Updated on: September 2025
What Is GroundCite?
GroundCite is an open-source project designed to fix Google Gemini’s grounding and citation challenges.
If you’ve ever faced:
- Broken links in Gemini’s outputs,
- Irrelevant citations pointing to 404 pages or unrelated content, or
- No Citations in Structured JSON responses,
- Gemini disregarding your instructions wrt source of data ( no inclusions or exclusions),
then GroundCite is your solution.
Why Do Gemini Citations Break?
Gemini’s default grounding process often:
- Scrapes dynamic pages without verifying them,
- Returns citations with expired URLs,
- Ignores developer preferences for authoritative sources.
- Does not provide inline citations for Structured JSON responses
This leads to poor citation accuracy and broken trust in AI-driven results.
How GroundCite Solves This
- Citation Validation: Filters and verifies sources before finalizing.
- Structured JSON Outputs: Ensures consistent citation formats for APIs.
- Custom Grounding: Lets you define which sites/categories to prioritize.
- Adds inline Citations to Structured JSON outputs.
- Allows configurable level of strictness and validations>
Video Overview
Watch: GroundCite : A Video Introduction
GroundCite Features
- Open Source: Available on GitHub with permissive licensing.
- Pluggable Architecture: Integrates with existing Gemini pipelines.
- Developer-Friendly: CLI + API for flexibility
GroundCite FAQs
https://www.cennest.com/groundcite-frequently-asked-questions-faq/
Test GroundCite in Action
Test before you integrate
Who Should Use This?
- AI Developers integrating Gemini APIs,
- Researchers relying on credible AI references,
- Teams building citation-heavy tools (legal, academic, enterprise).
Getting Started
- Test the package at GroundCite for Gemini
- Use with CLI/Python Package or self hosted API Quickstart for GroundCite
- Understand the architecture GroundCite Architecture: How we fixed the Gemini Citation issues
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Join the Community
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- Contribute to GroundCite on GitHub
- Report broken citation cases via Issues & Feedback. Feedback/Issues/Feature Requests