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Teal vs amber: four irreversibles wait at the wall
A “please ask before paying” line in a prompt is a request, not a control.
What hurt
riVeN (@r1VeN2k) draws one gate for every Grok Bot team action. Teal = reversible (research, drafts, filing) and may run alone. Amber = the four things you cannot undo — money out, contracts, production ship, trades — stacks at the wall and waits for a human. The wall is not a sentence the model reads: platform controls (per-action approvals, network policy, isolation) complement Auto Review. Tip with author-published split. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Label every action teal or amber → teal auto → amber (money / contracts / prod ship / trades) waits on human controls.
Bots
Gatekeeper skill
Classify actions teal vs amber; stop amber at the wall for human approval.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
Amber checklist: money out, contracts, production ship, trades.
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/r1VeN2k/status/2104718044891148680 for the teal/amber gate.
- 2List every action your bots can take; mark teal (research, drafts, filing) vs amber.
- 3Park these four as amber by default: money out, contracts, production ship, trades.
- 4Turn on platform per-action approvals / network policy for amber — do not rely on a prompt sentence alone.
- 5Only connect live payment or trading credentials after the wall is real and you have tested a dry-run stop.
Approval fence
Amber actions must use real per-action approvals / network policy — not prompt text alone.
What to tweak
Steal the four amber verbs. Put the wall in platform controls before you connect a live money account.
Source
riVeN @r1VeN2k · Original post
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