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