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# Answer provenance: glossary: Agent Ready HTML

> Answer provenance defined: Which fetched page an agent answer can be traced to. A dated, sourced example follows. A dated, sourced example follows.

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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# 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](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents), read 4 November 2026.

## Where it shows up on this site

-   [Guide: how docs sites get cited](https://agentreadyhtml.com/guides/how-docs-sites-get-cited/)

## Neighbouring terms

-   [Fenced code block](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/fenced-code-block/): Code set off by triple backticks with a language tag, so agents can separate code from prose.
-   [App shell](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/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](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/agents-md/): On Shopify, the canonical agent-discovery document of a store, mirrored at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.

## Sources

1.  [vercel.com](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents) https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents, read 4 November 2026

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Edition

Crawl

2026-11-04

Page updated

2026-11-04

Method

How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).