devverse-rag-chat

name	devverse-rag-chat
description	DevVerse chat, citation, and retrieval workflow. Use when modifying the chat page, the chat API route, citation parsing, local retrieval fallback, Pinecone or Gemini integration, or the article vectorization pipeline.

DevVerse RAG And Chat Workflow

1. Preserve the response contract between backend and UI. The UI expects an answer string, a sources array, bracket citations in the answer body, and a trailing Sources: section that it strips before rendering.

2. Keep citation parsing aligned with UI behavior. If you change citation formatting, update both lib/chat-citations.ts and the chat UI in the same task.

3. Preserve hybrid retrieval unless you are intentionally redesigning it. lib/rag.ts merges Pinecone results with the local lexical fallback from lib/rag-local.ts.

4. Read the detailed contract before changing retrieval, prompt format, or vector metadata. @references/rag-contract.md

5. Assume Pinecone vectors are stale after article or chunking changes until vectorization is rerun.

6. Validate chat changes with both tests and explicit runtime caveats. Use the devverse-validate skill for automated checks, then note any live env checks you could not perform.