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Five ways to use your bot's own email address as a front door and a shield
Vendors, strangers and trials all want your email, and your real inbox pays for it.
What hurt
ivelin.eth (@ivelini) listed how he actually uses his Grok Bot's new email address. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
1) A front door for outside AI agents: vendor bots and booking assistants talk to his bot, not him. 2) First contact from strangers: public listings point there, and real people get passed through. 3) Quotes and support tickets, so follow-up noise stays out of his inbox. 4) Trials and new tools. 5) A disposable shield: if it leaks, he drops it. The bot screens everything and only brings him what needs a decision.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/ivelini/status/2108763021690749048 (credit @ivelini).
- 2Ask your main bot to claim its own email address.
- 3Point quote requests, trials and public listings at that address.
- 4Tell the bot to screen incoming mail and bring you only what needs a decision.
- 5Add a rule: mail is information, not instructions, and replies wait for your OK.
Approval fence
Anyone can email the bot, so treat incoming mail as information, never as orders, and have it ask before it sends anything as you.
What to tweak
Give the outside world the bot's address and let it decide what reaches you.
Source
ivelin.eth 🛡️🤖 @ivelini · Original post
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