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Ready-made Grok Bot templates you can add in one click.
- Add Flora: Plant Care Log on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
- Add Grocery List on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
- Add Clip Bot on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
- Add Meeting Prep on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
- Add Critiquito: Design Critique on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
- Add Proto Bot on x.ai (opens in a new tab)
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Prompts 26- Claude Code added a job-portal adapterThe poster's team builds a tool that auto-applies to jobs across portals, with Workday and Greenhouse already live. They say they had Claude Code add support for Workable: it built the adapter, ran it against four live postings and fixed five bugs by itself in 46 minutes.
- Testing a Windows-built app on macOSThey built their app, AI Productivity Flow, on a Windows laptop and needed it to work on Mac without owning one. The app was run on two macOS versions, and Grok Bot went through the screenshots and logs and found that the app crashed as soon as it opened.
- Codex built a Halo map personal siteThe poster turned their personal website into a browser recreation of the Halo 3 map Guardian, with a treasure hunt about their life hidden inside, and the map uses an original fan-archived asset export. They say Codex wrote nearly all the code on top of it (physics, shaders, movement, quests): about 20,500 lines of TypeScript over 37 hours of agent runtime and 25-30 hours of their own time, and that the hard part was choosing what went into the map and play-testing it, not the coding. They call it an unofficial fan project and say the Halo assets belong to their owners.
- Porting a 1993 Amiga game to GodotThe developer wrote Babylonian Twins in 68000 assembly on an Amiga 500 in 1993. They ran Claude Code with access to a terminal and their files, gave it the original assembly, and had it port the game to Godot. They say an earlier model needed several rounds and many hints, while the Fable 5 model (their claim, not verified by us) got there in one pass with none, and they describe their own role as asking, playing and deciding.
- Claude Code wrote a Mac printer driverA shared Claude Code session shows the agent getting an HP Laser 1008a, a printer the transcript says HP never supported on Mac, to print natively from macOS. The session notes say it took about four hours in one sitting on Aug 17, 2026. The agent worked out the printer's SPL3 raster format and ran HP's own codec inside a Linux container.
- Writes up the day's viral AI posts as a printed newspaper.Each day, pick the AI posts that went viral on X that day and write each one up as a short newspaper article. Put them together as one newspaper and get it ready to print.
- Monthly re-check for phone number listingsThey ran the same removal on their Grok Bot and say it found two of their numbers and one family number on people-search sites. They say the removals were free and took clicking a couple of emails. The bot checks again every month because these sites can re-list you.
- Remove your phone number from people-search sitesTired of spam calls, they had their Grok Bot find where their phone number was listed on sites and file the removals. They say they made it a free skill so others can do the same.
- Three saved articles every afternoonThey built a small cron job for their Hermes agent. Every afternoon it sends them three random articles from their saved list, with an "Archive All" button.
- Vegan recipes and a marathon training scheduleTheir Hermes agent gives them vegan recipes on demand and maintains their marathon training schedule.
- Car insurance quotes compared, with a follow-up emailAfter a pushy sales call, they asked Grok Bot to find and compare car insurance quotes. They say it visited insurer websites, compared prices and listed several offers. It also emailed one insurer to ask whether EV battery coverage was complete, and the insurer sent a detailed reply.
- Picking a safe soap from the manualThey asked Grok Bot to find a car wash soap for their Cybertruck. They say it checked Tesla's service manual first, picked a pH-neutral soap marked safe for stainless steel, and compared prices across several stores with shipping included. It also pointed out where they could pick it up the same day.
- Seven agents asked the same support questionTo compare agents on a very recent problem, they asked several of them whether a sign-in option worked on a business account, where the answer depended on two support docs updated the day before. They report that some agents got it wrong or made up a URL, while ChatGPT Work and Hermes Agent gave correct answers. Their takeaway is that the setup around a model matters as much as the model.
- Weekly AI-tools brief, then a cullTwo scheduled Hermes Agent jobs run their AI news watch. On Mondays one scans GitHub trending, X and YouTube and saves a research brief in Notion. On Fridays the other goes through their bookmarks, tries the tools itself and drops the ones that don't hold up.
- Claude writes the brief for GeminiThey had Claude write a deep research brief for Gemini, giving Claude some prompting best practices first. The topic was a newly announced documentary, and they picked Gemini because it can watch YouTube clips. Claude then turns the finished research into a media dashboard for them.
- Four single-job routines with escalation rulesFour routines do the checking, each with one job: three run on Grok Bot and one runs on Claude. They note that the most useful line in each routine is the rule for when to come to them.
- Changelog journal for a Proxmox clusterTheir Hermes agent creates automated journal entries for their Proxmox VE Server cluster. The entries serve as a change log.
- Air conditioning control through Home AssistantThey can ask their Hermes agent to turn their AC on or off using their preferences. The agent talks to Home Assistant, which controls the AC.
- Four scheduled routines, one checking the restThey run four scheduled routines. At midnight, one bot checks their other bots and suggests fixes; at 08:00 on weekdays, a routine triages the inbox with advice only. Every morning their LinkedIn post goes out, and on Mondays a routine reviews the previous week's posts.
- Daily company digest and weekly routine reviewGrok Bot sends them a company digest every morning and runs a Friday review of every routine, deciding whether to keep, fix or cut each one.
- A chief-of-staff bot named MorganMorgan, their chief-of-staff bot, triages their inbox, sets their priorities for the day and coordinates the rest of their Grok Bot team. They start the day with a short list instead of a long inbox.
- Two inboxes sorted into matching foldersAfter weeks of failing to get Hermes to clean up their email, they say Grok Bot did it in one evening. It sorted their Gmail and Hotmail into matching folders, set up filters, reviewed junk, flagged scams and added a weekly sweep to keep things clean. They turned it into a free template.
- Email Scam Filter, a shared bot templateEmail Scam Filter is a shared Grok Bot template that watches your Gmail every morning. It looks for phishing, fake invoices, blackmail emails, fake prize offers and impostor "IT department" alerts. On its first scan, it found password-phishing emails that had been starred in the author's inbox.
- Watching Gmail for renewals and promo codesTheir Grok Bot watches their Gmail for subscription renewals and drafts their posts every morning. It also set up a routine to catch a promo code email as soon as it arrives.
- Twenty years of email, cleaned upThey had a Grok Bot run for three weeks to clean up 20 years of email. It now runs every morning, summarizing and moving emails and unsubscribing.
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- 01Four single-job routines with escalation rulesThree on Grok Bot and one on Claude, each with a rule for when to interrupt.Added by HQ from @SameerRijh's post. Not submitted by the maker.
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- 02Air conditioning control through Home AssistantAsk the Hermes agent to switch the AC; it talks to Home Assistant.Added by HQ from @radnerus's post. Not submitted by the maker.
- 03A ClickHouse data warehouse with a web interfaceServer, warehouse and MCP, all set up by a Grok Bot, with a custom web app on top.Added by HQ from @skunky's post. Not submitted by the maker.
- 04A pinball-style display on a Raspberry PiA Pi 5 dot-matrix display fed by a Hermes agent: weather, lake conditions, a bird report.Added by HQ from @ztaylor's post. Not submitted by the maker.
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