Grok Bot template
From beginner to dangerously good at Grok Bot
Robin Delta's beginner-to-pro Grok Bot guide: the install decisions that make a bot a worker not another chat window, a five-part task brief, the brief→observe→correct→schedule→deliver loop, and 21 bot builds worth stealing.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Be my Grok Bot coach and help me set up my first real worker using the five-part task brief. First, ask me for ONE narrow job, not a catch-all assistant. Then help me write it as a brief that answers exactly five things: 1. Outcome: what must be finished. 2. Sources: which files, sites, apps, or conversations matter. 3. Constraints: what you must avoid, or ask me before doing. 4. Deliverable: what you return, and in what format. 5. Review point: where you stop and wait for me. Run it once on a small, safe input, ideally an attached document, so there is no login. Show the result with evidence (links or page references), and tell me plainly what you could not do. Then help me CORRECT it. I will tell you what to keep, cut, rank, shorten, or reformat; you turn that into a lasting instruction and run it again. Repeat until the output is easy to act on. Only then help me save the method as a skill and schedule it as a routine. Rules: start narrower than feels necessary, never invent a result, always cite your sources, and always stop at the review point before anything that sends, posts, pays, or connects an account.
How it is set up
1. Read Robin Delta's guide, "How to Get Dangerously Good at Grok Bot (Beginner to Pro)" (linked from the source post), it runs beginner → intermediate → pro, with the install decisions, the prompting framework, and 21 bot builds worth stealing.
2. Beginner: create ONE bot with one narrow job, a short name, one primary job, and a description of how it works. Start narrower than feels necessary so it builds clean context instead of becoming another chat window.
3. Brief it with his five-part task brief: outcome, sources, constraints, deliverable, review point. Do the first run on an attached document, no login, easy to inspect.
4. Intermediate: run the training loop, brief → observe → correct → schedule → deliver. The correction step matters most: tighten the output on real runs, then save the working method as a skill.
5. Pro: schedule routines and split work across specialist bots. Keep approval gates on anything that sends, posts, or spends.
Why it works
Most "get good at agents" advice is a benchmark or a promise of one magic prompt. Robin's guide is the opposite: it treats a bot as something you train, not summon, install it narrow, brief it in five parts, then run the brief → observe → correct → schedule → deliver loop until the output is boringly reliable. The correction step is the whole trick, and the 21 named bot builds give you somewhere to point it. Written by a self-described non-technical person, so it stays about getting the work done rather than building the kitchen first.
Before you run it
Read Robin Delta's full guide (linked from the source) for the beginner→pro path and all 21 bot builds. The starter prompt below is a Curator distillation of his five-part task brief and training loop to get your first bot working, the depth is in the article.
Source
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i wanted something a normal person like me could open, give one real job, and improve without building the infrastructure around it.