Support Anthropic’s Citation API

[kdawgwilk]

Feature Description

Implement support for Anthropic’s Citation API within the Vercel AI SDK. This integration would enable developers to retrieve and display citations accompanying AI-generated content, enhancing transparency and credibility. The SDK should facilitate:

• Citation Retrieval: Automatically extract citations from AI responses when provided by Anthropic’s models.
• Metadata Access: Provide access to citation details such as URLs, publication dates, and titles.

Use Cases

1. Improving Transparency in AI Responses: Developers can enhance user trust by displaying sources for factual statements or recommendations generated by the AI.
2. Educational Applications: Apps providing learning content or fact-based answers can link directly to source material for further exploration.
3. Compliance and Accuracy: Apps in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) can ensure users see where the AI’s information comes from, mitigating misinformation risks.
4. Enhanced User Experience: By embedding citations, apps can offer richer interactions, encouraging user engagement with credible sources.

Additional context

Anthropic recently introduced the Citation API to improve the transparency and accountability of AI-generated responses. This aligns with growing demand for verifiable information in AI applications. By integrating support into the Vercel AI SDK, developers leveraging Anthropic models could seamlessly adopt this capability.

My use case involves building an AI coaching application where displaying relevant, verifiable sources is crucial for user trust and retention. Supporting citations would make it easier to surface trustworthy recommendations and insights directly to end-users.

Here’s the announcement for reference: Anthropic: Introducing the Citation API.

[RobertHH-IS]

Second this - would really like to try this out - make sure to implement for both anthropic and google-vertec/anthropic!

[elie222]

+1. Would love to see this supported on Bedrock Anthropic too. Although not sure it's available there yet.