# R42 spec: the in-app chatbot

R42 is a knowledge-base-grounded assistant available on every screen. It runs
client-side and is grounded by local TF-IDF retrieval — **no vector database**.

- **UI:** `src/components/chat/` — `ChatLauncher.jsx`, `ChatWindow.jsx`, `useChat.js`
- **Prompt/tool:** `src/components/chat/prompts.js`
- **Retrieval/validation:** `src/components/chat/rag.js` + `src/lib/retrieval.js`
- **KB writes:** `src/lib/kbStore.js`

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## Conversation

- The brand mark (`src/components/ui/Mark.jsx`) renders R42 in idle / typing / error states.
- Messages persist per user in `localStorage` under `chat:thread:{userId}`, capped at
  **50** messages. Only roughly the last **12** turns are sent to the API; older
  context is truncated with a notice.
- A greeting message seeds an empty thread.
- Each turn calls `callLLM` (fast/standard Claude tier — low latency matters for chat).
- The chat header has a **clear** button (trash icon). It confirms, then wipes
  `chat:thread:{userId}` and reseeds the greeting via `clearThread` in `useChat.js`.

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## Grounding (RAG via TF-IDF)

`buildKbContext` in `rag.js`:
1. Build / reuse the TF-IDF index over `topics` (`src/lib/retrieval.js`).
2. Retrieve the top **10** topics for the user's message. Scoring is exact-token
   TF-IDF **plus a compound-word fallback**: an unmatched query token (≥6 chars)
   also matches a document term when they share a ≥6-char stem or one contains
   the other, at a reduced weight. This recovers Dutch compounds — e.g. a
   `pensioen` query matches `pensioenregeling` and `partnerpensioen`.
3. Always include topics whose `id` or `label` appears verbatim in the message.
4. Include relations only when **both** endpoints are in the retrieved set.
5. Inject up to ~1000 chars of generated content for up to **5** topics —
   verbatim-mentioned first, then the highest-ranked retrieved ones — so a query
   that never names a topic exactly still gets rich content for what it matched.
6. Append a short KB hash so the cached context busts when topics change.

If the summarised context is still too thin, R42 can call the `lookup_topic`
tool to pull a topic's full description and learning content on demand.

The system prompt (`prompts.js`) is assembled as cacheable blocks: a stable
preamble (role, tasks, style, "answer only from the KB"), the KB context block, and
a per-turn tail with the user's name and admin/non-admin flag.

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## Proposing knowledge-graph edits

R42 may call `propose_graph_delta` with:
- `reason` — one sentence
- `topics` — **max 3**, each `{ id (kebab-case), label, type (concept|role|process), description }`
- `relations` — **max 5**, each `{ source, target, type (related_to|depends_on|part_of|executed_by) }`

`validateDelta` (`rag.js`) dedupes by topic id and case-folded label, rejects
relations with missing endpoints or self-references, and enforces the 3/5 caps.
Invalid deltas are dropped.

A confirmation chip appears inline:
- **Admin → Yes:** `kbStore.applyDelta` writes topics/relations to PocketBase immediately.
- **Non-admin → Yes:** `kbStore.appendSuggestion` queues a `pending` entry in
  `kb:suggestions` (localStorage) for admin review.

Admins review the queue in `src/components/admin/SuggestionsQueue.jsx` (approve
re-runs `applyDelta`; reject marks it rejected). `kbStore` dispatches
`respellion:kb-updated` after writes so the D3 graph and queue refresh.

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## Quiz integrity

`src/pages/Testen.jsx` sets `quiz:active:{userId}=true` on quiz start and clears it
on every non-quiz phase and on unmount, dispatching a `respellion:quiz-state` event.
`ChatLauncher` hides the FAB while this flag is set, so users cannot consult R42
mid-quiz. **Never bypass this.**
