Repurposing Grok's app builder into a multi-agent 'literary machine' for research papers
kiltrout · reddit · 2026-09-08
Frustrated that LLMs hallucinate closure on long texts and produce weak prose, the author repurposed Grok's app builder into a "literary machine": a multi-agent pipeline seeded with axioms like "problems are open vectors to be closed by research, not invention."
- Fetcher/cleric agents build a weighted corpus of sources under domain-tagged "expert" agents
- A Synthesist agent ("Inspiraation") provides panoramic overview, draws the thesis, and gives data a narrative shape
- A "breath" agent rewrites output against Wikipedia's list of AI-writing tells to sound human
The result was a clear improvement in coherence and sophistication over single LLM prompts — at enormous cost: a week's worth of Grok Pro credits and many hours of corpus building. Early outputs were merely formal data lists; the synthesist stage is what made them read as essays. Remaining issues include context bleed and voice tuning. Agent names carry deliberate misspellings to detect context bleed.
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