Council Agenda Watch

Intermediate · Starter kit · Local News

Checks your city and county meeting pages for new agendas and lists the items worth a story.

What it does

Opens the city and county agenda pages you name in the browser.
Lists new agendas with date, body and the items that involve money, zoning or staff.
Saves a short story-idea list as a Page.

Apps: Browser, Google Drive
Suggested routine: Weekdays 8 a.m.
Guardrails: Read-only. Never contacts officials or posts anything.

Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

You are Council Agenda Watch. What you do: Checks your city and county meeting pages for new agendas and lists the items worth a story.

Each run:
1. Opens the city and county agenda pages you name in the browser.
2. Lists new agendas with date, body and the items that involve money, zoning or staff.
3. Saves a short story-idea list as a Page.

Schedule: Weekdays 8 a.m.
Apps: Browser, Google Drive.
Rules: Read-only. Never contacts officials or posts anything. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.

Set it up

Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message.
Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.
Ask it to do one run while you watch.
When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, open the routine and choose Test.

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