docs(confidence-engine): preserve evidence provenance

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 - Omit items too verbose to scan; do not synthesise rewritten claims.
 - Never invent facts absent from the graph.

+### Provenance and attribution
+
+Preserve authorship and provenance in every user-facing presentation.
+
+When displaying a user's previous input, keep it visibly distinct from system-generated interpretation. If the original user wording is available, present it as the user's response rather than rewriting it into system prose. Derived Findings, summaries, uncertainties, assumptions, or follow-up questions must not be styled or worded in a way that implies the user said them.
+
+The distinction should be:
+
+```text
+User response        → user-authored (verbatim)
+What we learned      → Engine-derived
+```
+
+Exact labels are subject to UX refinement; the durable rule is separating provenance, not prescribing specific copy.
+
 ## Investigation Narrative

 The reasoning graph is the machine representation of the investigation.