Grounding Inspector executes queries across Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI using their native web-search tools to identify selected versus unselected sources and recovers the underlying grounding snippets seen by each model.

sequenceDiagram
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    actor User
    participant GI as Grounding Inspector
    participant Model as LLM Provider
    participant Target as Source Web Pages

    User->>GI: Submit query and location
    GI->>Model: Execute grounded search request
    Model->>Target: Retrieve search results and snippets
    Target-->>Model: Return source documents
    Model-->>GI: Return response, citations, and metadata
    GI->>GI: Classify selected vs unselected sources
    GI->>GI: Extract and match passage snippets
    GI-->>User: Display answer, citation breakdown, and snippets