grok-search

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name: grok-search description: Search the web or X/Twitter using xAI Grok server-side tools (web_search, x_search) via the xAI Responses API. Use when you need tweets/threads/users from X, want Grok as an alternative to Brave, or you need structured JSON + citations. homepage: https://docs.x.ai/docs/guides/tools/search-tools triggers: ["grok", "xai", "search x", "search twitter", "find tweets", "x search", "twitter search", "web_search", "x_search"] metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"🔎","requires":{"bins":["node"],"env":["XAI_API_KEY"]},"primaryEnv":"XAI_API_KEY"}}

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Run xAI Grok locally via bundled scripts (search + chat + model listing). Default output for search is *pretty JSON* (agent-friendly) with citations.

API key

The script looks for an xAI API key in this order:

XAI_API_KEY env var

~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json → env.XAI_API_KEY

~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json → skills.entries["grok-search"].apiKey

fallback: skills.entries["search-x"].apiKey or skills.entries.xai.apiKey

Run

Use {baseDir} so the command works regardless of workspace layout.

Search

Web search (JSON):

- node {baseDir}/scripts/grok_search.mjs "" --web

X/Twitter search (JSON):

- node {baseDir}/scripts/grok_search.mjs "" --x

Chat

Chat (text):

- node {baseDir}/scripts/chat.mjs ""

Chat (vision):

- node {baseDir}/scripts/chat.mjs --image /path/to/image.jpg ""

Models

List models:

- node {baseDir}/scripts/models.mjs

Useful flags

Output:

--links-only print just citation URLs

--text hide the citations section in pretty output

--raw include the raw Responses API payload on stderr (debug)

Common:

--max limit results (default 8)

--model (default grok-4-1-fast)

X-only filters (server-side via x_search tool params):

--days (e.g. 7)

--from YYYY-MM-DD / --to YYYY-MM-DD

--handles @a,@b (limit to these handles)

--exclude @bots,@spam (exclude handles)

Output shape (JSON)

{
  "query": "...",
  "mode": "web" | "x",
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "...",
      "url": "...",
      "snippet": "...",
      "author": "...",
      "posted_at": "..."
    }
  ],
  "citations": ["https://..."]
}

Notes

citations are merged/validated from xAI response annotations where possible (more reliable than trusting the model’s JSON blindly).

Prefer --x for tweets/threads, --web for general research.

citations are merged/validated from xAI response annotations where possible (more reliable than trusting the model’s JSON blindly).

Prefer --x for tweets/threads, --web for general research.