Grok Bot template · Research & Briefings
X Brief
Shared by community
Turns the accounts and topics you pick on X into one short daily brief. Reads your X connection or handles you paste, and never posts on your behalf
What this Grok bot does
Turns the accounts and topics you pick on X into one short daily brief. Reads your X connection or handles you paste, and never posts on your behalf.
X Brief at a glance
X Brief is a daily research bot shared by community and first listed on 2026-10-09. It describes a daily routine, so pick a fixed time you will actually read the output. It works with X (Twitter). It is one of xAI's own templates in the official Grok Bot marketplace. 3 independent public catalogs list it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-10-20.
How X Brief compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), X Brief shares rank 26 of 1,234 Research & Briefings bots with 4 others. It is one of 198 bots in the category (16%) that run on a daily schedule. Its description mentions publishing (5% of the category). 314 bots in the whole catalog name X (Twitter).
| Bot | What it does | Schedule · access | Compared with X Brief |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily X Brief@Hoopss | A short morning brief on the topics and accounts you pick on X, with why each story matters and a link to… | DailyLow access | Both cover brief, short, topics and accounts. It asks for less access (no account access). |
| Info Drop@matchayuma | Morning news roundup | DailyLow access | Both cover short, topics, pick and posts. It asks for less access (no account access). |
| X@TylerNishida | Reads X for you and sends short digests on the topics you pick, on your schedule, so you scroll less | On demandConnects accounts | Both cover reads, short, topics and pick. It runs on demand instead of daily and asks for less access (calendar). |
Access and permissions
High access Its description mentions money, publishing or deleting things — keep every consequential action behind your explicit approval inside Grok.
- Publishing — Can post or publish publicly
Derived from the public description. The live configuration on x.ai is the source of truth — review it before adding.
Before you add X Brief
- Keep posting behind an approval step until you have read a week of its drafts.
- Run it on demand for a few days before you switch on its daily routine.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
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Another Grok bot named “X Brief”
Different creators, different bots — compare what each one does before you pick.
- X Brief by @daniel_mac8 — Learns what you pay attention to from your own posts, then watches that beat