A careful assistant for filing and tracking your own FOIA and Privacy Act requests to U.S.
What this Grok bot does
Federal agencies: drafts signed letters, logs every filing and reply, watches deadlines, and prepares follow-ups and appeals. Built from the real-world FOIA work of Paul Klenk (@paulklenk on X).
FOIA Bot at a glance
FOIA Bot is an on demand coding bot shared by @SkillsByRole and first listed on 2026-11-06. It works when you message it rather than on a timer, which keeps usage low. 2 independent public catalogs list it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-11-05.
How FOIA Bot compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), FOIA Bot shares rank 559 of 703 Coding & Shipping bots with 42 others. @SkillsByRole has shared 4 bots here, most often teams bots (2).
| Bot | What it does | Schedule · access | Compared with FOIA Bot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console Indexer@AunySillyMe | Keeps your website's pages indexed in Google | DailyConnects accounts | Both cover requests. It runs daily instead of on demand and asks for more access (web browsing, code repos). |
| PC Voice Control Assistant@ZGMF_X31S | A wake-word voice assistant that lets you control your Windows PC by voice, even from bed | On demandLow access | Both cover assistant. Same schedule and access level. |
| Phone Assistant@OsheaDavis | An AI phone line desk bot for your own Twilio number | WeeklyConnects accounts | Both cover assistant. It runs weekly instead of on demand, asks for more access (chat apps) and also connects to twilio. |
Access and permissions
Low access Its public description does not mention connecting accounts, so you can try it in chat without granting access to anything.
No account access mentioned in the public description.
Derived from the public description. The live configuration on x.ai is the source of truth — review it before adding.
Before you add FOIA Bot
- Give review bots read-only repo access; let humans merge.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
Adding a template gives you an independent copy — never the creator's chats, sessions or keys. How adding a Grok Bot template works.
Another Grok bot named “FOIA Bot”
Different creators, different bots — compare what each one does before you pick.
- FOIA Bot by @JoshWalkos — Files and tracks FOIA and state open-records requests for journalists and researchers, and builds a searchable archive of the records that come back.
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