Grok Deep Research

Run a bounded, iterative research loop with native xAI Grok Build CLI and a self-contained research brief.

Contract

The research runtime is isolated from ambient instructions, skills, plugins, hooks, memories, files, MCP servers, and unrelated environment variables. It receives the brief, selected provider, and only the minimum auth/network runtime environment.
Native Grok web search/fetch is the default. Firecrawl is opt-in and is the only MCP exposed in that mode.
Prefer owner-controlled primary sources. Use secondary sources for discovery, then trace material claims to the organisation that owns the fact.
Cite material claims inline. Distinguish observed facts, inference, disagreement, uncertainty, web-researchable gaps, and external gaps.
A finite iteration cap always applies: 6 by default. done requires zero web-researchable gaps; otherwise the result is capped.
Deliver report.md, iterations.jsonl, and run.json only after wrapper validation succeeds.

command -v grok >/dev/null 2>&1 && GROK=grok || GROK="$HOME/.grok/bin/grok"
$GROK --version || echo "GROK: missing"