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Before vault: virtual card, email alias, ask before any payment
A bot that reads strangers' messages now holds your card — treat that as prompt injection with a payment method.
What hurt
@0xCortiq's checklist before turning on the Grok Bot vault: separate low-limit virtual card (never main), email alias for bot sign-ups, one instruction line to ask before any payment, no bank logins, weekly activity-log review. Tip only. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Virtual card + alias + ask-before-pay line + no bank login + weekly log.
Bots
Any payment-capable bot
May use vault only after you set card limits and ask-before-pay.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
Optional: standing ask-before-pay line in bot instructions.
Routines
Weekly: read the bot activity log.
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/0xCortiq/status/2113748396653854945 (credit @0xCortiq).
- 2Issue a separate virtual card with a low limit; never store your main card.
- 3Make an email alias only for bot sign-ups.
- 4Add one standing line: ask me before any payment. Do not store bank logins.
- 5Review the bot activity log every week.
Approval fence
Bot must ask before any payment; you never give main-card or bank login.
What to tweak
Steal the five gates; skip none before the vault holds a card.
Source
Cortiq @0xCortiq · Original post
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