Build a Chief of Staff bot first: a concrete Grok Bot workflow for an AI executive team
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-08-20
A concrete recipe for xAI's Grok Bot (shipped Aug 12, overshadowed by the Grok 4.6 debate): don't start with a coding or email bot — create a "Chief of Staff" bot first, with the prompt "Look at me and what I do, examine my existing bots as your team, and decide what to change, remove or add."
The rationale: you are always the bottleneck if you design the team yourself, and you've never managed AI coworkers before. The Chief of Staff reads your calendar, inbox and GitHub, then identifies missing specialists: inbox triage, daily research, expense manager, recruiter, bug-repro bot, and so on.
Then you only talk to the Chief of Staff; it routes work, and specialists collaborate in shared threads so context lives with the team, not in your head. The author warns against using agents ChatGPT-style (one conversation, one task): each bot has its own cloud computer, signs into tools, remembers last week, and runs for hours unattended. xAI's design principle: most AI stops at 90% done; bots should close the last 10%.
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