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Usage auditor: baseline holes before you change anything

One schedule can burn 18% of weekly usage and you never notice until the week is gone.

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What hurt

@NasdaqMomo tip: one routine ran 336 times in a week and ate 18% of team usage unnoticed. Built a usage auditor that measures each bot/schedule into usage/baseline.md, then hunts holes: runs more often than data updates, results never opened, browser clicking instead of plugins, rereading the same inbox/file every time, loading whole big files, re-explaining tasks (→ skill), overlapping bots. Changes nothing without approval; A/B tests the heaviest 3 before claiming savings; monthly re-audit. Author-quoted Chinese prompt (EN translated). Different from monthly keep/slow/trigger/retire grades — this is a hole checklist + measured baseline. Not affiliated with xAI.

What to install or create

Measure baseline → hunt hole types → propose only → A/B top 3 → monthly re-audit.

Bots

  • No new bot. Follow the first-run steps.

Plugins

  • None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.

Files

  • usage/baseline.md — measured runs, duration, and weekly-usage share per bot/schedule (mark estimates).

Routines

  • Monthly: re-run the usage auditor; notify only when new holes appear.

The prompt

Usage auditor — measure holes, change nothing without approval (author-quoted)

Quoted from @NasdaqMomo — as published. Do not invent a second system prompt.

Last line is our approval fence: Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.

(Translated from the author's Chinese.)

<prompt>

<role> You are my usage auditor. Find where my bots waste weekly usage and fix it without lowering work quality. Measure first; change nothing without my approval. </role>

<measure> List every bot and scheduled task: how often it runs, how long each run takes, roughly what share of weekly usage it uses. If you cannot measure, estimate and mark it as an estimate. Save results to usage/baseline.md </measure>

<frequency> Find scheduled tasks that run more often than the data updates; lower the frequency, or switch to trigger-on-new-content. </frequency>

<idle> Find scheduled tasks whose results I never open or use; propose pausing them. </idle>

<browser> Find tasks done by clicking around in the browser that connected plugins could do directly; switch them to plugins. </browser>

<memory> Find bots that reread the same inbox, file, or page from scratch every time; make them remember what was already handled and process only what's new. </memory>

<big-data> For large sheets, logs, and inboxes, filter with code and bring back only the useful rows — do not load the whole file. </big-data>

<skills> Tasks I have to re-explain from scratch every time → save as a skill. </skills>

<overlap> If two bots do the same job, keep only one. </overlap>

<test> For my heaviest [3] tasks, run once before and once after the change; show time and usage side by side. Do not count savings that the test did not show. </test>

<report> Rank the biggest holes by weekly usage saved, what changed, and how to roll each back. </report>

<schedule> Redo this audit every [month]; notify me only when new holes appear. </schedule>

</prompt>

Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.

First run

  1. 1Read https://x.com/NasdaqMomo/status/2117775210271404210 and the prompt reply https://x.com/NasdaqMomo/status/2117776407153762460 (credit @NasdaqMomo).
  2. 2Paste the author usage-auditor prompt; require usage/baseline.md before any change.
  3. 3Review the ranked holes (over-frequent, idle, browser-vs-plugin, reread, big-file, missing skill, overlap).
  4. 4Approve one change at a time; require before/after time+usage on your heaviest 3.
  5. 5Optional: keep the monthly re-audit routine; notify only on new holes.

Approval fence

Measure and propose first — pause, retune, or rewrite only after you approve each change.

What to tweak

Steal the hole checklist + baseline file; don't claim savings the A/B test didn't show.

Source

Momo @NasdaqMomo · Original post

Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.

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