# RAG Citation Cards

Assistant reply with sources [1]-[n] whose full passage is inspected by hovering over each card.

- id: `rag-citation-cards`
- Page: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/components/rag-citation-cards
- Live preview: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/live/component/rag-citation-cards

## Install

```bash
agentic-ui add rag-citation-cards
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/rag-citation-cards
```

## Metadata

- **Level:** block
- **Category:** block
- **Installable in:** Radix UI (registry variant new-york)
- **Capabilities:** numbered-source-cards, hover-intent-preview, inline-citation-linking, relevance-score-metrics, source-type-badges, retrieval-metadata-inspection, pinned-preview, empty-state, error-recovery, loading-skeleton, keyboard-navigation
- **Intents:** retrieve-knowledge, explore-detail, communicate, track-status
- **Suits domains:** ai-workspace, ai-content, knowledge, support, devtools
- **Interaction:** hover-intent-preview, focus-preview-parity, pinned-preview, inline-marker-linking, keyboard-navigation
- **Screen role:** detail
- **Density:** compact
- **Dark mode:** yes
- **Use it for:** assistant reply with sources [1]-[n] whose full passage is inspected by hovering over each card, support console showing cited knowledge base articles with a quick preview without leaving the conversation, engineering assistant that cites code files and shows the retrieved snippet on hover, claim verifier that links inline markers to numbered source cards
- **Avoid when:** persistent in-depth side-by-side inspection is needed (use ai-citations-panel with a fixed inspector), responses without external document grounding or RAG
- **Preserve when adapting:** numbered-card-layout, hover-intent-preview-contract, relevance-score-visualization, keyboard-navigation-and-shortcuts, inline-marker-linking
- **Replace when adapting:** domain-sources-data, retrieval-metadata-schema, type-categories-and-icons
- **Adaptation effort:** low
- **Coupling:** low
- **Quality score:** 9.2/10
- **Quality breakdown:** visual 9/10, responsive 9/10, accessibility 9/10, code 9/10
- **Uses primitives:** badge, button
- **Motion:** profile subtle, library css, reduced-motion fallback yes
- **Registry dependencies:** lib-primitives