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Cited answers

Autessa Drive agents answer with citations to the exact file, page and line, such as /Contracts/acme-msa.pdf p.4 L.12. They are guided to search for the topic, grep for exact wording, read the page or lines before quoting, and cite what they read, so anyone with access can check the source in one click.

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Ask your contractsCited answerSAMPLE
How much notice does Acme need to end the contract early?
drive_search "early termination notice" → 3 files
drive_read /Contracts/acme-msa.pdf pages 4
drive_grep "sixty (60) days" → p4:L12
Sixty days’ written notice, and either party can use it. 1 Globex’s agreement is different: thirty days, customer only. 2
1/Contracts/acme-msa.pdf p.4 L.122/Contracts/globex-msa.pdf p.7 L.3

the-problem.md

An AI answer you can’t check is a guess

Teams won’t act on AI document Q&A that says “according to your files” without showing where. Answers need locators that point at a specific page and line, in a file the reader is allowed to open.

README · what you get
  • Results come back with locators like path p.N L.M.
  • Agents read the page or line range before quoting it, instead of paraphrasing a search snippet.
  • grep output includes the file version, so a citation names exactly what was read.
  • Text and code cite real line numbers; PDFs and Office files cite a page and a line on that page.
  • fetch with view lets the agent look at a chart, photo or scanned page when the text alone is not enough.
  • Citations point at files the reader can open, because the agent sees only what its acting person sees.
  • Agents can leave comments anchored to the cited passage for review.

how-it-works

How does cited answers work in Autessa Drive?

  1. 1

    Ask a question

    In an assistant, an agent or any channel the agent runs on.

  2. 2

    The agent searches and greps

    Search by topic or meaning, grep for exact wording.

  3. 3

    It reads before it quotes

    drive_read pulls the page or lines with numbers.

  4. 4

    You get a cited answer

    Each claim carries a path, page and line you can open.

every-option

Citation formats

OptionWhat it does
PDF and Office files/path/file.pdf p.4 L.12
Text, code, CSV, Markdown/path/file.md L.41
grep hit/path/file.pdf (v2) p4:L12: matching text
Visual checkdrive_fetch with view, up to 5 pages
Review noteA comment anchored to the page or text

permissions

Who can do what?

WhoCan
Agent with a Drive toolCite only files its acting identity can open.
ViewerOpen the cited file at the page to check it.

AI agents

How AI agents use it

Citations are how a person verifies an agent in seconds. The answer is short, the locator is exact, and the file opens at that page.

Agents only reach files the person they act for can open, and every agent write is a version you can undo.

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connected

How it connects to the rest of Autessa Drive

DRIVE FEATURE

Exact text

Where line-level locators come from.

DRIVE FEATURE

Extraction

Page-by-page text, including scans.

DRIVE FEATURE

Comments

Agents can leave anchored review notes.

AUTESSA PRODUCT

AI Firewall

Add checks on what agents say and do.

faq.md

Questions about cited answers

Do Autessa Drive agents cite their sources?

Yes. Agents cite answers as path, page and line, for example /Contracts/acme-msa.pdf p.4 L.12, after reading that page.

Can a citation point to a file I can’t open?

No, when the agent acts for you. It sees only what you can see, so every citation is a file you can open.

Can agents read charts and scans?

Yes. With fetch and view on, the agent looks at up to 5 pages or an image directly.

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Try cited answers in Autessa Drive

Autessa Drive agents cite every answer to the file, page and line it came from, such as /Contracts/acme-msa.pdf p.4 L.12, so anyone can check the source in one click.

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