set off by triple backticks with a language tag, so agents can separate code from prose.
Source of the example
The example in the summary above is from vercel.com, read 4 November 2026.
Where it shows up on this site
Neighbouring terms
- Fenced code block: Code set off by triple backticks with a language tag, so agents can separate code from prose.
- App shell: A near-empty HTML document whose content is injected by JavaScript after load, typically a single div with id root or app.
- agents.md: On Shopify, the canonical agent-discovery document of a store, mirrored at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.
Sources
- vercel.com https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents, read 4 November 2026
Last reviewed 4 November 2026