HAUSE

Provenance

The publication record beneath the page — dates, version, identifiers, history — disclosed on demand, absent where nothing is registered.

OPERATE THE FORM ↓
01 / THE ENCOUNTERAN INSTRUMENT — THE READER OPERATES

A STUDY IN PROVENANCE

A claim should have a way back.

Inspect the actual publication record behind this site. Dates, author and identifiers belong to the same object.

Who said it?
When?
Which version?

PUBLISHED 29 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0

CITE

repository github.com/chrishayuk/hause · site build 3ee5339 · built 2026-09-09 · forms held 35

CITE THIS

Software · 0.1.0

Hay, C. (2026). HAUSE — a design system for AI (Version 0.1.0). hause.design. https://hause.design

This study uses HAUSE_RECORD and HAUSE_HISTORY. It does not invent an archive ID, DOI or independent endorsement.

INSPECT THE REUSABLE LIBRARY COMPONENT

PUBLISHED 29 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0

CITE

repository github.com/chrishayuk/hause · site build 3ee5339 · built 2026-09-09 · forms held 35

02 / THE DECISION

An act.
Not a container.

YOU ARE SHOWING WHAT HOLDS IT UP

Saying when this was published, and what it was built from.

Does this page make a claim someone might need to date?

EXPLORE THE SELECTION GRAMMAR ↗

What is the Provenance form in HAUSE, and when do you use it?

The Provenance form is a HAUSE instrument — the publication record beneath the page — dates, version, identifiers, history — disclosed on demand, absent where nothing is registered. An instrument whose resting state is a single quiet line — published, revised, version, author, DOI where one exists — and whose expansion is the full record: the identifiers that pin the work to actual objects (a commit, an artifact hash, an archive record) and the dated history of how it came to be said.

origin — vindex3 · citing the specification · 2026-08-31

THE LIBRARY’S OWN ACCOUNT

Behind the form.

components/forms/Provenance.tsx

An instrument whose resting state is a single quiet line — published, revised, version, author, DOI where one exists — and whose expansion is the full record: the identifiers that pin the work to actual objects (a commit, an artifact hash, an archive record) and the dated history of how it came to be said.

Provenance belongs in the interface, not in a footer: a claim that cannot be dated is a claim that cannot be defended. What the form will not do is invent the defence — an identifier that has not been registered is absent, never a placeholder, and `published` is the first publication date, never the last edit.

THE INSTRUMENT’S DISCIPLINE

Every instrument carries an always-present text fallback, so the point survives with the interaction removed — for reduced motion, for no-JS, for a crawler, and for anyone in a hurry. ARIA state is part of the form, because an agent browser reads aria-pressed and aria-expanded to understand what it is looking at.

03 / MAKE SOMETHINGINSTALL HAUSE ↗

Give it your subject.

The opening study is an authored demonstration, not an additional component API. Expand the library specimen above to inspect the reusable form. Its props below come directly from the source.

REACT · Provenance

import { Provenance } from "@chrishayuk/hause/components/forms/Provenance";

export type ProvenanceEvent = { date: string; text: string };

export type ProvenanceProps = {
	/** The published object this page is. One record; four surfaces. */
	record: CitationRecord;
	/** Dated events, newest first — when the work was made, not when the page was touched. */
	history?: ProvenanceEvent[];
	/** Anchor of the Citation block, so the line can offer CITE. */
	citeHref?: string;
	id?: string;
};

export function Provenance({ record, history, citeHref, id }: ProvenanceProps)

The import and the complete props contract. For installation and composition, follow the Build guide.

NOT INVENTED IN ISOLATION

A page needed this.

2026-08-31 · Entered the library from vindex3 · citing the specification.

Used in hause.design. These exhibitions share an author; this is evidence of reuse, not independent adoption.

04 / THE PROBLEMNOTHING TO CITE ↗The idea was published. Months later there is a page that has quietly changed, an updated timestamp where a publication date should be, and no version anyone can point at.

PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0

CITE

source components/forms/Provenance.tsx · origin vindex3 · citing the specification · 2026-08-31 · site build 3ee5339 · built 2026-09-09

CITE THIS

Web page · 0.1.0

Hay, C. (2026). Provenance — a HAUSE instrument. In HAUSE — a design system for AI (Version 0.1.0). hause.design. https://hause.design/forms/provenance

The specimen, the source account and the props share one form record. Cite this page or follow its source identifier to inspect the implementation.