Design a citation model that stays readable for users and debuggable for engineers.

Instruction: Describe how you would design citations that work for both end users and the internal team.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would design citations that work for both end users and the internal team.

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I would design citations at two levels: a user-facing level that stays readable, and an engineering-facing level that preserves exact provenance. Users need claim-to-source visibility without a wall of tokens. Engineers need enough detail to debug which chunk, section, or document version supported each statement.

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