# Build attestations — Attestations as OCI artifacts

> You can configure the format of the attestation manifest using the oci-artifact option for the image and registry exporters.

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## Provenance

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## Knowledge

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You can configure the format of the attestation manifest using the oci-artifact option for the image and registry exporters. If set to true, the structure of the attestation manifest changes as follows

An artifactType field is added to the attestation manifest, with a value of application/vnd.docker.attestation.manifest.v1+json. The config field is an [empty descriptor] instead of a "dummy" config. A subject field is also added, pointing to the image manifest that the attestation refers to.

The following example shows an attestation with the OCI artifact format

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```json
{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
  "artifactType": "application/vnd.docker.attestation.manifest.v1+json",
  "config": {
    "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.empty.v1+json",
    "size": 2,
    "digest": "sha256:44136fa355b3678a1146ad16f7e8649e94fb4fc21fe77e8310c060f61caaff8a",
    "data": "e30="
  },
  "layers": [
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.in-toto+json",
      "size": 2208,
      "digest": "sha256:6d2f2c714a6bee3cf9e4d3cb9a966b629efea2dd8556ed81f19bd597b3325286",
      "annotations": {
        "in-toto.io/predicate-type": "https://slsa.dev/provenance/v0.2"
      }
    }
  ],
  "subject": {
    "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
    "size": 1054,
    "digest": "sha256:bc2046336420a2852ecf915786c20f73c4c1b50d7803aae1fd30c971a7d1cead",
    "platform": {
      "architecture": "amd64",
      "os": "lin
```

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