Citations & Trust

Make your RAG system verifiable and trustworthy

🔑 Key Concepts

Citation format — Every claim should link back to source: [doc.md §3.2]. Machine-parseable citations enable verification.
Citation verification — For each cited claim, check that the source actually contains that information. Automated checking catches hallucinations.
Confidence scoring — Rate answer confidence based on retrieval scores and faithfulness. Low confidence → 'I'm not sure' response.
Audit trail — Log: query, retrieved docs, generated answer, citations, faithfulness score. Essential for debugging and compliance.

💡 Practice: Try implementing each concept yourself before moving on. Reading about RAG and building RAG are very different things.