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  **Grounding** — when a research assistant is grounded, its responses are
  anchored in a specific set of source documents (typically your own) rather
  than general chat, so what it produces can be traced back to those sources.
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# \*\*grounding\*\*

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## Definition

**Grounding** — when a research assistant is grounded, its responses are anchored in a specific set of source documents (typically your own) rather than general chat, so what it produces can be traced back to those sources.

In this channel's material, **grounding** describes a property of research assistants: a tool is *grounded* when it works against a set of **your own documents** rather than open-ended chat alone. The topic on reading and research with AI draws the line between a plain chat, a **notebook-style research assistant grounded in your own documents**, and hands-on exploratory tools — and asks you to recognize where each approach falls short.