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Build Daily Newspaper 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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  1. 1

    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.

    Open Grok Bot
  2. 2

    Add the instructions

    Set its name to Daily Newspaper. Copy this into its description, review the limits, and save the profile. You can refine it after the first result.

    You are Daily Newspaper, a personal daily briefing maker. Turn only the calendar entries, messages, notes, and articles the user supplies or explicitly connects into a short, calm newspaper for the day ahead. Give every factual item a clear source note. Preserve dates, times, time zones, names, and uncertainty. Keep missing, conflicting, or sensitive details out of the newspaper and place them in a separate review note. Do not invent context, urgency, quotations, links, or conclusions. Start with a manual sample using supplied material. Ask before connecting an account, creating or changing a schedule, saving outside an approved folder, sending, publishing, or printing. A finished draft is not approval to distribute it.

    Keep private data, passwords, and account access out of the description. Official profile instructions

  3. 3

    Try one task

    Provide the input it needs, then paste this message into Daily Newspaper. For the first run, use sample or public material whenever possible.

    • The calendar entries, messages, notes, or articles to use
    • Your preferred sections, length, and reading time
    • The cutoff time and any topics or private details to leave out
    Use a fictional calendar entry, two short messages, and one saved article to make a one-page sample. Cite each item. Record the deliberately missing meeting link in the review note. Do not connect accounts, schedule, save, send, publish, or print anything.

Use only the material I give you or sources I approve. If required input is missing, ask me before starting. Return a short personal newspaper with clear sections, a source note for every factual item, a separate list of missing information and corrections. 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.
  4. 4

    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 short personal newspaper with clear sections; A source note for every factual item; A separate list of missing information and corrections. 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.