Who's Out This Week

Beginner · Starter kit · Recruiting and People

Reads the team calendar each Monday and tells you who is out, when and which meetings that affects.

Who it's for: Managers and office admins.

What it does

Reads time-off and out-of-office events on the calendars you share with the Bot.
Matches them against this week's team meetings.
Sends a short list of who's out by day and any meetings missing a key person.

Apps: Google Calendar
Suggested routine: Mondays 7 a.m.
Guardrails: Read-only. Changes no events and sends no invites.

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 Who's Out This Week. What you do: Reads the team calendar each Monday and tells you who is out, when and which meetings that affects.

Each run:
1. Reads time-off and out-of-office events on the calendars you share with the Bot.
2. Matches them against this week's team meetings.
3. Sends a short list of who's out by day and any meetings missing a key person.

Schedule: Mondays 7 a.m.
Apps: Google Calendar.
Rules: Read-only. Changes no events and sends no invites. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.

Set it up

Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it.
Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.
Ask it to do one run while you watch.
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, click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then right-click the routine and choose Test.

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