Build a Read-Only X Research Desk with Grok Bot: Two-Bot Morning Brief & Fact-Check

Input: X watchlists & search terms → Process: layered sources + deduplication + two-bot split → Output: phone-optimized daily research brief

Who

Researchers or content curators who need to track X efficiently and reduce noise

You get

One-page phone-readable brief every day at 8:19 AM ET with top item, draft ideas, viral analysis, open-source finds, and bookmark review

You need

Grok Bot

Steps

1. Set up three layered source groups

   Create three source groups in Grok Bot that never mix: 1. Brief sources: 15 accounts plus a set of searches, picked from your own bookmarks. Scored on signal, relevance, freshness, and duplication. Purpose: stay informed. 2. Virality watchlist: 13 accounts (author's current count) studied for hooks, not news. Originals only, 5K+ views to count, starred at 10K. 3. Analytics: your own posts only, compared against your rolling baseline. Each group has its own metrics. Mixing them leads to taking news from accounts that are only good at going viral.

2. Build memory and deduplication system

   Create two persistent files for the bots to read and write: - seen.md: every link already reported, so nothing repeats. - open-source.csv: every repo found, with date, area, repo link, source post, and one line on why. Every Friday, re-score every source and drop what's gone stale or noisy, within fixed caps.

3. Configure the two-bot split

   Set up two Grok Bots with clear roles and timing: - X Brief: runs every morning at 8:19 AM ET and writes the brief. - X Researcher: digs overnight on whatever the brief flagged and writes a findings file. The morning run reads that file first. The second bot is the fact-checker. Author's example: the fake paper title "The End of Harness Engineering" showed up in the brief as a correction, not a headline.

4. Define the phone brief format

   Organize the brief in this order, built for phone reading: 1. The one thing: the single item that matters most today. 2. Drafts: post ideas that borrow that day's viral hooks, with the hook named. 3. What worked: originals from the watchlist at 5K+ views, starred at 10K. 4. The brief: the top 3 per theme. 5. Open source: new repos with links. 6. Bookmarks from the last 7 days.

5. Set read-only rules and boundaries

   Enforce these rules strictly: - Read-only on X: never post, reply, or like. Drafts are drafts. - Every number comes from a real post; if something can't be verified, say so. - A claim that only comes from someone's own post is labeled as theirs. - Money signals go to the Entrepreneurship Lead bot, not the brief. Boundaries: - CAN: read a fixed watch list and searches every morning; remember what it already showed you; catch renamed papers and recycled stories; tell you which hooks are working this week. - CANNOT: read posts you liked (X connector has no liked-posts tool); post for you; know anything it wasn't pointed at.

No prompt needed — just follow the steps.