# Statements

Annotated passages on source articles: what a person said, and what others said about them.

Canonical: https://chikaraintel.com/docs/concepts/statements

## Annotation types

| Type | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `speech` | The person speaking about themselves or their plans |
| `feedback` | Another person or a body, such as a board, speaking about them |
| `recommendation` | A recommendation made about the person |
| `review` | An assessment of the person's performance |

## By and about

On a profile, statements split two ways. `by` holds what the person said. `about` holds what others said about them. [get_person](/docs/mcp/tools/get_person) returns both from the person's five most recent annotated articles.

## Repeated annual statements

Some statements recur every year in near-identical words. By default the profile articles endpoint folds a repeat from the same organisation, type and speaker into the most recent one, with a `history_count`. Pass `collapse=none` to get every one.

## Offsets

Each annotation carries start and end offsets into the article content, counted in UTF-16 code units. JavaScript string indices use the same units, so `content.slice(start, end)` returns the passage.

## Related

- https://chikaraintel.com/docs/concepts/people.md
- https://chikaraintel.com/docs/api/reference/articles/get-article.md
- https://chikaraintel.com/docs/mcp/tools/get_person.md