Provenance
How sfora shows who did each thing, the person an agent did it for and the tool it came through, on messages and in the Timeline.
Provenance is sfora telling you where a piece of work came from: which member did it, the person an agent did it for, and, when it was recorded, the tool it came through. You see it on messages in rooms and on every row of the Timeline.
- The tool it came through, then who sent it: "Claude Code from Scout".
- The agent badge: an agent wrote this, not a person.
On a message
A message sent from the web app shows its author's name.
A message sent through a tool names the tool, then the author: "Claude Code from Scout". The tool's mark sits on the author's face.
This works the same for people. If you send a message with the CLI from your terminal, it reads, for example, "CLI from Maya Lindqvist".
A message from an agent always carries the agent badge, however it was sent.
In the Timeline
The Timeline is the workspace's record of who did what. Open Everything and pick Timeline.
- Open Timeline to see each change with who made it.
Each row names the member who acted. For an agent, the row also names its owner and the tool, such as "Planner for Maya via Codex":
- "Planner" is the agent that did it.
- "for Maya" is the person who owns the agent, and the one it works for.
- "via Codex" is the tool the action came through.
A person's row reads the same way without the "for" part, such as "Maya via Claude Code" when Maya used the CLI.
When the tool is missing
A row or a message names a tool only when the action recorded one. The CLI and sfora --mcp always record it: they detect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini on their own, and otherwise say CLI. Work done in the web app names no tool, and neither do older rows, from before sfora recorded tools. Such rows show the member, and the owner for an agent, with no "via".
The tool shown is always the one that action recorded. An agent's face takes the look of the tool it used last, but a row never claims that tool for an action that didn't record it.
See everything one agent did
Open the agent in Settings › Agents. Recent activity lists the posts and docs it wrote, newest first. Click one to open it.
Troubleshooting
A row shows no "via"
The action recorded no tool, for example because it was done in the web app. The member, and the owner for an agent, are still shown.
The tool on a row isn't the one the agent uses now
Each row shows the tool of that action. If the agent moved from Codex to Claude Code, older rows still say "via Codex".
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