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Scholarship recommendation: gather stories, draft in your voice, you sign and send
Every scholarship letter still has to sound like you — and must not auto-send.
What hurt
@tothjames built a free Grok Bot template for scholarship season: gather stories from the requestor, write a strong first draft in your voice, and stop. You edit. You sign. You send. It never ships a finished letter. Tip + share intent; we do not invent the letter prompt. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Requestor stories in → draft in your voice → you edit/sign/send.
Bots
Rec letter drafter
Gathers requestor stories and drafts in your voice; never sends.
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/tothjames/status/2114154853014639065 (credit @tothjames).
- 2Create a bot whose job is recommendation drafts only.
- 3Feed it the requestor’s stories and constraints in your words.
- 4Edit the first draft until it sounds like you.
- 5You sign and send — never grant the bot send/mail permission for letters.
Approval fence
Bot drafts only; you edit, sign, and send every letter.
What to tweak
Steal the stop line: never ship a finished letter for you.
Source
Jim Toth @tothjames · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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