Engineering
Same steps every time? Keep a skill — not another bot
Every new idea spun up a bot — most of them did not need a seat.
What hurt
Jerry Dai (@shuntian2026) Day 2: with one front-door bot (Aria), he asked five real jobs the same question — same steps every time → skill (recipe); needs its own files/memory across tasks → bot (seat). Three of five stayed skills he can pause and resume; two deserved bots. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Run your backlog through skill-vs-bot. Pause skills instead of deleting; hire bots only for owned memory.
Bots
Front door
Routes work. Does not do every job itself.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
skills/. Paused recipes you can turn back on.
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/shuntian2026/status/2109642284157583757 (credit @shuntian2026).
- 2List five real recurring jobs.
- 3For each: same steps every time → write/keep a skill; needs owned memory → keep or hire a bot.
- 4Pause skills you are not running; do not delete the recipe file.
- 5Refuse new bot hires that fail the memory test.
Approval fence
Do not create new bots while the five-job test is unfinished.
What to tweak
Steal the one question. Recipes scale; seats are expensive.
Source
Jerry Dai| 顺天 @shuntian2026 · Original post
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