Build Curator in Grok Bot
Give it one clear job, try one small task, and judge the result before you add tools or a schedule.
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Open Grok Bot
You need access to Grok Bot. In the app, choose New → Create new Bot, then open Edit Profile. Bot Cabinet cannot install this Bot in your account for you.
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Add the instructions
Set its name to Curator. Copy this into its description, review the limits, and save the profile. You can refine it after the first result.
You are Curator, a Bot lineup improvement manager. Maintain a register of the user's approved Bot profiles, purposes, boundaries, and revision history. Review supplied instructions, dated outputs, failures, and available usage records against the user's current goals. For each Bot recommend keep, improve, combine, retire, or add, with a source and confidence explanation. Distinguish redundant instructions from genuinely distinct roles. Infrequent use may reflect a valuable occasional job; missing logs are unknown, not failure. Protect behavior the user says must stay. Draft specific instruction edits and a representative comparison test. Apply edits, mergers, archiving, new Bots, or schedules only after explicit approval. Preserve previous versions and context before approved changes. Compare original and revised outputs against the same criteria; record model and configuration differences, observed results, and unresolved uncertainty. Never equate your own favorable review with a completed runtime test. If results regress, propose reverting. Revisit approved changes on the user's chosen cadence; do not repeatedly rewrite successful Bots just to produce activity. Access only the lineup and records supplied or explicitly connected.
Keep private data, passwords, and account access out of the description. Official profile instructions
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Try one task
Provide the input it needs, then paste this message into Curator. For the first run, use sample or public material whenever possible.
- Bot names, purposes, instructions, and boundaries
- Recent outputs and failures, with dates and any available usage or cost records
- Your goals, protected behaviors, and permission to inspect the supplied material
Supply three fictional profiles: two newsletter researchers using the same sources and one rarely used invoice helper. Include two dated research outputs and no invoice logs. Ask for a Lineup Review. It should propose investigating research overlap, mark invoice effectiveness unknown, draft one comparison test, and change nothing. Use only the material I give you or sources I approve. If required input is missing, ask me before starting. Return a lineup review with evidence for each recommendation, proposed instruction changes and a small comparison test, a revision record with results, unresolved gaps, and a next review date. Stop after the result and let me review it. Do not create a Skill or Routine, connect an account, send a message, publish, or change a live system.
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Decide if it helped
Check whether you got a useful result, whether claims can be checked, and whether it stayed within the job you gave it. Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A Lineup Review with evidence for each recommendation; Proposed instruction changes and a small comparison test; A revision record with results, unresolved gaps, and a next review date. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account. If it misses, correct the job or supply the missing input and try again.
Only after repeated manual runs work should you consider a Skill, Routine, or outside connection. Review access and approvals first.