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📖What it means
Wiring an agent so it answers from LIVE data rather than from memory or guesswork. An agent that guesses about something it owns is not under-informed — it is un-grounded, and that is a defect in the wiring.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Agent self-knowledge
Grounding is answering from live data generally; self-knowledge is specifically answering about YOURSELF.
Not: Memory
Grounding reads current sources; memory recalls what was seen before.
🗣️Also called
data wiringlive sourcesanswering from data