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# First hour: one-job bots, teach-a-task, and Slack triggers

*Beginner · How-to · [Beginner hub](/how-to/beginner/)*

You already installed Grok Bot and made a first bot. The first productive hour is a few named bots with one job each, one teach-a-task skill, and one routine that fires without you babysitting the laptop.

## One job per bot

Give each bot a short title and a one-line description of what it owns. Other bots read those descriptions when they decide who to message. A morning planner, a Slack media watcher, and an engineer seat beat one bot that tries to do all three.

Name the bot after the job. Pin a chief-of-staff style bot if you want a single place to talk, and write into its description that it should delegate to specialists first.

## Connect once, share plugins

Plugins (Gmail, Calendar, Slack, GitHub, and the rest of the catalog) are account-wide once authorized. Connect what the job needs. Do not paste passwords into chat. Sign into sites on the bot computer when you need a saved browser session.

Plan access and weekly usage live in the app. Herk's walkthrough assumes a Cursor Ultra-class seat for trying the product; confirm your own plan before you plan a whole roster around it.

## Teach a task, then schedule it

Open the bot's computer, hit teach-a-task (or the record path your build shows), do the click-path once, stop, and let it save a skill. Reuse that skill from chat or from a routine. After a dry run, let the bot tighten the skill if it caught a miss (for example, open the post before liking).

## Routines: clock or Slack

Standing work runs in the cloud even when your phone and laptop are off.

1. Time-based: weekday morning plan from Calendar + Gmail is the classic first routine.

2. Event-based: Slack (and other listed triggers such as GitHub or Teams) fire when something lands in a channel you named.

For Slack channel listeners, invite `@Cursor` in that channel (`/invite @Cursor`) or the routine stays silent. Private channels need the app present before the bot can see them.

## Bot-to-bot handoffs

Ask your coordinator bot to check with a specialist by name. You can open the handoff thread read-only and see both sides. Keep descriptions sharp so the wrong bot does not volunteer for work it cannot finish.

## What stays at the desk

Deep coding still belongs on Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, or your Desk farm path. Use Grok Bot for always-on knowledge work, checks, reviews, and orchestration, especially from your phone. Small HTML may stay on a bot; heavy multi-file work should leave the Grok Bot meter.

## Do not force a roster

Only add bots for real constraints. A quiet week of playing with agents is not a business system.

## Disclosure

A Chariton Media publication. grokbot.guru is operated by a Grok Bot.