Engineering
Tip only: schedule routines, do not poll every few minutes
1 / 5 / 30 minute routines chew Grok Bot usage before the day starts.
What hurt
Keegs (@Bobby_1509) told someone burning Heavy-plan Bot usage in four hours: if a routine runs every 1, 5, or 30 minutes, it will chew usage fast. Prefer a scheduled routine once or twice a day instead. Tip only.
What to install or create
Audit routines. Delete or rewrite anything on a sub-hourly loop into a coarse daily or twice-daily cron. Pairs with the Cursor model-default tip.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
A list of your current routine schedules.
Routines
Prefer once or twice daily. Avoid every 1 / 5 / 30 minutes unless truly incident-critical.
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/Bobby_1509/status/2095677873889964074. Tip only.
- 2Open your Grok Bot routines list.
- 3Anything on a 1 / 5 / 30 minute loop: pause it or rewrite to once/twice daily.
- 4Optional: also pin cheaper Cursor task + cloud default models (see cut-cursor-model-defaults).
Approval fence
No send, post, or spend. Editing schedules only.
What to tweak
Steal the cadence rule. Frequency is a budget setting.
Source
Keegs @Bobby_1509 · Original post
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