# \#provides

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## [How does mender client store provides on the device?](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-does-mender-client-store-provides-on-the-device/4258)

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**Author:** [@mho](https://hub.mender.io/u/mho)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-does-mender-client-store-provides-on-the-device/4258 "2021-11-01T08:15:17Z")

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I’m trying to understand how mender-client stores provides on device. Where are they stored, and when do they get written to the device? Are they available pre-commit of the artifact? How is the data protected - could …

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## [How to porperly add a "provides" to the inventory?](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-porperly-add-a-provides-to-the-inventory/3820)

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**Author:** [@Steven](https://hub.mender.io/u/Steven)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-porperly-add-a-provides-to-the-inventory/3820 "2021-07-02T13:03:57Z")

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I would like to add a provides in the inventory of our devices. To do this, I use the option -p config\_variant:some\_hash when building the artifact. The provides field does show up in the mender client when I do mender s…