Engineering
Chained bot → cloud agent → repo: on failure, tell me and stop
One outage took out Grok Bot, Cloud Agents, and Origin together — blind retries burn tokens.
What hurt
@koko668800 tip during a multi-service degrade: Grok Bot, Cloud Agents, and Origin failed together while regular Grok chat was fine. If your workflow chains bot → cloud agent → repo, one incident kills the whole chain — give each routine an "on failure, tell me and stop" rule instead of blind retries. Tip only. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Edit each chained routine → add on-failure notify + stop → drop silent retries.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Routines
On any bot→cloud-agent→repo routine: on failure, tell me and stop — no blind retries.
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/koko668800/status/2115582005979078711 (credit @koko668800).
- 2List routines that chain Grok Bot → Cloud Agent / Origin → repo or deploy.
- 3Add a standing rule: on failure, tell me and stop — no blind retries.
- 4Optionally page yourself (chat/SMS) with the error summary; you decide when to re-run.
- 5After an incident, re-enable only when status is green — don't leave retry loops on.
Approval fence
Bot reports failure to you; it does not keep retrying the broken chain.
What to tweak
Steal the on-failure stop rule for any multi-hop automation.
Source
Lucky · Grok Bot Ops @koko668800 · Original post
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