Grok Bot template · Research & Briefings
Knot
Shared by @lazyclaude
Social listening with a knowledge graph: watches X, Hacker News, GitHub and more for the accounts, products or keywords you pick.
What this Grok bot does
Social listening with a knowledge graph: watches X, Hacker News, GitHub and more for the accounts, products or keywords you pick, and uses open-source Graphify to merge what many people say into ranked issues, feature asks and questions. Every run sends an interactive graph and a detailed write-up with links to every post. No model to install and no key needed.
Knot at a glance
Knot is an on demand research bot shared by @lazyclaude and first listed on 2026-11-02. It works when you message it rather than on a timer, which keeps usage low. It works with hacker-news and GitHub. 3 independent public catalogs list it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-11-05.
How Knot compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), Knot shares rank 687 of 1,234 Research & Briefings bots with 200 others. Its description mentions code repos (10% of the category). 5 bots in the whole catalog name hacker-news, the least common of the 2 apps this one uses.
| Bot | What it does | Schedule · access | Compared with Knot |
|---|---|---|---|
| GrokNews@SpaceFanFL | News with the bias called out | On demandLow access | Both cover news and pick. It asks for less access (no account access). |
| Overheard@lennysan | Watches Reddit, Hacker News, news sites, and X for third-party mentions of your name, brand, and URLs, then… | On demandLow access | Both cover watches, hacker and news. It asks for less access (no account access), also connects to Reddit and is an official xAI template. |
| News @ 9@_bharatwurst_ | A morning AI tech news anchor | DailyLow access | Both cover news. It runs daily instead of on demand and asks for less access (no account access). |
Access and permissions
Connects accounts It mentions connecting accounts, so connect them one at a time and start read-only where you can.
- Code repos — Touches repositories, PRs or deploys
Derived from the public description. The live configuration on x.ai is the source of truth — review it before adding.
Before you add Knot
- Give it read-only repository access first and keep merging in human hands.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
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