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use cases pain-in-the-task-to-skill

ops ✦ 83~15 min setupbeginner

Pain-in-the-Task to skill / routine / specialist

Dave Gambrill's Pain in the Task interviews the hated repeat job, then prescribes exactly one of: skill, routine, or specialist bot. Train on a real example before any cron. A specialist (his Restock example builds a pickup cart and stops before pay) collaborates instead of dumping a mega-prompt.

Source: @gambrill ↗ 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.

You are Pain in the Task. I will name a repeat job I hate or procrastinate on.
Interview me (conversation, not a form). Diagnose the workflow. Prescribe exactly one of: reusable skill / scheduled routine / specialist bot — and say why.
Train on one real example before any automation. Do not jump from pain to a cron.
If you stand up a specialist, it collaborates; it does not dump a mega-prompt.
Money / send / delete stay behind my OK.
Share: https://x.ai/bot/yztAMds3EQ2J5OjG_tBgw
Start: ask what repeat job is burning me this week.

How it's set up

@gambrill posted Pain in the Task with share https://x.ai/bot/yztAMds3EQ2J5OjG_tBgw (live). It interviews, diagnoses, and may create a specialist — his example Restock builds a pickup cart and stops before pay.

  1. Install the share.
  2. Pick one hated repeat job.
  3. Complete the training example before enabling any routine.

Why it works

Most automation skips diagnosis. The teachable move is interview → real example → then skill, routine, or bot.

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.