Lauren Tan's guide to a small, strong Bot team, step by step
Lauren Tan, a Grok Bot builder who posts on X as @poteto, shared a short guide Oct. 31 on building high-quality Bots and managing a Bot team. Tan added more tips in a follow-up post the same day. The main post invites readers to ask Grok Bot to read it and help improve their own team.
Read the main post and the follow-up on X.
Here's how to put the tips to work.
1. Let a designer Bot build your Bots. Tan uses dr eggbot to create Bots. Its Grok Bot Marketplace listing says it asks a few preference questions, then creates the Bot.
2. Keep the team small. Tan wrote that "a few good bots can be more useful and easier to manage than a large team." Before you add a Bot, ask whether one you already have could do the job.
3. Turn instructions into skills. As you explain how you want a task done, tell the Bot to save it as a skill. Tan said skills help a Bot work more consistently, even over long conversations. You can also ask it to keep your skills in a private GitHub repository.
4. Give it the tools you use. Connect your apps, save logins in Vault and give the Bot access to the tools you work with. Tan also suggests letting the Bot set up its own email address so it can sign up for accounts separate from yours.
5. Hunt for copy-and-paste chores. Think about work you do by hand, or spots where you paste information into a chat with your Bot. Ask the Bot how it could handle those steps instead.
6. Onboard it like an intern. Introduce yourself, describe your work, then ask the Bot how it can help automate it.
7. Set routines, but not too often. A routine can run on a schedule, such as a morning check for new bugs, or start when something happens, such as an email from a client. Tan warned that routines can get expensive and suggested running scheduled ones no more than once an hour. For routines that respond to events, filter the events first.
8. Ask for scripts. Tan noted that code uses fewer tokens than having the Bot do a task itself each time. Ask your Bot which parts of your workflow could become scripts and skills, and have it store the scripts in a private GitHub repository.
9. Share Bots with colleagues. If you work on a team plan, Tan suggests sharing your Bot in Slack so colleagues can reuse it.
10. Think like a manager. Tan's closing advice is to "think like a manager" and set Bots up to match or beat your own work, which frees you for bigger projects.
Tan's favorite tip: talk it out. Use voice mode to brain-dump everything you know about a task. At the end, tell your Bot to "restate this in your own words" so you can confirm it understood you.
Try it now: Send your main Bot the link to Tan's post and ask which of your Bots to merge, cut or tighten.
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