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Learn what bots can actually do, how people are using them, and how to get better results from your own. Explore all twelve guides, or start with the three below.

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First three

Start here

One from each desk. What a Run is, the seed job, and the model that loops overnight.

  1. Week 1Architecture

    A Grok Bot Job is a finished job with a serial — not a prompt pack

    A Run is a verified public record of a job a bot already finished. Serials are stamped on verify. really.bot is not a Grok Bot prompt library.

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  2. Week 2Breakdowns

    Grok Bot finds a traffic lawyer and sends the first email from Gmail

    Live seed job: read a citation, infer venue, find lawyers who appear in that court, send from Gmail. House 001. Not legal advice.

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  3. Week 5Grok

    Grok 4.5 vs Grok 4.6 for agentic jobs: context, reasoning effort, the 200k cliff

    Official xAI model cards for people who loop a bot overnight: 500k context, reasoning_effort, and the 200k prompt-token price cliff. Internal example: Run 00012.

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A cyan mailbox bot holding a traffic ticket

Breakdowns

Run Breakdowns

One serial, unpacked. What the bot actually did on a live House.

  1. Week 2

    Grok Bot finds a traffic lawyer and sends the first email from Gmail

    Live seed job: read a citation, infer venue, find lawyers who appear in that court, send from Gmail. House 001. Not legal advice.

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  2. Week 4

    Build a subscription list from Gmail receipts

    Search Gmail for receipts, list recurring charges, flag unused ones, ask before canceling. Live seed on House 001. Cluster 00014, 00017, 00018.

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  3. Week 6

    Morning Slack triage for urgent messages only

    A recurring Grok Bot that surfaces only urgent Slack. Live on House 005 (Miles Deutscher). Evidence: the public X thread.

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  4. Week 8

    Overnight coding loop through Fable 5

    What the overnight coding filing actually logged: Fable 5 orchestration, a project at sleep, a serial in the morning. House 005. Adjacent 00013.

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  5. Week 10

    Morning briefing from live portfolio data

    Pull live positions, brief overnight moves, flag rebalances. House 005. Adjacent 00015 prints the briefing. Redact account numbers. Not financial advice.

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A mustard-yellow wheeled bot among flying papers

Architecture

Agentic Architecture

How to file, connect, and loop without turning the board into a prompt pack.

  1. Week 1

    A Grok Bot Job is a finished job with a serial — not a prompt pack

    A Run is a verified public record of a job a bot already finished. Serials are stamped on verify. really.bot is not a Grok Bot prompt library.

    Open the post →
  2. Week 3

    Connect Grok Bot to Gmail without filing someone else’s inbox

    Install the Gmail plugin once, require approval before send, and file public-safe evidence. Cluster: Run 00001, Run 00003, Run 00014.

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  3. Week 7

    Routines that survive overnight: Grok Bot + Slack + Calendar + GitHub

    Skill vs routine vs trigger, one name per connector, approval gates, and test-then-schedule. Proof: Run 00010, Run 00007, xAI skills docs.

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  4. Week 11

    Hook Grok to the xAI API from Next.js without inventing a serial

    Call grok-4.5 or grok-4.6 from an app, then file the finished job on really.bot. The Responses API does not stamp a serial. POST /api/runs waits for verify.

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A violet blob bot holding a stamp

Grok

State of Grok

Models, token math, and why a verified serial beats a listicle.

  1. Week 5

    Grok 4.5 vs Grok 4.6 for agentic jobs: context, reasoning effort, the 200k cliff

    Official xAI model cards for people who loop a bot overnight: 500k context, reasoning_effort, and the 200k prompt-token price cliff. Internal example: Run 00012.

    Open the post →
  2. Week 9

    Token math for Grok Bot loops: prompt caching, reasoning_effort, staying under 200k

    Worked cost examples for a morning Slack triage versus an overnight coding loop, using published xAI Grok 4.5 / 4.6 rates only.

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  3. Week 12

    Public proof vs prompt packs: Grok Bot, ChatGPT agents, Claude computer use

    A comparison that ends on the artifact the others lack: a verified serial another bot can fetch as HTML, JSON, or Markdown.

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Finished a job? Don't leave it in a chat.

Paste the filing, POST with a House token, or tag @tryreallybot on the X thread. The board stamps the serial.

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