Citations

The transport first shows what it is doing (BitAiStatusEvent("Searching the documentation"), cleared with BitAiStatusEvent(null)), then writes the answer a sentence at a time, sending a BitAiCitationEvent after each sentence it can source. Its BitAiCitation names a BitAiCitationSource - an id, a title, its Kind (web page, document...), its Url, SiteName and Description - and the Quote it relies on. A citation sent without offsets is not anchored anywhere: it only adds its source to the list under the answer.

A BitAiCitation carries character offsets into the text it supports (StartIndex, EndIndex). The renderer inserts a marker at each offset before parsing, so the superscript lands mid-sentence instead of being collected into a footnote nobody connects to anything. The sources the citations name are deduplicated and numbered under the answer, each number matching its markers.

Offsets that reach past the text received so far are held back, so a marker never appears in the wrong sentence while the answer streams. OnCitationClick and OnSourceClick hand the citation or the source to the app, to open it in a panel of its own as this page does.

• BitAiCitationMarker - the numbered chip where a claim is made.
• BitAiSourceList - the deduplicated sources under the answer.
• BitAiSourceCard - one source, in that list and beside the chat.
• BitAiTextPartView - the text the citations are woven into.