# Conversations & citations
Source: https://nordvec.com/docs/guides/concepts/conversations

A conversation is a chat grounded in your documents, where every answer is traced to its source.

A **conversation** is a chat grounded in your documents. You ask a question,
Nordvec retrieves the relevant passages, and it answers from them, citing the
documents it used. If the documents do not support an answer, it says so rather
than guessing.

## Citations are the point [#citations-are-the-point]

Every answer carries the sources it was built from. This is deliberate: a RAG
answer you cannot trace is a liability, not a feature. The citations let a human
jump to the exact document a claim came from and confirm it, which is exactly
what regulated and high-stakes work needs.

<Callout>
Answers are generated by AI. Citations are what make them verifiable, not just
plausible.
</Callout>

## Conversations belong to a person [#conversations-belong-to-a-person]

A conversation is owned by the signed-in person who started it, so its
endpoints answer to a **session**, never to an API key. A key is its own
principal with no chat history of its own; see
[Authentication](/docs/guides/authentication).

With a session you can:

- **Create** a conversation (`POST /conversations`).
- **List** and **search** your conversations (`GET /conversations`,
  `GET /conversations/search`).
- **Retrieve** a conversation with its recent messages
  (`GET /conversations/{id}`), and page back through older history
  (`GET /conversations/{id}/messages`).
- **List the documents** a conversation has drawn on
  (`GET /conversations/{id}/documents`).

See the [API reference](/docs/api) for the exact request and response shapes.

## Feedback [#feedback]

You can submit feedback on an answer and on the passages that were retrieved.
That signal is used to improve retrieval quality over time.