Empirical effect of semantic persistence on audit quality and trust

Determine whether representing consequential workflow artifacts as typed, contextualized, and dependency-linked persistent records improves audit quality or trust in practice.

Background

The proposed model claims that explicit types, context snapshots, identities, and dependency relations can make workflow history and mediated judgments more reviewable. However, the paper does not empirically establish that these affordances improve audit quality or trust; the authors explicitly classify this relationship as an empirical question requiring future evaluation.

References

Whether these affordances improve audit quality or trust in practice is an empirical question, not a claim of this paper.

— Workflow as Knowledge: Semantic Persistence for LLM-Mediated Workflows  (2607.08740 - Quinto et al., 9 Jul 2026) in Section 5, “Discussion And Limits”