Lecture X

description: Deep-read an X (Twitter) post via Grok + Live Search - verbatim post, thread, TL;DR, claims, reply sentiment, voices to watch

category: research

triggers_en: ["read this x post", "deep read this tweet", "analyze this tweet", "read this thread"]

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute /x-read [url]:

1. Resolve the URL from the user's argument. If no URL was given, ask: "Which X post URL?" Accept any URL containing x.com/ or twitter.com/.

1. Run the Python command from the repo root (~/Projects/personal/obsidian-second-brain/):

   uv run -m scripts.research.x_read "<url>"

1. The script prints a structured analysis (ORIGINAL POST, THREAD, TL;DR, KEY CLAIMS, REPLY SENTIMENT, NOTABLE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS, VOICES TO WATCH) and a one-line cost summary on stderr. Show the analysis to the user verbatim - don't paraphrase or summarize.

1. Default save behavior: chat only. Do NOT save the analysis to the vault automatically. The user must ask explicitly ("save this", "save to vault", "/obsidian-save") for it to be archived.

1. If the user asks to save: write an AI-first note to Research/X-reads/YYYY-MM-DD — <slug>.md in the vault, following the AI-first vault rule (Section 0 of _CLAUDE.md):

• Frontmatter: date, time, type: x-read, post-url, post-author (if known), key-claims (list), tags, related-people (wikilinks for any @ handles that map to known people in the vault), cost-usd
• Body starts with For future Claude: preamble (2-3 sentences summarizing what this post is about and why it was saved)
• Then the full structured analysis from the script

1. Plain English triggers that route to this command: "read this tweet", "read this X post", "what's in this tweet", "analyze this X link" - when followed by a URL.

1. If the script fails with a clear error (missing key, network down), surface the error message verbatim. The script handles retry on transient errors automatically.

AI-first rule: Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow references/ai-first-rules.md - ## For future Claude preamble, rich frontmatter (type, date, tags, ai-first: true, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory [[wikilinks]] for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. The vault is for future-Claude retrieval - not human reading.

Anti-fabrication: Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as TBD). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in references/ai-first-rules.md.