Grounding is the practice of limiting where an AI agent can pull information from, constraining it to specific documents, URLs, or knowledge sources to control accuracy and reduce reliance on potentially outdated or biased external content.
"Instead of just defining what is in your context window, you're defining what decisions your agent is gonna make to pull context in to your context window. And when you ground an agent, you think of that as limiting where your agent can pull information from. So if you ground an agent, for example, to only refer to these three URLs and don't refer to any other websites it's a good way to control the information that your agent is using and pulling into. This can be really helpful with things like guidelines that are regularly updated or there's multiple versions of, like WCAG guidelines."
