The main agent's search_knowledge_base tool runs the hybrid spine, renders
a <retrieved_context> of numbered [n] passages, and persists the registry.
KB subagent prompts teach citing [n] from <document view="full"> reads
(evidence.chunk_ids -> evidence.citations). Delete the now-unused
search->read highlighting hand-off: the kb_matched_chunk_ids state field,
its reducer default, the tool's _matched_chunk_ids writer, and the dead
KnowledgePriorityMiddleware writes.
Add the checkpointed CitationRegistry (load/merge helpers + state field)
and a lightweight CitationStateMiddleware so subagents can register into
the same conversation registry. Resolve [n] -> [citation:<payload>] at
stream finalize from the registry, polymorphically by source type.
Add a shared document_render package that renders sources as
<document view="excerpt|full"> blocks with server-assigned [n] passage
labels (KB locator {document_id, chunk_id}, web locator {url}). Wire the
KB read backend (kb_postgres) and read_file to the new renderer and drop
the legacy per-document XML renderer (document_xml, retrieved_context) and
the old chunk_index / matched="true" / <chunk id> read format.
Mirror search_threads visibility in the referenced-chat resolver: a
search-space owner can now @-mention legacy threads that predate creator
tracking (null created_by_id), instead of those being silently dropped.
Add the referenced_chat_context slice: models for the data shapes, a
fail-closed resolver that fetches mentioned threads and their visible
turns under the same access rules as thread search, and a transcript
renderer that emits a budgeted <referenced_chat_context> block. When a
chat exceeds the per-reference character budget, recent turns are kept
and any leftover budget is filled with the overflowing turn's tail, with
truncation markers signalling the cut.
Some OpenAI-compatible image backends (e.g. Xinference) return a relative
URL like /files/image.png in data[0].url instead of an absolute one.
Browsers cannot resolve these, causing images to fail to load.
Track the provider's api_base after resolving model config via to_litellm().
When the returned URL starts with "/", extract the origin (scheme + host + port)
from api_base and prepend it to produce a full absolute URL.
No behaviour change for providers that return absolute URLs (OpenAI, Azure, etc).
Closes#1496
