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AI Inline Citation

Numbered inline citation markers in an AI answer with a hover card showing the source title, host and snippet.

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Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.

About this block

What it's for

  • Numbered inline citation markers in an AI answer with a hover card showing the source title, host and snippet.
  • Footnote style source markers like [1] that open a popover, with a carousel when several sources back one claim.
  • Cite sources inside a chat response paragraph.

For markdown rendering of a whole message, use AI Message Bubble.

Includes

  • Numbered citation markers
  • Citation hover card
  • Source title host snippet
  • Grouped markers
  • Source carousel
  • Viewport aware popover
  • Keyboard and focus support
  • Marker parsing

Works with

  • Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
  • React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4 in Next.js (App Router), Vite, React Router or TanStack Start, installed with the agentic-ui or shadcn CLI
  • Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode

Install

Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.

Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add ai-inline-citation
Installs through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/ai-inline-citation

Used in

A standalone component: drop it into any screen.

Type
Block
Variants
Radix UI and Base UI
Themes
Light and dark
Widths
Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.