Engineering
Tip only: pull skills and rewrite the auto-bloat
Grok Bot keeps padding skills with extra examples until it slows and confuses itself.
What hurt
Marina (@marinadgal) found Grok Bot automatically updates skills and often adds unnecessary info and examples. That slows it down and confuses it. Fix: ask it to give you the skill(s) it is using, then rewrite them. Tip only.
What to install or create
Ask for the live skill bodies. Strip padded examples and noise. Save the lean rewrite. Re-check after the next auto-update.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
Exported skill markdown you just asked the bot for.
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/marinadgal/status/2098533655001932165 for the tip.
- 2Ask Grok Bot to show the skill(s) it is currently using for the stuck job.
- 3Rewrite: cut unnecessary examples and filler the auto-update added.
- 4Save the lean version. Re-run the task once.
- 5If it bloats again later, repeat the export → rewrite loop.
Approval fence
No send, post, or spend. Editing skills only.
What to tweak
Steal the audit loop: export → rewrite → re-check. Do not invent a new skill from scratch.
Source
Marina @marinadgal · Original post
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