<aside> 🔗 This page answers the auditor question: 'Why does this line of code exist? Who decided it? Which prompt produced it? Was it aligned with the original business requirement?' In D-POAF, the answer is always reachable in under 5 minutes.

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The Traceability Chain

Every artifact produced by D-POAF must trace back to a clear business intent. Here is the chain, top to bottom:

   Production artifact (code, document, decision)
                  ↑
                  │ [AI:model:PA-ID] tag in commit message (DL-005)
                  │
   Pull Request / Commit (Git history)
                  ↑
                  │ Linked PR URL in PA page
                  │
   Prompt Action (PA-NNN)
                  ↑
                  │ Model + Config + Context (Traceability Thread, DL-006)
                  │ Wave relation field (link to parent Wave Scope)
                  │
   Wave Scope (WAVE-YYYY-NNN)
                  ↑
                  │ Business Objective + PoD/PoV/PoR criteria
                  │ Linked Jira Epic (DL-004)
                  │
   Business Intent (Sponsor's request)

Forward Direction (Intent → Outcome)

Use case: 'Where did the AI generate code for our sentiment classifier?'

  1. Open the Wave Scope page (e.g., WAVE-EXAMPLE-001)
  2. Read the Business Objective and PoD/PoV/PoR criteria
  3. Navigate to Prompt Actions database and filter by Wave = WAVE-EXAMPLE-001
  4. For each PA, read the Model + Config + Context
  5. Follow the PR URL field to the actual code in GitHub

Time to answer: 2-3 minutes.

Reverse Direction (Outcome → Intent)

Use case: 'Why is this line of code in the codebase? Who wrote it? With what intent?'

  1. Run git blame on the suspicious line
  2. Read the commit message: contains [AI:claude-sonnet-4-5:PA-001]
  3. In Notion, search 'PA-001' (Ctrl+P or top search bar)
  4. On the PA page, read: Model identity, Model config, Context source, Prompt text, Output summary, Quality
  5. Click the 'Wave' relation field → navigate to the parent Wave Scope
  6. On the Wave page, read: Business Objective + Wave Captain + Linked Jira Epic + PoD/PoV/PoR