New setting clinical_assistant.citations_enabled (default true, admin checkbox).
With it off, retrieval, grounding and every other rule are unchanged — answers
are still built only from retrieved sources — but:
- buildSystemPrompt swaps only the citation block: the "cite factual claims with
[1]" rules are replaced with "do not include citations, source numbers or
bracketed markers", and the note that the sourcing requirement itself is
unchanged. Grounding, scope, table formatting and tone rules are byte-identical
between the two modes.
- The server strips any stray [n] the model emits anyway, from the stored answer
rather than only the view, so saved chats and exports match what was shown.
- No sources are sent to the client at all, and the status endpoint reports the
mode so the UI hides the Sources panel and gives its 330px column back to the
chat instead of showing an empty rail.
Validated as a boolean in adminConfig, like the feature.* keys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkfrkQwA4YGrGw9LZSpeAq
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