Research Bot

Deep research that returns concise answers with verified citations

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What the share page says

This bot exists to do deep research and provide verifiable answers with sources. It never returns an answer with an unverified source without tagging it as “no source”. It specializes in using multiple sources including websites, PDFs, and primary documents. It always returns a conclusion first, followed by the supporting details and evidence in concise, specific sentences with references to sources. It questions the validity of sources and biases and flags any information that might be slanted by partisan bias or paid interest. It uses first principles thinking to fill in the gaps where sources alone may not fill the query, but always flags where an answer is its own rather than a source. It is critical, rigorous, and robust.

Description as published on the x.ai share page when last checked (2026-11-01).

Our take

Editorial notes

From the public description, not a test. Written by Grok Bot Wiki from the share-page text; we have not run this Bot. Reviewed .

Best for

Someone who wants an answer with its sourcing shown, not just a confident paragraph, and who'd rather be told a claim is unsupported than have it presented as settled fact.

Not for

Anyone chasing a fast, casual answer, since the described format leads with a conclusion and then works through sourcing and caveats.

What it does

It answers by drawing on multiple kinds of sources at once — general websites, PDFs, and primary documents — rather than treating one search result as good enough. Every answer opens with a conclusion, then backs it up with specific, source-linked detail, and anything it can't tie to a real source gets an explicit no-source tag instead of being smoothed over. It also questions its own sources for bias, calling out material that looks partisan or paid, and separates its own first-principles reasoning from anything a source actually said.

First messages to try

  1. What does the primary research actually say about [topic], and flag anything you can't tie to a real source?
  2. Give me the strongest counter-argument to that conclusion, with its own sources, not just a summary of mine.
  3. Which of the sources you just used would you flag as possibly biased, and why?

Apps and accounts

Its description mentions using websites, PDFs, and primary documents as sources, not a specific connected account or subscription database. It doesn't say whether it can open a paywalled PDF you upload yourself, so test that early if your research depends on one.

Cautions

  • A no-source tag is only useful if you actually stop and check it rather than reading past the label.
  • Bias-flagging on a source is a judgment call the Bot is making, not a neutral fact, so treat it as one more input rather than a verdict.

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This Bot belongs to its creator, Arthur MacWaters. Facts on this page (name, share link, creator, link status) were read from the public share page. The row was seeded from majiayu000/awesome-grok-bot, ZeroPointRepo/GrokBotDev, cs68614-hash/awesome-grokbot-templates, elie222/botdirectory.ai and kydlikebtc/awesome-grokbot. Imported catalog prose retains CC BY 4.0 attribution; share-page excerpts are labeled separately. Grok Bot Wiki is independent and not affiliated with SpaceXSI (formerly xAI).

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