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RAG Citation Verification: Building Deterministic Byte-Span Validators in TypeScript

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Summary

The article walks through building a TypeScript middleware that validates RAG citations by checking exact byte‑span offsets against source buffers, replacing fuzzy heuristics with deterministic guarantees. Benchmarks show sub‑millisecond verification for 1,000 citations across 50 documents.

  • Byte‑span offsets give a binary guarantee of citation grounding, avoiding token or character misalignments.
  • Define a strict `GroundingAssertion` contract and use structured LLM output (JSON/function calling) to capture sourceId, byteStart, byteEnd, and citedText.
  • Implement a citation extractor that validates schema and numeric offsets before verification.
  • Integrate the validator as post‑generation middleware in LangChain pipelines to keep verification stateless and composable.

Any team deploying production RAG systems—especially in regulated domains—needs deterministic citation checks to prevent hallucinated references and audit failures.

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