Engineering
Skill description is the trigger, not a title
Vague skill names never fire when you actually need them.
What hurt
Kaizen Prompt Lab (@kaizenpromptlab) puts it cleanly: a Grok Bot skill's description isn't a title—it's the trigger. Weak: "Email helper". Strong: sort into Reply today / Waiting / FYI / Junk and draft replies, used when you ask to triage or when the morning routine runs. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Rewrite skill descriptions as when-to-fire + what-to-do.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
Plugins
Gmail
Optional
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
Strong email-triage skill description (author-quoted)
Quoted from @kaizenpromptlab — as published. Do not invent a second system prompt.
Sort new email into Reply today / Waiting / FYI / Junk and draft replies. Use when I ask to triage or when the morning routine runs.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/kaizenpromptlab/status/2111941106233680241 (credit @kaizenpromptlab).
- 2Open each skill you rely on and check whether the description says when it should fire.
- 3Replace title-only blurbs with: action + buckets + trigger moments.
- 4Paste the author-quoted email triage line (or adapt buckets to your labels).
- 5Run one triage ask and one morning routine to confirm it actually triggers.
Approval fence
Skills only draft or propose; you still approve sends.
What to tweak
Steal the strong line; drop title-only skill blurbs.
Source
Kaizen Prompt Lab | AI prompts for work @kaizenpromptlab · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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