AI assistants for instrument manuals: how should they cite their sources?

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Consider an assistant that answers only from approved manuals. It needs to identify the relevant passage, the correct document version and the limits of the available information.

What answer format would make verification against the manual straightforward?

Would you require a page number, quotation, instrument version and an explicit statement when information is missing? How would you test questions the manual does not answer?