Debugging Citation-Grounded Claude Agents: Failure Modes
Debug grounded Claude agents: hallucinated citations, retrieval loops, wrong tool calls, and unsupported spans — with a copy-paste verification gate.
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Debug grounded Claude agents: hallucinated citations, retrieval loops, wrong tool calls, and unsupported spans — with a copy-paste verification gate.
What to include and exclude in Claude's context when grounding answers with citations — curation, ordering, contracts, and caching that improve provenance.
Connect MCP servers as evidence for cited Claude answers: auth at the boundary, strict schemas, three-state errors, and idempotent reads.
Code-level patterns for grounding Claude answers: a provenance type, titled document blocks, no-answer contracts, and separated verification calls.
A copy-pasteable guide to wiring Claude's Citations API into a retrieval app: request shape, response parsing, span mapping, and verification.
Inside the architecture of grounding Claude answers with citations: retrieval, document blocks, the Citations API, span offsets, and verification.
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