How to Set Up Grok Bot and Build Your First AI Agents
Narrow the first bot, share plugins across the fleet, invite Slack into the channel before you set a trigger.
For
People setting the first weekday brief and a channel trigger.
When you're done
A morning plan from your real calendar, and a Slack trigger that receives the room.
How
- 01 Name the first bot for one job.
Title and description decide where work goes. Keep it narrow.
- 02 Ask it to plan your mornings.
It will ask where to-dos and calendar live, then walk the plugin connections. Those connections are shared across every bot you add later.
- 03 Turn the brief into a weekday schedule.
One short note: what is on today, what moved.
- 04 For Slack, invite the connected app into the target channel before you set the trigger.
Without that invite, the trigger never sees the messages.
- 05 Teach one small public action by doing it once.
MindStudio used liking posts in a community. The bot later corrected itself because it could not tell which posts were already liked. That correction is the point.
Notes
What's good: the bot asks where the calendar lives instead of guessing. The catch: a Slack trigger with no channel invite looks set up and stays silent.
Prompt
You plan my weekday mornings. Ask me where the to-dos and calendar live. Then give me one short brief. When I want Slack to wake you, wait until the app is in that channel. Do not pretend a trigger works if the room cannot see you.
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