better UX for rag

[danielzzz]

it would be nice to be able to go to the source documents when using rag chat.
when I get an answer and source documents, sometimes it would be useful to be able to open the document and check the source

[onestardao]

Yeah, that moment when the answer lands — and something feels off, or just incomplete — and you want to chase the trace back.

Most RAG systems do the “source link” thing as a UI patch. But maybe the real need isn’t navigation, it’s semantic confirmation. Like: “does this sentence really live in that paragraph, or was it reborn out of thin embedding?”

We had cases where even opening the original doc didn’t help — because the answer was stitched from fragments never actually adjacent. Looked fine, read weird.

Not saying source jumping is wrong — just wondering if RAG UX should include a notion of semantic proximity, not just file refs.

Curious if anyone’s tried mapping that before.