How would you answer an interview scenario involving RAG citations and source attribution?

For an interview scenario involving RAG citations and source attribution, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. Source attribution links generated claims to the documents or chunks used as evidence. In this scenario, for a compliance assistant, explain how you would generate citations and detect answers that make claims unsupported by retrieved evidence. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.