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Outcome

  • replaces blanket no-source refusals with clearly labeled, useful best-effort guidance when a credible candidate exists
  • never presents unsupported Chamorro language claims as verified and never invents citations or numeric confidence
  • gives every completed answer a deterministic evidence tier: Source-supported, Web-informed, or Unverified best effort
  • preserves every existing governed source and retrieval path

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  • repository gate: 458 API tests passed, 4 skipped; 302 web tests passed; lint, typecheck, build, source governance, routing benchmark, and audio sync passed
  • local Chrome QA: existing cited answers render Source-supported; an unmatched aardvark lookup renders Unverified best effort; an explicit request for possibilities returns clearly unverified candidates instead of a blanket refusal
  • owned local servers and QA tab were cleaned after testing
  • Replaces blanket no-source refusals with clearly labeled unverified best-effort guidance when a credible candidate exists.
  • Prevents unsupported Chamorro claims, fabricated citations, and numeric confidence values.
  • Assigns each completed answer one evidence tier: Source-supported, Web-informed, or Unverified best effort.
  • Preserves usable web evidence during prompt truncation with suffix-preserving token handling.
  • Tracks formatted web-result usage in API responses, streaming metadata, and conversation logs.
  • Adds getChatEvidenceStatus and ChatEvidenceStatus to classify responses by source count and web-result usage.
  • Updates Message to display accessible, status-specific evidence disclosures.
  • Updates the used_web_search field description to state that usable web results informed the response.
  • Adds API and web tests for guidance rules, evidence classification, prompt truncation, citation restrictions, and evidence disclosures.
  • Validation passed for API and web tests, lint, typecheck, build, source governance, routing benchmark, and audio synchronization. Local Chrome QA covered cited answers, unmatched lookups, and explicit possibility requests.
  • Breaking changes: None reported.
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The chatbot now permits explicitly labeled uncertain answers after retrieval misses, preserves web context during token truncation, and tracks actual web-result usage. The web client classifies completed answers as source-supported, web-informed, or unverified best effort.

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Evidence-aware chatbot responses

Layer / File(s) Summary
Response guidance and web-result tracking
api/api/chatbot_service.py, api/api/models.py, api/tests/test_system.py
Translation and no-reference guidance permits labeled uncertain answers while prohibiting fabricated citations and confidence percentages. Responses and conversation logs now report actual formatted web-result usage. Tests verify these behaviors.
Suffix-preserving prompt budgeting
api/src/utils/token_manager.py, api/api/chatbot_service.py, api/tests/test_prompt_token_budget.py
Prompt truncation preserves the formatted web-results suffix within the token budget for streaming and non-streaming requests. Tests cover bounded prompts, empty suffixes, small budgets, and truncation indicators.
Evidence status classification
web/src/lib/chatEvidence.ts, web/src/lib/chatEvidence.test.ts
The client adds typed evidence statuses and prioritizes citations, then web-result usage, before classifying an answer as unverified best effort.
Evidence status rendering
web/src/components/Message.tsx, web/src/components/Message.evidence.test.tsx
Completed assistant messages display status-specific evidence labels, details, styling, icons, and accessible metadata. Component tests cover all three statuses.

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  participant Client
  participant chatbot_service
  participant token_manager
  participant ChatResponse
  participant Message
  Client->>chatbot_service: send chat request
  chatbot_service->>token_manager: truncate prompt while preserving web-results suffix
  token_manager-->>chatbot_service: return bounded prompt
  chatbot_service->>ChatResponse: return sources and actual web-result usage
  ChatResponse->>Message: provide evidence metadata
  Message->>Message: classify evidence status
  Message-->>Client: render status-specific evidence note
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In `@api/api/chatbot_service.py`:
- Line 696: Unify the dictionary-miss translation policy across the general and
Chamorro instructions: allow a credible candidate only when explicitly labeled
“Unverified best effort” with clear uncertainty, while distinguishing it from
verified translations. Remove conflicting prohibitions against all guessing,
update the existing examples and no-reference guard accordingly, and preserve
refusal behavior when no useful candidate exists.

In `@api/tests/test_system.py`:
- Line 55: Extend the test around chatbot_source to verify both changed
English-mode and learning-mode translation clauses, not only the shared
“Unverified best effort” guard label. Ensure the assertions exercise the
retrieval state where non-dictionary RAG context prevents NO_REFERENCE_GUARD
from being appended, or capture and inspect the assembled prompt for that state.

In `@web/src/lib/chatEvidence.ts`:
- Around line 20-25: Update the evidence-status logic in the chat evidence flow
so the “Web-informed” result is selected only when web search actually returns
usable results. Preserve usedWebSearch for routing or attempted-search tracking,
introduce or consume a separate results-used boolean from the chatbot service,
and use that boolean in the branch returning the web evidence status.
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- Line 1338: Update both chat paths around web_results_used and truncate_text so
oversized prompts retain the appended web_context within the token budget, or
derive web_results_used from the final truncated prompt so it cannot claim web
results when they were removed. Ensure API responses, stream metadata, and
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In `@api/src/utils/token_manager.py`:
- Around line 198-210: Update the token-fitting logic around truncate_text so
suffix and prefix budgets can reach zero when max_tokens is small, allowing
combined output to stay within max_tokens even with an oversized suffix. Modify
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