A fluent, confidently-worded answer with a broken citation is worse than a visible failure — this check exists to catch that specific failure mode before it reaches the requester.
Only surfaced for human attention when an answer repeatedly fails grounding checks for the same query pattern, indicating a systemic issue rather than a one-off.
Approve an answer whose claims it cannot actually trace to a cited passage, regardless of how plausible the claim reads.
A generated answer and its cited chunks
A grounding_confidence score attached to the Generated Answer, and suppression of answers below a configured threshold
The domain supports the pattern and no vendor in this model sells it. That is a statement about the market rather than about the pattern; v_agent_gaps lists them.