Work
Seven-step playbook: chief + specialists, workspace bus, three gates
Prompting one bot task-by-task never owns a whole workflow.
What hurt
@irongiantXBT shared a 7-step Grok Bot multi-agent playbook: shared cloud computer mental model; create the chief first (route/delegate/monitor/escalate); put research/drafts/evidence in /workspace instead of chat; split specialist teams; three gates (source → evidence → action); humans approve only money/publish/delete/sign; avoid polling, sync-everything, bad retries, and too many bots. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Chief first → /workspace bus → specialists → 3 gates → human trust layer.
Bots
Chief
Routes, delegates, monitors handoffs, collects outputs, escalates.
Specialists
Own content, intelligence, ops, research, or coding workflows.
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/irongiantXBT/status/2113420143959195748 (credit @irongiantXBT).
- 2Create the chief bot first — it routes and escalates; it does not do the specialist work.
- 3Move research, drafts, evidence, and handoffs into /workspace files instead of long chats.
- 4Add specialist bots for content, ops, research, and coding under the chief.
- 5Put source → evidence → action gates on each serious workflow; you only approve money, publish, delete, sign.
Approval fence
Humans approve money, publishing, deletion, signatures, and irreversible external actions only.
What to tweak
Steal the three gates: source, evidence, action — keep running until a gate needs you.
Source
Iron Giant @irongiantXBT · Original post
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