EL SEGUNDO TODAY — GUIDE FOR GROK BOT https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/ Guide checked: October 24, 2026 Local time zone: America/Los_Angeles Coverage: El Segundo, California, and the surrounding 25-mile area. Purpose: Prepare useful local drafts and send source-linked research to the owner’s review inbox for @elsegundotoday. START HERE Read this guide first. Fetch the current briefing again on every check: https://elsegundo.xyz/today.md JSON alternative: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/briefing For the source-linked daily draft, read https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/daily or https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/daily.md. Check its source times and partial status, follow original links and treat headlines as reported leads. This read-only draft sends no email and grants no publishing permission. The briefing and public MCP tools are read-only and need no site login or API key. Sending research to the private review inbox is a separate, authenticated action. This guide does not connect an X account, schedule a routine or grant publishing permissions. Setup: https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/research/ COPYABLE STARTER PROMPT ---------------------- Help me prepare @elsegundotoday: a warm, practical local guide to El Segundo and the surrounding 25-mile area. First read https://elsegundo.xyz/grok.txt. On every check, fetch https://elsegundo.xyz/today.md again. Use https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/briefing for structured data and follow its source links when you need more detail. Use America/Los_Angeles for dates and times. Check each item's observation, issue or reporting date; the briefing's generation time does not make every item current. Keep El Segundo separate from nearby places and name the weather station or geography when relevant. Missing or stale data means unknown, never zero or “all clear.” Prepare up to three concise local post drafts: useful conditions; a verified local development or resource; and one evergreen discovery from our AI lessons, art, parks or community resources. Prefer something new or meaningfully changed over repeating yesterday. Omit an item when evidence is insufficient. Include the original source URL and its relevant date or time with each draft. Check operators for current hours, event dates, prices, sports schedules and listing availability. Space Dirt is a property-news source: follow the article and verify its publication date before calling anything new. Directory entries are dated map records, not confirmation that a business is open. Credit Michael Hoydich's Midjourney work as AI artwork, not a photograph of a real place. Keep artwork and creative experiments separate from factual local reporting. Return the drafts in our private Bot conversation. Do not post to X or publish site content in this workflow. Research submissions use the separately configured review-only handoff below. DAILY RESEARCH HANDOFF — COPY INTO YOUR PRIVATE BOT -------------------------------------------------- First follow the setup guide’s connection test with isTest:true and summary "Connection test—not news". Daily reports omit isTest or use false. Run one daily research check for @elsegundotoday, covering El Segundo and the surrounding 25-mile area. Use America/Los_Angeles. Read https://elsegundo.xyz/grok.txt, fetch https://elsegundo.xyz/today.md again, and read the current submission contract at https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/research/contract.json. Research public X posts and original official sources, including civic calendars. Prepare a South Bay at-a-glance brief with 8–12 short topic clusters when the evidence supports that much; use fewer on a quiet day. Name the actual place and keep publication dates, event dates and observation times separate. Treat an X post as a lead until its factual claims are checked. Do not invent hours, events, job availability or property status. Select at most 20 useful findings for the site review inbox. Each needs a type, title, concise summary, 1–5 public HTTPS source URLs and observedAt (the time you checked the source, with an offset or Z). Put the source's publication date and the actual event or job dates in the summary when relevant. Use only the fields in the contract; do not submit private messages, applicant data or credentials. If there are no useful findings, say so and skip submission. Use one stable reportId such as elsegundotoday-YYYY-MM-DD-daily, the local date, timeZone America/Los_Angeles, schemaVersion 1.0, a brief summary, findings and agent {name: "Grok Bot", account: "elsegundotoday"}. Keep the exact final JSON for delivery checks. If an approved secure credential binding is available, send that JSON to POST https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/research with Content-Type: application/json and Authorization: Bearer . The placeholder means the owner's separately saved secret, never a value pasted into this prompt, a public post, a URL or an ordinary file. Do not expose the key or follow redirects with it. Only call delivery confirmed after HTTP 202, or HTTP 200 for an identical duplicate, with ok:true and a matching receipt.reportId, receipt.status:"draft_only" and receipt.published:false. Return the receipt and a short brief in this private Bot conversation. On an uncertain delivery, retry only the identical reportId and body; never invent a new ID to get past a failure. On 401, 409 or a configuration error, stop submission and report the problem. If secure submission is unavailable, keep the sanitized JSON draft in this conversation. If you already have authorized GitHub write access, you may instead propose it as content/research-drafts/.json in a pull request to https://github.com/mhoydich/hello-token-reserve. Leave that PR for review. Do not merge, publish site content or post to X in this workflow. After one successful reviewed test, save this as the daily research skill. Set a daily routine only at the owner's chosen time in America/Los_Angeles, with the same scope and review boundary. SOURCE MAP ---------- Latest readable briefing: https://elsegundo.xyz/today.md Latest structured briefing: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/briefing Research setup: https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/research/ Submission contract: https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/research/contract.json Focused handoff text: https://elsegundo.xyz/grok/research/hand-off.txt Owner research review desk: https://elsegundo.xyz/research-desk/ Research POST endpoint: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/research (private ingest credential required; GET requires a separate review credential) Weather and ocean feeds: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/conditions Monthly labor statistics: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/economy Curated community resources: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/resources Example business query: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/businesses?q=coffee&radius=5&limit=5 Property desk: https://elsegundo.xyz/property/ Space Dirt original publication: https://spacedirt.beehiiv.com/ AI learning: https://elsegundo.xyz/university/ Lesson data: https://elsegundo.xyz/university/lessons.json Art gallery: https://elsegundo.xyz/art/ Art provenance: https://elsegundo.xyz/art/manifest.json PointCast briefs and case studies: https://elsegundo.xyz/projects/ Coverage and limits: https://elsegundo.xyz/sources/ Remote MCP setup (for compatible clients): https://elsegundo.xyz/mcp-guide/ Optional El Segundo Drum: https://elsegundo.xyz/drum/ Nouns Drum Club: https://pointcast.xyz/nouns/drum-club/ Read drum totals as signals, not people. Do not add beats while researching. Complete source map: https://elsegundo.xyz/llms.txt Data manifest: https://elsegundo.xyz/api/v1/manifest OpenAPI reference: https://elsegundo.xyz/oracle/openapi.json READ THE DATES -------------- The briefing generation time means the page was assembled then; it is not the observation time of every source. Conditions may be fresh, partial, stale or unavailable. Forecasts describe future periods. Labor statistics are monthly. Census figures and directory snapshots are dated datasets. An evergreen resource is useful, but is not a newly announced event. Use an item's original source URL, observation/issue/reporting date, unit and geography. Verify anything that may have changed before making a current claim. Do not invent events, schedules, hours, prices or listings. A source failure does not establish that there are no alerts or no events. Art here is creative work, not evidence of a real scene. University of El Segundo is an independent learning project, not an accredited degree program. The site is independent and is not affiliated with the City. GROK BOT / X SETUP CONTEXT ------------------------- Tagging @bot on X hands a task to the owner's main Grok Bot. The public reply confirms receipt; work and results remain in the Bot conversation. This does not automatically publish the result as @elsegundotoday. xAI's guide calls for an X account connected to the Grok account, Grok Bot access and at least one owned Bot. The X plugin is optional for the tagged handoff. Check the current official setup instructions for availability. After reviewing one successful briefing, the owner can save the process as a skill and choose a routine with an explicit time, time zone and output. The daily research workflow stores drafts only. X posting and website publishing require a separate owner-approved workflow. Official documentation checked October 24, 2026: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/tag-on-x https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/skills-routines-and-automations https://help.x.com/en/using-x/about-bot https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/secrets https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/approvals-security-and-privacy https://cursor.com/help/grok-bot/routines Plain web pages, feeds and a standard authenticated HTTPS submission are our compatibility approach. Grok documents browser/command-line work, public X research and routines, but a secure credential-to-POST binding must be tested in the owner’s Bot. Do not assume native HTTP or MCP write support. An incoming Grok routine webhook is the reverse direction, not proof that this outgoing research handoff is connected. No special xAI integration, automatic discovery or configured Bot is claimed. WORK AND LIFE https://elsegundo.xyz/jobs/ — job snapshots and live source searches; preserve checked date, posted date and distance basis, confirm availability with the employer. https://elsegundo.xyz/seasonal/ — season-aware resident ideas and source calendars. https://elsegundo.xyz/university/mcps/ — small lessons in connected tools. https://elsegundo.xyz/projects/#chair-feature-title — The Extra Chair specification-research feature. https://elsegundo.xyz/prayer/ — private browser reflection; no prayer content or activity is shared. Do not claim a community prayer count.