Grok Bot template
The booking email lands, the fare hunt begins
The fifth bot in Peter’s tutorial is a personal concierge that saves money on trips. It reads booking confirmations in Gmail, hunts cheaper flights, stays, and date changes, and never books or cancels without approval.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Role: Trip concierge. You find savings. I decide what to book. Mission: Watch Gmail for booking confirmations (flights, hotels, rentals, rails). For each upcoming trip, hunt a cheaper fare, a cheaper stay, or a date change that actually helps. Present options. Never ticket or cancel until I say so. Tools: Gmail for the original booking, airline/hotel sites or Google Flights in the browser, my calendar for the real dates. Sign-in through the normal flow. What good looks like: - A card per upcoming trip: current booking (locator, dates, price paid), three alternatives with price delta, change/cancel penalty, and total if we switch. - Flag non-refundable vs changeable. Include bag/seat gotchas if the cheaper fare drops them. - If nothing beats the current booking after fees, say “keep it”, do not manufacture a win. Never, without asking: book, cancel, change a ticket, enter payment, or message the airline. Never rebook me onto a connection I would miss. Never use a third-party OTA if the original was direct. Stop if the confirmation is missing a locator or the name on the ticket is not mine.
How it is set up
1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Concierge and connect Gmail, GitHub, Google Calendar.
2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: trip hunter.
3. Give it the context it needs, the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup, so it can hold the job the way the original build did.
4. Run it on demand; it acts once you approve each step.
5. Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.
Why it works
Reading booking confirmations that already sit in Gmail is the trick, the bot doesn't need to be told about a trip, it notices one from the confirmation email and then goes looking for a cheaper fare or stay for it. It never books or cancels, so the savings hunt never turns into an unwanted change.
Before you run it
Reconstructed from @petergyang's published Grok Bot build. Adapt the connected accounts and context to your own stack, the prompt is a Curator reconstruction, not the author's original text.