Engineering
Weekend AI squad: named roles + CoS quiet mode for quota
One person, one Saturday, a side-project backlog — and chatty bots burning quota.
What hurt
Jess Temporal (@jesstemporal) built a Grok Bot squad for My Yarn Stash weekends: Dorothea (CoS, 30‑min keep-moving), Francis (CMO), Queenie (QA), Dottie (Developer), Iggy (Infra), Em (Engineering Manager). She ships real features while bots work, then asks CoS to keep communications minimal and watches routines bots spawn (CI follow-ups) so Saturday quota lasts. Tip + author blog — no invented prompts. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Name six seats. You approve stage/preview. CoS quiets chatter. Audit routines bots create.
Bots
Dorothea (CoS)
Keeps the squad moving; can run quiet to save quota.
Dottie (Developer)
Codes against docs; follows CI/review.
Queenie (QA)
Test data, user paths, unit/integration reports.
Iggy (Infra)
DNS, servers, auth domain chores with your gate.
Francis (CMO) / Em (EM)
Copy/campaigns; prioritize and assign across projects.
Plugins
Browser
Optional
Files
Short company/docs the bots read before they invent process.
Routines
Optional CoS keep-moving cadence (Jess used ~30 min) — lower frequency if quota hurts.
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/jesstemporal/status/2102864834849304751 and https://jtemporal.com/i-built-my-ai-squad-in-grok-bot/.
- 2Create named seats you actually need (CoS, Dev, QA, Infra, marketing) — not 45 bots.
- 3Tell CoS to keep bot-to-bot chatter minimal when quota runs hot.
- 4List routines bots create (CI follow-ups, etc.). Pause or thin ones outside your ship window.
- 5You still approve stage/preview and production. Ship one real user-value task this weekend.
Approval fence
You still gate staging, production, domain, and spend. No auto-merge to prod without your yes.
What to tweak
Steal named roles + CoS quiet mode + routine watch. Saturday ship without burning the week.
Source
Jess Temporal @jesstemporal · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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