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First day on Grok Bot: connect your apps and stay with one bot
New users rush to build a team of bots before the first one knows anything about their work.
What hurt
Lauren (@poteto), who builds Grok Bot at SpaceXAI, posted her first-day advice: connect the apps you use so the bot has context and tools, and do everything with your primary bot before adding more. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Connect your calendar, chat, issue tracker, CRM, and drive. Use the primary bot for everything at first; it's capable on its own. Add bots later for specialization, for example one bot per customer in GTM, or a specialist for a single step like outreach.
Bots
Primary bot
Does all your work at first, using the apps you connected.
Plugins
Calendar
Optional
Gmail
Optional
Linear
Optional
HubSpot
Optional
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/poteto/status/2107830403549831186 (credit @poteto).
- 2Connect the apps you use every day: calendar, chat, issue tracker, CRM, files.
- 3Give your primary bot real tasks for a few days without making new bots.
- 4Note where it gets crowded: one customer, one step, one area of life.
- 5Only then add a specialist bot for that piece.
Approval fence
No send, spend, or publish step here. Keep your usual ask-first rules on.
What to tweak
Context first, team later.
Source
lauren @poteto · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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