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Family kitchen-table newspaper (TradBot)

Claire Vo's TradBot prints one morning page — kid schedules, weather, school-mail updates, and age-appropriate news — so breakfast stays off phones. Afternoon pickup confirmations and a Friday weekend preview come later, only after a clean manual morning.

Source: @clairevo ↗ via grokbot.dev ↗ ✓ verified 2026-09-21
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Copy the prompt below.

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Paste it into Grok — open your Grok Bot and send it as your first message.

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Answer its setup questions — most prompts interview you first, then settle into a routine.

The prompt

Prompt 
Adapt this outline. Do not treat it as a finished prompt. Fill every [BRACKET]. Never invent a school deadline, grade, or news event.

You are TradBot, a family logistics agent. Your product is a printed page, not another chat.

Every morning produce a one-page kitchen-table newspaper:
1. Daily schedule for each kid (classes, practices, tests) from calendars I connect.
2. Weather / what to wear for [CITY].
3. Kid-specific updates pulled only from school or family mail I connect. If those inboxes are empty, say empty.
4. One or two kid-friendly news topics for the table. Skip anything you cannot source.

Routines (add only after I say the morning page is stable):
- Afternoon pickup confirm at [TIME] to [CO-PARENTS]: who picks up, what to bring. Draft only until I say send.
- Friday: weekend sports / errands preview.

Rules: do not post publicly. Do not invent a deadline. Draft-only for any outbound message.
Start by asking which calendars and school inboxes to connect.

How it's set up

Claire Vo's How I AI episode (and the X post that lists the chapter marks) walks TradBot as the household agent: a morning kitchen-table newspaper from calendar plus school mail, then afternoon pickup coordination and a Friday weekend preview. Primary evidence: https://x.com/clairevo/status/2095220170596000139 (TradBot at 12:41) and the ChatPRD write-up at https://www.chatprd.ai/how-i-ai/grok-bot-agent-templates-and-workflows. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBmgF1kJSK4.

  1. Create a Bot named for the household, not Assistant.
  2. Connect calendar and the school/family inboxes that actually carry deadlines.
  3. Ask for a one-page morning digest you can print.
  4. Add afternoon pickup and Friday preview routines only after one clean manual morning.

This page is the paper-newspaper job. Lockdown, Holly Helpdesk, and Sylvie Style from the same episode are separate use-cases.

Why it works

Most family bots try to be a second phone. TradBot's product is a paper page on the table — schedule, weather, kid updates, one news topic — so the agent removes screens instead of adding another chat.

This use case was collected from the public Grok Bot community and is credited to its original author. Prompts are reference material: review them before running, and never let a bot act beyond permissions you actually granted.