{
  "title": "How AI assistants find and cite sources: public assessment appendix",
  "assessment_date_local": "2026-11-03",
  "timezone": "Asia/Dubai",
  "scope": {
    "question_platform_cases": 20,
    "usable_answers_captured": 17,
    "cases_without_usable_answers_after_retries": 3,
    "study_type": "Single-account observational pilot, with unmatched modes and existing personalization. Not a comparative quality or reliability benchmark."
  },
  "method": [
    "Identical five prompts in fresh chats, without added search or citation instructions.",
    "Existing settings retained. Observation began in Comet; lock and concurrent control interruptions led to Chrome recovery and retries. Some waiting periods overlapped across platforms.",
    "All 20 exact prompts verified in non-excluded UI captures. Earlier attempts retained privately.",
    "189 saved UI captures include four excluded unrelated-tab captures. Repeated snapshots do not represent additional prompt submissions.",
    "Raw captures, conversation identifiers, account information and unrelated memory details are not published. Public URLs below are selected examples, not a complete source inventory.",
    "An exact query is a visible string. A result is a displayed link. Read/open is a UI-reported event. Final citation is a link scoped to the answer or a citation dialog. These categories are separate and can overlap.",
    "Absence from final citations does not prove rejection or non-use. Missing UI events do not prove missing backend retrieval.",
    "Answers, product prices, security statements and implementation claims were recorded, not independently validated. Site-owner guidance in the article is separately linked to official documentation.",
    "Public source URLs omit query parameters and fragments, including opaque tracking/session values. Exact observed URLs remain in the private archive. Deduplication within each selected category follows this normalization."
  ],
  "private_capture_archive_sha256": "06e80cf4bebde406c6a0d95c81d85aa902fe7df644a2457aa65da7104f17879a",
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      "text": "What is the best documentation platform for a small SaaS team that ships frequently and needs its docs to stay accurate for both developers and AI agents? Our budget is $250 per month."
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "text": "Which tools and APIs should I consider for building an app that lets users send stablecoins across different blockchains? Compare the strongest options on integration effort, supported chains, fees, and reliability."
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "text": "How do I add Google sign-in to a Next.js application using the App Router? Walk me through the implementation, including configuration and common mistakes."
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "text": "My website’s pages are indexed by Google, but AI assistants rarely mention or cite them. How can I investigate why this is happening, and which changes should I prioritize?"
    },
    {
      "id": 5,
      "text": "How do Mintlify, GitBook, and ReadMe compare for API documentation? We need interactive API examples, versioning, AI search, and a straightforward migration from an existing docs site. Which would you choose and why?"
    }
  ],
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      "answer_summary": "Trial Thally Cloud first; provisional recommendation based on published vendor capabilities. Compare against GitBook Essential and Mintlify.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": "Track maintenance from product changes plus MCP, llms.txt and structured JSON; published $199/month within $250 budget. GitBook Agent tier plus seats and Mintlify Pro exceed budget. Test three real releases and credit consumption before committing.",
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      "personalization_context": [
        "Explicit Memory source displayed; Thally recommendation cannot establish organic web discovery."
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          "https://mintlify.com/pricing",
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          "https://gitbook.com/docs/gitbook-agent"
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          "https://thally.io/pricing",
          "https://thally.io/faq",
          "https://thally.io/features/agent-layer",
          "https://gitbook.com/pricing",
          "https://mintlify.com/pricing"
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        "completed_read": ["https://thally.io/pricing"]
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      "question": 2,
      "status": "complete",
      "observed_mode": "Work · model power not separately rechecked",
      "answer_summary": "Circle CCTP/Bridge Kit for a USDC-only MVP; LI.FI and Relay for a broader stablecoin app; Across for selected high-volume routes; USDT0 for USDT-heavy use cases.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": "Compare native burn/mint versus aggregated routing, route-specific availability and total costs, partial completion, refund handling, and provider failure modes. Benchmark exact routes and transfer amounts before choosing.",
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          "https://docs.across.to/",
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          "https://docs.across.to/introduction/refunds",
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      "observed_mode": "Work · model power not separately rechecked",
      "answer_summary": "Use Auth.js v5 with consistent beta APIs, Google OAuth credentials and exact callback URI, server-side session checks, and separate authorization at API/data boundaries.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
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          "https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/production-readiness/overview",
          "https://authjs.dev/getting-started/deployment",
          "https://authjs.dev/getting-started/providers/google",
          "https://authjs.dev/getting-started/session-management/login",
          "https://authjs.dev/getting-started/session-management/protecting"
        ]
      }
    },
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      "id": "chatgpt-q4",
      "platform": "ChatGPT",
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      "status": "complete; final answer recovered after interruption",
      "observed_mode": "Work · recovered High setting observed",
      "answer_summary": "Separate discovery, access/reading, and source selection. Establish repeated-prompt baselines; test ordinary discovery, domain-targeted retrieval and direct URL reading; inspect crawler/WAF access; improve relevant pages and verifiable evidence before optional AI-specific formats.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
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      "question": 5,
      "status": "complete",
      "observed_mode": "Work · Chrome DOM showed GPT-6.1 Sol Extra High",
      "answer_summary": "ReadMe Pro for an API-focused product, provided AI answers scoped to the stable release are sufficient. GitBook is the value/collaboration alternative; Mintlify suits MDX/Git workflows at a higher AI-enabled price.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": "Weights release lifecycle controls, interactive references, website import, AI version scope and migration limits. Recommends a pilot with two API versions as the deciding test.",
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      "question": 1,
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      "answer_summary": "Fern first, GitBook runner-up. Prefer Fern for OpenAPI-driven developer docs and GitBook for mixed technical/nontechnical authors.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": "Spec-driven docs generation, Markdown/llms.txt/MCP, free plan within budget. Rejects Mintlify Pro as above budget and ReadMe Pro plus Ask AI as above budget.",
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        "Mintlify vs Fern vs GitBook documentation platform comparison 2026",
        "documentation platform llms.txt MCP server for AI agents docs"
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      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
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        "Circle CCTP V2 supported chains fees documentation",
        "LayerZero OFT V2 stablecoin bridging fees documentation",
        "Axelar Squid Router cross-chain swap API documentation",
        "Wormhole NTT native token transfers stablecoin documentation",
        "Across protocol intents API cross-chain transfer documentation",
        "Chainlink CCIP stablecoin transfer fees documentation",
        "LiFi API cross-chain swap integration documentation",
        "deBridge API cross-chain transfer documentation",
        "Relay API cross-chain transfers Reservoir documentation",
        "Hyperlane warp routes stablecoin documentation",
        "cross-chain bridge security track record hacks comparison 2025",
        "Stargate fee on stablecoin transfer documentation"
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          "https://docs.li.fi/agents/overview",
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          "https://developers.circle.com/cctp/migration-from-v1-to-v2",
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      "question": 3,
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      "answer_stated_rationale": "Explains Google credentials and callback configuration, environment variables, session checks, separately protected API/data operations, production deployment and common mistakes.",
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        "site.authjs.dev Next.js installation AUTH_GOOGLE_ID AUTH_SECRET handlers auth",
        "site.authjs.dev Google provider redirect URI next-auth beta",
        "site.nextjs.org authentication authorization server actions proxy",
        "site.authjs.dev getting-started providers google redirect consent screen",
        "site.developers.google.com identity oauth2 web server redirect_uri_mismatch testing test users",
        "site.authjs.dev deployment AUTH_TRUST_HOST AUTH_URL"
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      "id": "perplexity-q4",
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      "question": 4,
      "status": "complete",
      "observed_mode": "Computer / Light (Q1–2); Chrome Search / Best (Q3–5)",
      "answer_summary": "Investigate access → discovery → retrieval → selection; fix the earliest demonstrated failure before optional AI SEO additions.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": "Separates brand mentions, domain citations and intended-page citations. Prioritizes crawler/HTML access, query/page relevance and credible evidence, then repeated measurement.",
      "visible_exact_queries": [
        "My website’s pages are indexed by Google, but AI assistants rarely mention or cite them. How can I investigate why this is happening, and which changes should I prioritize?",
        "site.platform.openai.com bots OAI-SearchBot GPTBot search robots",
        "site.perplexity.ai PerplexityBot robots crawler documentation",
        "site.bing.com webmasters AI performance citations dashboard",
        "site.developers.openai.com crawlers OAI-SearchBot GPTBot independent controls"
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      "answer_stated_rationale": "Weights API playgrounds, parallel versions, migration workflows and editing model. Recommends a pilot that tests real auth, version-specific AI answers, redirects and multiple contributor roles.",
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      "answer_summary": "No usable recommendation captured.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
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      "personalization_context": [],
      "selected_observed_urls": {}
    },
    {
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      "observed_mode": "Flash",
      "answer_summary": "No usable implementation captured.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
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      "personalization_context": [],
      "selected_observed_urls": {}
    },
    {
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      "question": 4,
      "status": "complete",
      "observed_mode": "Flash",
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      "answer_stated_rationale": "Frames citation as a retrieval/filtering issue and emphasizes semantic relevance, parsing, answer placement and external signals.",
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      }
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      "answer_summary": "No usable comparison captured.",
      "answer_stated_rationale": null,
      "visible_exact_queries": [],
      "personalization_context": [],
      "selected_observed_urls": {}
    },
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      "status": "complete",
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      "answer_stated_rationale": "Weights plan eligibility, monthly budget, maintenance automations and team workflow. Mentions Thally as addressing a maintenance gap, but does not recommend it as the selected platform.",
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        "Mintlify pricing plans 2026",
        "GitBook pricing 2026",
        "ReadMe.com documentation pricing plans",
        "Fern docs pricing"
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