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Give personal Google Calendar to a Chief of Staff bot — not work
Mixing work calendar access with a helpful bot is a scary blast radius.
What hurt
Baljit (@SinghB) graduated to giving Grok Bot control of personal Google Calendar only (not work), named it Chief of Staff. It plans trips, creates invites and placeholders from texts/Gmail, and he experimented with auto-reply on certain personal emails — with a promise to report what he learns. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Connect personal calendar only. Name the bot. Trip + placeholder from mail/texts. Keep work calendar off.
Bots
Chief of Staff (personal)
Owns personal calendar invites/placeholders. Never touches work calendar.
Plugins
Calendar
Required
Gmail
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/SinghB/status/2110165181451981001 (credit @SinghB).
- 2Connect Google Calendar for your personal calendar only — leave work disconnected.
- 3Name the bot Chief of Staff (or your label) and describe trip + placeholder jobs.
- 4Forward or allow Gmail/texts that should become placeholders; review the first week of invites.
- 5Keep auto-reply off until drafts look like you.
Approval fence
Personal calendar writes only. No work calendar. Email sends wait for your yes until you explicitly promote.
What to tweak
Steal personal-only calendar fence. Work calendar stays yours.
Source
Baljit Ghotra || Founder/ COO at Manus @SinghB · Original post
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