Engineering
Tip: end every polling routine with a stop condition
Zombie shipping checks quietly burn your weekly usage after delivery.
What hurt
nick (@thecsguy) tip after Elon's Lego delivery story: end every polling ask with a stop condition like "check daily until it's delivered, then delete this routine" so dead checks don't eat weekly usage. Optional: a bot that manages zombie routines for you. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Edit existing poll routines. Add stop + delete. Tip only.
Bots
Any polling bot
Every poll ends with stop + self-delete.
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/thecsguy/status/2110146834610213172 (credit @thecsguy).
- 2List routines that poll (shipping, status, price).
- 3Rewrite each ask to include a stop condition and "then delete this routine".
- 4Optional: ask a desk bot to find routines with no stop condition.
- 5Confirm one finished poll actually deleted itself.
Approval fence
Routines may delete only themselves when the stop condition is met.
What to tweak
Steal stop-condition → self-delete. Kill zombies before they meter you.
Source
nick @thecsguy · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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