Work
If specialist replies reach your main bot late, tell them to send as urgent
Your other bots finish work, but the primary bot doesn't see their replies until you message it.
What hurt
Stephen Brouhard (@ssbrouhard) shared a tip for the primary/orchestrator setup: each bot decides whether its message wakes the bot it's writing to, and informational replies just wait. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Replies marked informational wait until your next message. His fix: tell your bots to send their replies to the main bot as urgent, so it wakes and acts on them.
Bots
Specialist bots
Send results back to the main bot as urgent.
Primary bot
Wakes on urgent replies and moves the work forward.
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/ssbrouhard/status/2107702034531008533 (credit @ssbrouhard).
- 2Notice which handoffs stall until you message the main bot.
- 3Tell each specialist bot: send replies to the main bot as urgent.
- 4Ask them to add it to their standing instructions so it sticks.
- 5Run one delegated task and confirm the main bot picks it up on its own.
Approval fence
No send, spend, or publish step here. Keep your usual ask-first rules on.
What to tweak
Handoffs only move if the reply actually wakes the next bot.
Source
Stephen Brouhard @ssbrouhard · Original post
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