Grok BotTips
Make background scripts catch up after the Bot's computer sleeps
Save a last-run time so a missed tick isn't lost, and let a routine restart your scripts after an update, as kevinn from Cursor's forum staff advised.
If you run your own scripts on your Bot's computer, plan for gaps. On Saturday at 1:59 PM ET, staff member kevinn told a user with a 24/7 data pipeline that the computer pauses when no Bot is working, and that updates end running processes. His fix makes the pipeline survive both.
Why it matters#
A script that only grabs "the last 30 minutes" loses whatever happened while the computer slept. The reporter logged gaps of 15 minutes to 6 hours. See our known issue for the cause.
How to use it#
kevinn's advice, step by step:
- "Have each collector run catch up on the time since its last successful run (keep a timestamp in a file)."
- "Have your publishing routine check whether your scripts are running and start them if they aren't, so they come back after an update."
- "Keep the Grok Bot app open and connected while the pipeline needs to run."
Good to know#
- Catch-up only works when the data source keeps history, such as an API you can query by time. A live stream you missed is gone.
- The restart check runs only when the routine runs, and each run spends usage, per the routines help page.
- Files in /workspace carry over through an update. Running processes don't, kevinn said.
- We didn't build this pipeline ourselves. The pattern comes from staff.
Steps
- Have each script write the time of its last successful run to a file in /workspace.
- On each run, collect everything since that time, not only the last interval.
- Add a check to the start of your routine: if the scripts aren't running, start them.
- Keep the Grok Bot app open and connected while the pipeline needs to run.
Change my collector script in /workspace/collector so it saves the time of its last successful run to /workspace/collector/last_run.txt, and on each run fetches everything since that time. Then edit my publishing routine so it first checks whether the collector is running and starts it if not. Show me both changes before you save them.
