AI agents for research

Agents that watch Reddit, X, HN, SEO data and trends and send you digests. Each entry has a copy-paste prompt, difficulty, setup time and known pitfalls.

Use cases

ResearchReddit

Schedule Reddit, email and Search Console digests

Isolated cron jobs scan Reddit, check inboxes, and pull Google Search Console data, then send summaries to Telegram.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~20 min per job (source)
  • Evidence Strong evidence
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-10

Scrape X bookmarks into a Notion database every few hours

Bookmarks pile up and get forgotten. Jeston Lu built a Grok Bot that scrapes saved X posts every 6 hours and auto-categorizes them into a Notion database so the archive stays searchable.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Strong evidence
Grok BotSource-linked
ResearchX · 2026-03

Build a NotebookLM + Obsidian research vault

Claude Code sends a pile of videos, PDFs and articles through NotebookLM and turns the output into linked Obsidian notes covering scenarios, actors and probabilities.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Claude CodeSource-linked
ResearchX · 2025-07

Comet vs ChatGPT Agent vs Claude: research to Notion

Same research-and-save task given to three agents. Comet used the existing in-browser Notion session and created the note in one go.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Some evidence
ChatGPT AgentPerplexity CometClaudeSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchWeb

Learn any topic as a 2-minute audio course with citations

A free Claude Code skill researches a topic on the web and builds about 12 two-minute audio lessons with two hosts, a one-screen card per lesson and links to every source. A checker refuses lessons that cite pages it didn't read.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Claude CodeSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-09

Nightly fact-check your own X posts and brief a chief of staff

Phil Metzger asked Grok Bot to, every night after 2am, read all posts and replies by @drphiltill for the prior 24 hours, note topics, run a literature review on anything important, and tell a “chief of staff” bot whether to brief corrections, missing material, or better arguments. He reports one highly valuable correction so far; the prompt screenshot is in the post.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Grok BotSource-linked
ResearchX · 2026-10

4 Agents, 1 Memory: Keep Grok Bot, Muse, Dots and Hermes in One Obsidian Vault

A user moved his bots' memory into an Obsidian vault so switching agents doesn't mean starting over. Grok Bot, Meta Muse, ChatGPT Dots and Hermes bots keep memory, logs and workflows in the same plain files he owns. Each bot reads the relevant files before answering and saves new information there (his health bot updates the health folder), and dated logs keep the history. A new agent gets pointed at the same vault with the same instructions.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Grok BotMeta MuseChatGPT DotsHermes AgentSource-linked
ResearchReddit

Daily Reddit digest that learns your taste

Every day at 5pm it sends the top posts from chosen subreddits, asks whether you liked them, and saves your preferences as rules.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendlyNeeds verification
ResearchWeb

Earnings-season tracker with one-shot crons

Every Sunday it posts the week's tech earnings calendar. You pick companies, it schedules a job per report, and posts beat/miss, EPS, guidance and AI highlights.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
ResearchWeb

Pre-build idea validator

Before coding anything, it scans GitHub, HN, npm, PyPI and Product Hunt for competitors and stops if the space is crowded.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linkedBeginner-friendlyNeeds verification
ResearchWeb

Drop-a-link personal knowledge base (RAG)

Drop URLs, tweets, YouTube links or PDFs in chat to ingest them, then ask questions and get ranked excerpts with sources. Other workflows query it too.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
ResearchWeb

Polymarket paper-trading autopilot

Paper trades on prediction markets with backtesting, strategy analysis and daily P&L reports. No real money.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawSource-linked
ResearchWeb

YouTube niche research MCP + subagent report

An MCP server gets the top 10 niche videos with engagement metrics and thumbnails, then hands off to one subagent that writes a research report to disk.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Claude CodeSource-linked
ResearchWeb

Answer hard questions with a one-page diagram instead of a wall of text

An agent skill makes the coding agent answer complex questions as a single offline HTML page with diagrams. The author says the model writes about 1/8 of the tokens it would need to hand-write the HTML.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Claude CodeCursorCodexSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchWeb

Make an interactive, sourced biology figure from a question

Ask a biology question, like how two drugs act differently at a dopamine synapse, and a Claude Code skill builds a standalone interactive page with real structures, a toggleable mechanism and a citation for every number.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Claude CodeSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchWeb

Build a cited competitive intelligence brief on public companies

A tutorial agent picks a peer set for a public company, pulls SEC filings, news and market signals, extracts competitive moves into a table, and writes a briefing with a citation for every claim.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Custom agentSource-linkedNeeds verification
ResearchWeb

Get a morning AI news brief that stays quiet on slow days

Every weekday at 8am an n8n workflow searches the day's AI news, scores each article for materiality at about $0.00004 apiece, and posts one cited brief per topic to Slack. Topics with no real news get no post; a morning costs 1-4 cents.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
n8nSource-linkedNeeds verification
ResearchWeb

Collect public Telegram channel posts into Google Sheets

An n8n workflow collects public Telegram channel posts into a sheet for a news tracker, matching rows by post ID so a failed import can be retried without duplicates: importing 34 posts twice left 34 rows.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
n8nSource-linkedNeeds verification
ResearchX · 2026-09

Scout founder events in Dubai and send a ranked shortlist

A dedicated Grok Bot checks Eventbrite, Luma, Meetup, LinkedIn and similar listings for founder events in Dubai, ranks them by the author’s preferences and calendar availability, and sends a shortlist for confirmation. The author credits it with getting them to Startup Valley and suggests the same pattern for cheap flights, open roles, and promotions.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-10

Get a weekday morning X mentions and topic digest

Grok Bot sends a morning rundown of the most relevant X mentions, who is talking about the author’s apps, and important posts on topics of interest (local AI). The author published a read-only template.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-10

Draft a morning Tesla and SpaceX digest from X

After native X tools landed for Grok Bot, one user has it scan X every morning for Tesla and SpaceX posts, draft a digest, and fact-check material before they reply.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-08

Daily deduplicated research digest

A user had Grok Bot research a topic, catalog the findings, make sure nothing is duplicated, and send the results every morning — running in the cloud with their own computer off.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-10

Daily polling scorecard with charts

A user had Grok Bot build and run a daily midterm polling scorecard that arrives every morning with charts and footnotes.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-10

Tag your bot under a post to turn it into a task

Tag your bot under any post on X and your Grok Bot picks up the job — a digest for a long thread, or a price-drop watch for a product post.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly
ResearchX · 2026-09

Score a house six ways before you fall for it

A US real estate investor shares a Grok Bot template built for their own underwriting: paste an address or a Zillow, Redfin or Realtor link and it scores the house for rent-by-the-room, long-term, mid-term and short-term rental, flip and BRRRR, with a short scorecard saying which fits.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linked
ResearchX · 2026-10

Get a morning brief researching everyone you're meeting today

A user shares his top Grok Bot use: every morning it sends him a deep dive into his day, with research on all the people he's meeting and a full report on his life and business.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly

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