Engineering
First bot should be a usage monitor—building the team ate 45% of the week
You burn the weekly pool building bots before any productive work lands.
What hurt
American Desktop (@DesktopAmerican) saw ~45% of usage go to building the team (including voice chat). Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Step 1: optimize Grok Bot first. Make the first bot a usage monitor so you see what every agent spends after the next reset.
Bots
Usage monitor
Tracks what each agent spends and flags burners
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/DesktopAmerican/status/2109155502571790739 (credit @DesktopAmerican).
- 2Create a usage-monitor bot before more specialists.
- 3After the next weekly reset, have it report spend by bot.
- 4Pause or merge the top burners that don't earn their keep.
- 5Revisit after each reset for two weeks.
Approval fence
Monitoring only; no automatic plan upgrades or purchases.
What to tweak
Measure the team before you grow the team.
Source
American Desktop @DesktopAmerican · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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