Grounding.md

GROUNDING.md is a markdown file that lists URLs designated as authoritative sources for agent grounding within a development project. The listed sources include official documentation, canonical specifications, and vendor reference pages. The file is part of the AI Dev Workspace Primitives index, a collection of workspace-level building blocks for AI-assisted development.

The project addresses the problem of agents relying on general web search when retrieving external context. By declaring which sources to trust and prefer, the whitelist lets an agent direct its fetches toward vetted references rather than arbitrary search results. The approach is implemented as plain markdown with no code dependencies, making it readable by both humans and agents and simple to version alongside the rest of a repository.

The file is most relevant to developers who use AI coding agents on projects that depend on specific vendor APIs, frameworks, or standards, and who want more consistent and verifiable context retrieval. It may also suit teams establishing shared conventions for how agents should source information within a codebase.