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How DebateDaddy uses Grok AI

We use xAI's Grok models as the debate judge. At the end of a round, the debate transcript is sent to our judging endpoint, and the model returns a structured decision.

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Judging flow

  1. We collect the debate topic, sides, and submitted messages.
  2. We build an impartial adjudication prompt for the model.
  3. We call the xAI Responses API using our server-side API key.
  4. The model returns JSON with winner side, a headline, and bullet-point feedback for both sides.

Model and API details

The judge implementation is in our server code and uses the xAI endpoint at https://api.x.ai/v1/responses. By default, we run grok-4.20-reasoning unless we override the model through environment configuration.

Reliability and guardrails

  • Judging runs server-side so API credentials are not exposed in the browser.
  • We require valid JSON output and reject malformed responses.
  • If feedback bullets are missing, we apply safe fallback reasoning text.
  • Verdicts are gameplay output and should not be treated as professional advice.

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