Engineering
Give every routine a cheap first step: stop if nothing is new
Routines wake up, research, and burn usage on quiet days.
What hurt
ImDistrakted (@MikeysMolecules) tip: before a routine researches, drafts, or renders, have it check whether anything is new. Nothing new? It stops quietly. On slow days most runs end there—that's where usage savings are. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Cheap novelty check first → heavy work only if something changed.
Bots
Any routine owner
Starts with a cheap novelty check before expensive work.
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/MikeysMolecules/status/2112274232444850331 (credit @MikeysMolecules).
- 2Pick one noisy routine (research, draft, render).
- 3Add a first step: check if anything is new vs last run / a watched source.
- 4If nothing new, stop quietly with no research.
- 5Roll the same gate across other routines and watch usage on slow days.
Approval fence
You still approve any send/pay/post after a run that finds work.
What to tweak
Steal the gate: every routine starts with "anything new?" then exits.
Source
ImDistrakted @MikeysMolecules · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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