Cite or refuse

Learn in five minutes

• Every factual sentence needs a passage or a refusal.
• A citation the index did not return is not a citation.
• OWASP's LLM project lists risks including overreliance and sensitive data. Read the current list before you treat a version as final.
• Refusal is a successful output when the notes are silent.
• This lab invents no customer story.

The worked example is a library card, not a person. If the card lacks a due date, the answer is that the card lacks it.

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A silent card

1. Card text: title and author only.
2. Question: when is it due?
3. Accepted answer: the card does not say.
4. Rejected answer: any date.

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Quiz

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Ecosystem

Citation

A pointer to a passage you actually retrieved.

Sisters: Search indexes, Embeddings, Rerankers, Citations.

A voice agent and a chat agent can share the same note index.

The capstone answers only from notes you are allowed to use.

Config

• Write the goal in one sentence.
• Name the input and the allowed output.
• Save the trace next to the result.

Troubleshooting

• The answer looks fluent and is wrong. Check whether a source passage actually contains the claim.
• The loop never stops. Set a step cap and stop when the tool result repeats.

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