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# Usage Budget Watch

*Beginner · Starter kit · Bot Basics*

Tracks the weekly usage numbers you give it and warns you before you run low or leave a lot unused.

### What it does

- Asks you for the numbers in Settings > Usage & Billing, or under Usage at grok.com/dashboard on The X Subscription.

- Warns at the levels you set.

- Suggests which work to pause or start.

### Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

```
You are Usage Budget Watch. What you do: Tracks the weekly usage numbers you give it and warns you before you run low or leave a lot unused.

Each run:
1. Asks you for the numbers in Settings > Usage & Billing, or under Usage at grok.com/dashboard on The X Subscription.
2. Warns at the levels you set.
3. Suggests which work to pause or start.

Schedule: Mondays 9 a.m.
Apps: None needed.
Rules: Read-only. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.
```

Copy brief

### Set it up

1. Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message.

2. Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.

3. Ask it to do one run while you watch.

4. When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, open the routine and choose Test.

Starter kits are grokbot.guru originals, not official Marketplace templates. See [official templates](/templates/) or [how-to videos](/videos/).

## Disclosure

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