Tutorials & techniques

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Easy technique posts and YouTube tutorials from the 3-day Grok Bot Galaxy event, for @BuildBotsBetter. Posts stay draft until Buzz OK — nothing goes public until reviewed.

Day 1 + Day 2 replays are linked below. Day 3 is an honest TBD until notes land. Follow the series on X: @BuildBotsBetter.

Foundations

Posts 01–04 — one job, anti-jobs, dogfood, skills & routines.

• One job, one voice Draft Most bots fail because they try to be five jobs.
• Anti-jobs (what it must never do) Draft The fastest way to keep a bot safe is naming what it won’t do.
• Dogfood before “ready” Draft “Ready” is not a vibe — it’s a pass you ran yourself.
• Skills, memory, routines (not mega-prompts) Draft Memory + routines outlive model swaps.

Day 1 eng

Posts 05–08 — pillars, scope cuts, hierarchy, stack dogfood.

• Four pillars (Engineering intro) Draft Autonomy isn’t magic — it’s agents + tools + cloud + memory.
• Scope cuts: night-of console, not the whole marketplace Draft Ship the night-of console. Cut payments until you need them.
• Agents as colleagues + hierarchy Draft Hierarchy beats one mega-prompt.
• Dogfood your stack choice Draft “Devs we care about work in Go” vs “we dogfood TypeScript” — pick, then stick.

Day 2 sales / support

Posts 09–12 — approval gates, Sherlock, Serena, Sales Eng pack.

• Approval gates before send Draft Research and draft freely. Send only with a human gate.
• Sherlock: evidence-backed support Draft Support bots that cite beats support bots that vibe.
• Serena: competitive intel on a schedule Draft Battlecards go stale unless a bot owns the watch.
• Sales Eng pack (Echo + Technical Resource + Customer Expert) Draft Four seats, four bots — not one “sales brain.”

Eggbot / pstack

Posts 13–15 — design bar, pstack, templates-as-characters.

• Dr Eggbot design bar Draft Design the bot first. Templates come after the job is tight.
• pstack quickstart for coding bots Draft Go deep first, then parallelize with confidence.
• Templates as characters (Day 2 framing) Draft Share skills/routines/memory — after the job is real.

Fleet ops

Posts 16–18 (+ Post 19 Day 3 TBD) — coordinator vs specialists, clickable paths, rapid-fire.

• Coordinator vs specialists Draft One conductor. Many players. Don’t clone the conductor.
• Clickable paths only Draft If the human can’t open it in one click, you failed the handoff.
• Rapid-fire tips pack (Day 1 close) Draft Six tips that compound after the learning curve.
• Day 3 — TBD TBD We’re not inventing Day 3. When notes land, this post ships.

YouTube playlist

Suggested playlist: “Grok Bot Galaxy → Build Bots Better.” URLs are placeholders until published — do not invent links.

Replay library

• Day 1 broadcast Engineering + live build + lessons
• Day 2 broadcast Sales Eng day — approval gates & roster patterns
• Day 3 broadcast TBD No notes or URL yet — we won’t invent content.