Engineering
Before you schedule a bot workflow: five-question handoff checklist
Scheduling another teammate without a handoff contract creates silent overwrites and orphan work.
What hurt
@bobbyhalljr_dev (shared-computer context): before scheduling a Grok Bot workflow, test the handoff — Current artifact? Current revision? Named owner? Missing-input behavior? Evidence of completion? Before adding another AI teammate, decide what they share and who gets the last write. Tip only. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Answer five handoff questions → name last-write owner → then schedule.
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/bobbyhalljr_dev/status/2115938695836500290 (credit @bobbyhalljr_dev).
- 2Before enabling a schedule, answer: current artifact, current revision, named owner, missing-input behavior, evidence of completion.
- 3Write those five answers into the routine or a shared handoff card.
- 4Decide what teammates share and who gets the last write.
- 5Only then turn the schedule on; reject any workflow that cannot name an owner or completion proof.
Approval fence
Last write is a human decision; bots draft artifacts under named owners.
What to tweak
Steal the five-question gate before any new scheduled workflow.
Source
Bobby Hall Jr @bobbyhalljr_dev · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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