Engineering
Paste this: make the Bot audit which routine is burning your week
Usage dies mid-week and you still do not know which routine rereads the whole chat every run.
What hurt
Fan Grok Bot Radar (@GrokBotRadar) asked their Bot why usage ran out by Wednesday. One answer: a routine firing 672 times a week, rereading the whole chat even when nothing changed. They published a paste-ready audit prompt; fix for theirs was hourly (168 runs, same signal). Tip with author-quoted prompt (related longer guide already on site as stop-week-usage-in-a-day). Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Paste the audit prompt into the Bot that owns your routines. Slow the noisiest cadence without killing the job.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Routines
After the audit: prefer hourly / few-times-daily / event triggers over sub-hourly loops that post even when nothing changed.
The prompt
Routine usage self-audit (author-quoted)
Quoted from @GrokBotRadar — as published. Do not invent a second system prompt.
Last line is our approval fence: Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.
Audit your own usage for me. List every routine you own. For each one, tell me: 1. How often it runs 2. How many runs that is per week 3. Whether it posts a message even when nothing changed 4. Whether this is also the Bot I chat with most Then tell me which one is costing me the most and how to slow it down without breaking the job. Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/GrokBotRadar/status/2106501043160854740 (credit @GrokBotRadar).
- 2Open the Bot that owns your noisy routines (ideally not your longest chat seat).
- 3Paste the author audit prompt (see above) and wait for the ranked list.
- 4Slow the top offender (author fix example: 672/week → hourly = 168/week) without deleting the job.
- 5Optional: read the longer guide already catalogued as https://grokbot-templates.com/use-cases/stop-week-usage-in-a-day for seven more fixes.
Approval fence
Changing routine schedules only. No send/spend/publish from the audit itself.
What to tweak
Steal the audit questions — frequency, weekly runs, empty posts, chat-seat overlap — then cut the winner.
Source
Fan Grok Bot Radar @GrokBotRadar · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
Pro pack
Routine cost control: stop running out of usage by Wednesday
A one-hour audit, a quiet Usage officer and a fix playbook (cadence, silence, event triggers, fresh chats, scripts over clicks) that cut waste without losing the jobs your bots do.