# Version Provenance

> Specializing Governance Evolution, detect whether the merge changed state, and only on real change bump the version, timestamp it, and append a modification record — leaving a no-op untouched.

Record: `algorithms:version-provenance`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-version-provenance
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/version-provenance/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Idempotent Merge](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/idempotent-merge.md) and before [Deterministic Merge Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/deterministic-merge-core.md).

## Domain

- [Living profile](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/living-profile.md)

## Stage

- [commit](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/commit.md)

## Axis

- [representation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-representation.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composes

- [Architecture Evolution Governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/architecture-evolution-governance.md)

## Composed by

- [Living Profile Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/living-profile-kernel.md)
- [<Living Accumulation Concern>](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/living-accumulation-concern.md)
- [Versioned Turn Provenance](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/versioned-turn-provenance.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Living Profile Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/living-profile-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Information Theory](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-information-theory.md)

## Force

- [Architecture evolution](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/architecture-evolution.md)
- [Security governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/security-governance.md)

## Linked from

- [Architecture relationships](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-arch-relationships.md)
- [Living profile](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-living-profile.md)
- [Mode-driven response schema](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-mode-driven-response-schema.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)