answer - Locus

answer composes a short answer to a clinical question — grounded only in the indexed recommendations, with citations. Endpoint: POST /v1/answer · MCP tool: answer

Pipeline

find sources → select the most relevant → compose a cited answer

When no source covers the question, answer returns a fixed sentence stating the information is not in the indexed recommendations — it does not invent.

Request

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Free-text clinical question (French).
`source_ids`	int[]	Optional. Restrict retrieval to specific sources.

Response

{
  "query": "Quelle antibioprophylaxie pour une chirurgie colorectale ?",
  "reformulated_question": "Antibioprophylaxie recommandée en chirurgie colorectale",
  "answer": "Céfazoline en dose unique préopératoire...",
  "sources": [
    {
      "reco_id": 900,
      "reco_title": "Chirurgie colorectale",
      "source_name": "SFAR",
      "deep_link": "https://.../14853.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "tokens_in": 1200,
  "tokens_out": 90
}

Citations are a separate array (no inline markers). Each entry is a recommendation actually used, deduplicated, with its deep_link.

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