AI Disclosure
Declare AI provenance at the page level and element level. Aligned with the WHATWG/W3C Community Group proposal and EU AI Act Article 50.
ASW supports two disclosure surfaces: page-level via <meta> tags in <head>, and element-level via the ai-disclosure attribute for sections of mixed provenance. Both are machine-readable; the element-level attribute also produces subtle visual treatment.
Page-level disclosure
Declare the provenance of an entire page in the <head>. Crawled by agents, indexed by search engines that support the standard.
<!-- Page entirely AI-generated -->
<meta name="ai-disclosure" content="ai-generated">
<meta name="ai-model" content="claude-sonnet-4-6">
<meta name="ai-provider" content="Anthropic">
<meta name="author" content="Vigilio Desto">All ASW docs pages carry these tags. ai-model and ai-provider are optional but recommended for provenance traceability.
| Meta name | Values | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
ai-disclosure | ai-generated · ai-assisted · autonomous · mixed | Content provenance |
ai-model | Any string | Model identifier, e.g. claude-sonnet-4-6 |
ai-provider | Any string | Provider name, e.g. Anthropic |
If the entire page is AI-generated, use <meta> in <head>. Use the element-level ai-disclosure attribute only for sections of a page with mixed provenance.
Element-level disclosure
For pages where different sections have different provenance — some human-written, some AI-generated — use the ai-disclosure attribute on individual elements:
<section ai-disclosure="ai-generated" ai-model="claude-sonnet-4-6">
<!-- fully agent-generated section -->
</section>
<section ai-disclosure="ai-assisted">
<!-- human-written, AI-refined -->
</section>
<section ai-disclosure="autonomous">
<!-- generated in autonomous mode, no human in loop -->
</section>Visual treatment: a subtle left border. ai-generated is faint; autonomous uses the accent color (green).
This section carries ai-disclosure="ai-generated" — faint green-tinted left border.
This section carries ai-disclosure="ai-assisted" — blue-tinted border.
This section carries ai-disclosure="autonomous" — full accent border.
| Attribute | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
ai-disclosure | ai-generated | Content created entirely by an AI system |
ai-disclosure | ai-assisted | Human-written, refined or edited by AI |
ai-disclosure | autonomous | AI-generated without human review in the loop |
ai-disclosure | mixed | Blended provenance within the element |
ai-model | Any string | Model identifier, e.g. claude-sonnet-4-6 |
data-show-disclosure | (boolean) | Add an inline badge showing the disclosure value |
Disclosure badge
Add data-show-disclosure to display an inline badge in the element's corner:
<section ai-disclosure="autonomous" data-show-disclosure>
Autonomous session output.
</section>This section has data-show-disclosure — the badge shows in the corner.
The badge is generated via CSS ::after using content: attr(ai-disclosure). It floats to the top-right and uses the same color as the border treatment.
Connection to data-session
ASW's session vocabulary predates the disclosure standard but maps to it 1:1. For Vigilio-native pages, data-session blocks already carry the same semantic information:
| ASW attribute | Equivalent ai-disclosure |
|---|---|
data-session | ai-disclosure="ai-generated" (block wrapper) |
data-mode="autonomous" | ai-disclosure="autonomous" |
data-mode="interactive" | ai-disclosure="ai-assisted" |
data-hash | Session provenance (git-addressable) |
Use data-session for full session blocks on Vigilio-native pages. Use ai-disclosure for standard-aligned markup on mixed-provenance pages or anywhere interoperability with external tooling matters.
See the Session page for the full data-session vocabulary.
Reference
| Surface | Attribute / Meta | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page | meta[name="ai-disclosure"] | ai-generated · ai-assisted · autonomous · mixed | Whole-page provenance in <head> |
| Page | meta[name="ai-model"] | Any string | Model identifier for the page |
| Page | meta[name="ai-provider"] | Any string | Provider name |
| Element | ai-disclosure | ai-generated · ai-assisted · autonomous · mixed | Element-level provenance, visual treatment |
| Element | ai-model | Any string | Model that generated this element |
| Element | data-show-disclosure | (boolean) | Display inline disclosure badge |