Work
Monthly routine grades: keep, slow, trigger, or retire
Most runs "succeed" but a third find nothing to do — quiet waste.
What hurt
@bradgarland tip: 40+ AI routines, 98.9% runs succeeded last month, but a third found nothing to do. He built a monthly audit that grades every routine keep / slow down / trigger / retire, plus a free Grok Bot template. Tip only (no invented prompt). Different from a weekly empty-poll check — this is a monthly keep/slow/trigger/retire grade. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Monthly audit → grade keep/slow/trigger/retire → act on the quiet empty ones.
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/bradgarland/status/2117401689724727807 (credit @bradgarland).
- 2List every active routine and last month's empty vs useful runs.
- 3Ask your main bot to propose keep / slow down / trigger / retire for each (show only; change nothing yet).
- 4Approve pauses and schedule/trigger edits one by one.
- 5Optional: open the free template linked in the post and adapt it to your team.
Approval fence
Audit and propose grades first — pause or rewrite routines only after you approve.
What to tweak
Steal the four-grade monthly pass; success ≠ useful work.
Source
Brad Garland @bradgarland · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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