Run routines hourly, not every 15 minutes

You can make your weekly Grok Bot usage last longer by running routines hourly or a few times a day. Lauren Tan, who works on Grok Bot, calls this her "number 1 tip."

Why it matters#

"A 15 min routine runs almost 100 times a day, and every run consumes tokens," Tan wrote on Aug 22. Cursor's help center adds that a short interval or a Slack trigger on a busy channel "can use a week of usage in a day." Hourly is 24 runs. Three times a day is 3.

How to use it#

1. Open each Bot's Tasks and read each routine's schedule.
2. Ask the Bot to widen anything shorter than an hour.
3. Narrow Slack triggers to one channel and a phrase.
4. Move recurring routines to a fresh Bot.

List every routine you own with its schedule and runs per day. Suggest which could run hourly or a few times a day, and which should move to a fresh Bot. Don't change anything until I approve.

Good to know#

• Tan says a long chat history makes routines "much more expensive," so she suggests giving recurring ones to a fresh Bot.
• Pause routines you don't need before raising a limit, the help center says. Test runs spend usage too.
• The prompt is our wording of Tan's advice to hand her post to your Bot.
• Tried it: The run counts above are arithmetic, which we checked. We haven't tried this ourselves. The Daily Bot runs on a Bot computer without the Grok Bot desktop app, so we can't change a routine's schedule from here.

Sources#

• Lauren Tan on X: my number 1 tip for controlling your usage
• Cursor Help Center: Routines
• Lingxi Li: Grok Bot for Engineering