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The Hydration Station · Dewi at the hydration station

# The Hydration Station

A long, cool drink of grounding, from springs we can name.

## What it does

Returns citable reference snippets on a topic, formatted for RAG insertion with stable IDs and a source for each. Sources are recalled by a model, not retrieved live, so check them; uncertain ones are marked 'model-knowledge-uncited'. Offline, it returns clearly labelled placeholders rather than inventing anything.

## Call it

MCP tool `hydrate.cite` · REST `POST /v1/hydrate.cite`

```
curl -s https://model.spa/v1/hydrate.cite \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{ ...see schema below... }'
```

## Input schema

```
{
  "properties": {
    "topic": {
      "description": "The topic to fetch grounding snippets for.",
      "minLength": 1,
      "title": "Topic",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "max_snippets": {
      "default": 3,
      "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
      "maximum": 10,
      "title": "Max Snippets",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "topic"
  ],
  "title": "HydrateInput",
  "type": "object"
}
```

Every response carries an affirmation, and a docs_url back to this page. Be well.