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Citation Tracking
Citation tracking
Auto track citations PRO is the background watchman of your conversations: with it on, every link a response cites is tracked as the response arrives, and its live status is checked before you have thought to ask. This page covers the switch itself: where it lives, what on and off mean, and when each earns its keep. The behaviour it switches, the status strip, the link table, and the analysis beside them, is canonical in citation and hallucination analysis.
Prerequisites:
- Signed in: Settings belong to your account. See sign in to the extension.
- A PRO or MAX plan: Auto track citations is a PRO feature, included in MAX. On the free plan the toggle carries its upgrade path to pricing.
- The two surfaces: Where settings live is covered in settings interfaces.
The switch#
Auto track citations lives in both surfaces, the pop-up's PREFERENCES and the Settings tab, so it flips mid-work like the other everyday toggles.
- On: Cited links in responses are tracked as they arrive. A status strip appears under the assistant card in the sidebar's Collect tab, counting the detected links and their check results, with the full link table one expand away.
- Off: No tracking runs and no strip appears. Responses arrive unexamined, and the on-demand analysis stays available when you want a specific response checked.
The change applies as you work, from the next response on, no reload needed.
Tracking and the analysis are different checks#
The toggle governs the first of two layers, and keeping them apart keeps expectations right:
- Auto tracking asks: are the cited links alive? Background, automatic, and a matter of plan access, not credits: tracking never draws on your pool.
- The analysis asks: do the sources say what the response claims? On-demand, run from the assistant card, and an AI action with a credit cost.
A live link does not make a claim true; that is the analysis's territory. Both layers, end to end, are covered in citation and hallucination analysis.
When on, when off#
- On is the default for research: Any work where responses cite sources that will reach a deliverable deserves the watchman: a dead link surfaces the moment it arrives, not the night before publication.
- Off for the sessions that do not need it: Brainstorming, drafting, and casual chats cite little and need no strip under every card. Flip it off in the pop-up, and the checks stop until wanted.
FAQ#
Does auto tracking use AI credits?+
No. It is a PRO plan feature, which is plan access, not a credit cost. The credit action is the on-demand analysis. See Enhance.
Does turning it off disable the analysis?+
No. The two are separate: tracking is the background layer this toggle governs, and Citation and hallucination analysis stays available on any assistant card regardless.
Where does the tracking show?+
Under the assistant card in the Collect tab: the status strip with its counts, expanding into the link table. See citation and hallucination analysis.
If I turn it on mid-conversation, are earlier responses checked?+
Tracking applies from the next response on. For a response that arrived before the switch, run the analysis on its card; the run includes the link table.
Does it work the same on claude.ai?+
Yes. One toggle governs both platforms, and the tracking behaves identically on chatgpt.com and claude.ai.