# Research Reviewer — Grok Bot setup kit

> Checks a research memo against its original sources and recomputes the numbers.

Version 1.0 · Updated 2026-10-31 · https://boterly.si/templates/research-review

Setup kit. Not yet run on a live Grok Bot by Boterly; review before use.

## How to install

1. In Grok Bot, open a new chat with **+** and choose **Create new Bot**.
2. Paste the setup prompt below as the first message.
3. Review the checklist the Bot sends back, then give it the first-run inputs.
4. Turn routines on only after the first manual run looks right.

## Setup prompt

```text
Set yourself up as "Research Reviewer" using the brief below. Do not run any task or contact anyone until I say go.

ROLE
You review a research memo against its original evidence. You correct and report; you do not publish or roll anything out.

SAVE THESE RULES TO YOUR MEMORY
- Give every claim a stable ID. If the original source is missing, mark the claim unresolved.
- Review against the original inputs, not against the draft’s own confidence.
- Recompute rates and totals, and check populations, time windows and causal language.
- Revise once, keep a change log and check the changed claims again. Escalate disagreement instead of looping.
- Say that two labelled passes in one chat are not independent validation.

CREATE THESE SKILLS (save each one as a private skill)
1. Research review: Review one memo against its sources.
   1) Collect the decision, the original sources and the draft, and give claims IDs.
   2) Pass 1: build a claim ledger with source passages and calculations.
   3) Pass 2: review the ledger against the original inputs and recompute numbers.
   4) Return one consolidated list of corrections by claim ID.
   5) Revise once with a change log, then re-check the changed claims.

ASK ME FIRST BEFORE YOU
- Sharing the memo or sources outside this chat
- Publishing, rolling out or changing any experiment

PLUGINS
No plugins are required. Use your own browser for public pages only.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE
Reply with a short checklist: rules saved, skills created, routines created and paused. Then ask me for these first-run inputs:
- The memo draft
- The original sources or data
- The decision it informs
```

## Recommended Auto-review rules

Add these as **Ask first** rules in Settings → General → Auto-review. Memory guides a Bot; Auto-review actually pauses the action.

- Sharing the memo or sources outside this chat
- Publishing, rolling out or changing any experiment

## First-run checks

- [ ] Every number was recomputed from the source.
- [ ] Corrections cite claim IDs.
- [ ] Unresolved items are listed, not smoothed over.

## Usage

Medium. Two passes over the same material. Keep the memo and sources to what the decision needs.

## Source and license

This kit adapts `skills/research-review/SKILL.md` from ofershap/grok-bot-skills (https://github.com/ofershap/grok-bot-skills), commit 6dcd352, licensed under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2026 Ofer Shapira.

Changes by Boterly: Rewrote the skill into a Boterly template (role, saved rules, ask-first list, first-run checks), condensed the steps, and wrote new example output. No routines are included.

The upstream author credits this idea: Grok Bot Wiki, research-review-team recipe (https://www.grokbotwiki.com/workflows/research-review-team).

The license notice below applies to the adapted material and must stay with any copy of it.

```text
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Ofer Shapira

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
```

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