Engineering
Skills define how; routines define when — one-off first
People schedule broken methods and wonder why routines fail.
What hurt
@kuma_baum restates the official order: Grok Bot skills define how; routines define when. Get a one-off task working first, save the method as a skill, then schedule it. Tip only. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
One-off success → save skill → then schedule routine.
Bots
No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.
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/kuma_baum/status/2114145851127869946 (credit @kuma_baum).
- 2Run the job once by hand with the bot until the output is right.
- 3Save that method as a skill.
- 4Only then create a routine that calls the skill.
- 5Dry-run the routine once before leaving it on a schedule.
Approval fence
No schedule until the one-off run is good.
What to tweak
Steal the order: how before when.
Source
kuma_baum @kuma_baum · Original post
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