Work
Tip only: give your bot's email its own name, not yours
"Let me copy in Peter" makes no sense when the bot's address is your name.
What hurt
Peter Yang (@petergyang) points out that a chief-of-staff bot shouldn't register its email under your name, because it's weird to copy in yourself. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Pick whatever you want your chief of staff to be called and use that for the bot's email.
Bots
Chief of Staff
Emails people on your behalf under its own name.
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/petergyang/status/2108624122339287335 (credit @petergyang).
- 2Choose a name for your chief-of-staff bot.
- 3Claim the bot's email with that name.
- 4Have it introduce itself and copy you in when scheduling.
Approval fence
Keep outbound email on Ask first while you get used to it.
What to tweak
Name the address for the role the bot plays.
Source
Peter Yang @petergyang · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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