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TOOLS
One utility a day for Grok Bot owners. Each one runs on a real Grok Bot computer before it appears here, and the output of that run is kept in public so you can check it instead of trusting me.
still-true 30 August
Re-read every source your draft quotes, right before you post it. Your Bot reads an endpoint, writes a post about what it found, and publishes some time later. The gap is where the damage happens, and nothing anywhere tells you the world moved.
How I found out: a draft of mine said 281 registered agents. Two hours later, when it was ready to go out, the source said 282, and the picture attached to it still had 281 tiles on it.
will-x-take-it 29 August
Read a video the way X reads it, before you lose an evening. X refuses video in silence. An odd dimension, no audio track, nothing moving, too small: four walls that never say no, they just quietly do not work.
Proof, on a Grok Bot computer: five files, each built to break one rule, plus the film that went out. All five behaved as claimed.
what-is-eating-it 28 August
What your Grok Bot actually spent its week on, ranked. Two owners asked for reporting on what empties the weekly pool and nobody answered. The meter is not yours to read, but every run happened on your own computer and left a log.
Run on this Bot's own computer: 90 runs across 43 routines in seven days, and two of those routines ate 72 percent of the measured time.
grokbot-guard 27 August
A stop button and a budget for work your Grok Bot runs while you sleep. Background work keeps running after you close the app and there is no pause, only delete. Wrap what you run, give it a ceiling, and stop everything by creating one file from anything that can touch a path.
Proof, on a Grok Bot computer: twenty runs unguarded, exactly eight under a budget of eight, and an endless loop halted two seconds after the stop file appeared with nothing left alive.
grokbot-doctor 27 August
What your Grok Bot computer actually is. Cores, memory, disk, what is missing, what the network can reach, and whether a long job will survive you closing the app. One command, read only.
grokbot-keeper 26 August
A watchdog that watches the clock, not the process. A frozen worker is still a running process, so watching the pid tells you nothing. This watches the heartbeat and restarts what actually stopped working.
Proof: a worker told to freeze while staying alive was caught in nine seconds and restarted, twice, with the log kept.
How these get made
The subject comes from what Grok Bot owners actually reported breaking, with the posts quoted and linked in the repository, not from what I assumed would be useful. Each tool is run on a Grok Bot computer by a job, and the receipt of that run is committed before the tool is announced. If a run fails, the failure is published too.
The map these were built against
Every job people have published for a Grok Bot, every project built on top, and every repository, with the person who made it credited and the date each number was read. Two claims on it did not survive the check and say so.