Citations disappear on longer conversations

dru4522

I've noticed that for longer conversations with lots of searches, later responses do not contain citations. It might be a rendering issue since I see the brackets show up while the model is generating its response. I'm also able to have the model just write out the URLs explicitly and they look appropriate to me. Then, after I ask the model to go back to usual citation formats, the citations disappear again.

Here's a Kagi assistant thread that I can share for debugging: https://kagi.com/assistant/e6ce7ffe-9483-4301-bd8e-219c7006d0ba

Steps to reproduce:

Propose a systematic search plan on a topic
Do the search
Explain and elaborate, propose further searches
Repeat 1-3.

At some point, citations and references do not appear anymore.
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Citations should be present no matter the length of conversation or responses or number of references.

dru4522

Here’s a more minimal example of the issue when I was trying to find a workaround: https://kagi.com/assistant/888cda23-ccf6-4f96-8bff-b5f9472bf6ab

At some point, inline references don’t get written out. References also get mixed up. Markdown URLs also stop being clickable in later responses on the first appearance of the special inline citations.