# The Bot Playbook

> Independent, unofficial directory of Grok Bot use cases and copy-paste setup prompts. Not affiliated with the makers of Grok Bot.

Each play is a real-world job: a short summary, the connectors it expects, an optional routine, and a setup prompt you paste into a new Grok Bot. The bot should draft and prepare. A person approves anything that sends, posts, pays, or changes data.

Quote a play by its page URL. Do not invent source links; a play with no source URL has none on purpose.

## Pages
- [Home](https://thebotplaybook.com/): Searchable directory of every play.
- [Templates](https://thebotplaybook.com/templates): The setup prompts, grouped by category.
- [Newsletter](https://thebotplaybook.com/newsletter): Signup for the daily note.
- [Sponsor](https://thebotplaybook.com/sponsor): Sponsorship tiers for the ticker, homepage slot, and newsletter.
- [Submit a play](https://thebotplaybook.com/submit): Send a use case to be considered.
- [Privacy Policy](https://thebotplaybook.com/privacy): What the site collects, including newsletter addresses and analytics.
- [Terms of Use](https://thebotplaybook.com/terms): How to use the prompts, submissions, and sponsorships.

## Categories
- [Personal productivity](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/personal-productivity): Start the day, protect one real block of focus, and close the week with a review short enough to finish.
- [Email and calendar](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/email-calendar): Triage what arrived overnight, walk into meetings prepared, and leave drafts instead of another unread pile.
- [Finance and expenses](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/finance-expenses): Turn receipts, subscriptions, and unpaid invoices into a picture you can check without opening five apps.
- [Research](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/research): Brief a topic, keep the sources attached, and show up to a reading group with questions instead of a tab explosion.
- [Crypto and markets](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/crypto-markets): A calmer read on prices, headlines, and risk. Briefings only — these plays do not tell you what to buy or sell.
- [Content and social](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/content-social): Turn notes into drafts you still edit, and keep replies in a queue you approve before anything goes out.
- [Small business](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/small-business): Follow up with leads, tell clients what happened this week, and catch quote requests before they go cold.
- [Faith and study](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/faith-study): Keep a reading plan, file sermon notes, and practice a passage without the bot inventing verses or preaching at you.
- [Home and life admin](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/home-life-admin): The household work that slips between calendar events: meals, renewals, chores, and the night before a trip.
- [Dev and coding](https://thebotplaybook.com/categories/dev-coding): Walk into review with a summary, write a standup from the commits, and turn a bug report into steps someone can follow.

## Plays
- [Bug repro notes](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/bug-repro-notes): Turns a messy bug report into steps, expected, actual, and what you still need to reproduce it. It does not claim a cause it has not seen. Category: Dev and coding. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: GitHub, Notes. On demand; no routine.
- [Calendar conflict watch](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/calendar-conflict-watch): Checks the next five weekdays for double-bookings, missing travel time, and holds that quietly collide with a real meeting. Category: Email and calendar. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar. Routine: Weekdays at 8:00 AM, local time.
- [Competitor one-pager](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/competitor-one-pager): Turns a company name into a single page: what they sell, who it's for, how they price if the price is public, and what changed lately. Category: Research. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Web search, Notes. Routine: Mondays at 9:30 AM, local time.
- [Content calendar keeper](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/content-calendar-keeper): Looks at the week's content calendar and tells you what is scheduled, what is still a title with no draft, and what is going out tomorrow. Category: Content and social. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar, Notes. Routine: Mondays at 10:00 AM, local time.
- [Daily reading companion](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/daily-reading-companion): Follows a reading plan you write down, points you at today's passage, and waits for your own note before it files anything. Category: Faith and study. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes, Google Calendar. Routine: Daily at 6:30 AM, local time.
- [Docs from the diff](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/docs-from-the-diff): When a pull request changes behavior a user could see, drafts the doc edit and lists the screens you would still need to verify. Category: Dev and coding. Difficulty: Advanced. Connectors: GitHub. Routine: Fridays at 1:00 PM, local time, for open PRs labeled docs.
- [Draft from voice notes](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/draft-from-voice-notes): Turns a messy voice-note transcript into a clean draft in your voice, and lists the facts it refused to guess. Category: Content and social. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes. On demand; no routine.
- [Focus block planner](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/focus-block-planner): Finds a 90-minute window on today's calendar and writes a plan for one task you name, including what to ignore until the block ends. Category: Personal productivity. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar. Routine: Weekdays at 8:30 AM, local time.
- [Follow-up drafter](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/follow-up-drafter): Finds threads you were supposed to answer and meetings that ended with no reply, then writes follow-ups you can send at the end of the day. Category: Email and calendar. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Gmail, Google Calendar. Routine: Weekdays at 4:30 PM, local time.
- [Friday client status](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/friday-client-status): Drafts a Friday note for each active client from this week's calendar and the bullet notes you kept — what shipped, what's next, what's stuck. Category: Small business. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar, Notes, Gmail. Routine: Fridays at 2:00 PM, local time.
- [Headline noise filter](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/headline-noise-filter): Reads a list of market headlines and separates numbered facts from predictions, so a noisy day does not become a to-do list. Category: Crypto and markets. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Web search, Notes. Routine: Weekdays at 12:00 PM, local time.
- [Household ops board](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/household-ops-board): Turns a shared chore list and this week's calendar into a Sunday board: who is doing what, what is overdue, and what can wait. Category: Home and life admin. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes, Google Calendar. Routine: Sundays at 5:00 PM, local time.
- [Invoice chase drafts](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/invoice-chase-drafts): Looks at a sheet of unpaid invoices and drafts a polite chase for anything past the date you set, ready for you to send. Category: Finance and expenses. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Sheets, Gmail. Routine: Tuesdays at 9:00 AM, local time.
- [Lead follow-up desk](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/lead-followup-desk): Reads a simple lead sheet and drafts the next follow-up for anyone who has gone quiet past the number of days you set. Category: Small business. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Sheets, Gmail. Routine: Weekdays at 9:15 AM, local time.
- [Meeting prep packets](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/meeting-prep-packets): Before an external meeting, pulls the last related mail and any doc you name into a one-page brief: why you're meeting, what's open, and two questions to ask. Category: Email and calendar. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive. Routine: Weekdays at 8:00 AM, for meetings in the next 24 hours.
- [Monthly cash snapshot](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/monthly-cash-snapshot): On the first of the month, summarizes the balances and totals you paste or keep in a sheet — money in, money out, and what changed since last month. Category: Finance and expenses. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Sheets. Routine: The 1st of each month at 8:00 AM, local time.
- [Morning inbox triage](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/morning-inbox-triage): Sorts the overnight inbox into reply, wait, and ignore, and leaves three draft replies ready for you to send yourself. Category: Email and calendar. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Gmail. Routine: Weekdays at 7:30 AM, local time.
- [Morning market note](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/morning-market-note): A weekday note on what moved overnight in the assets you list: price, how large the move is, and which headline is attached to it. Category: Crypto and markets. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Web search, Notes. Routine: Weekdays at 7:45 AM, local time.
- [One idea, three cuts](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/one-idea-three-cuts): Takes a single finished note and cuts it three ways — a short post, a slightly longer post, and a paragraph you could send to a friend — without adding new claims. Category: Content and social. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Notes. On demand; no routine.
- [Pantry meal plan](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/pantry-meal-plan): Plans a few dinners from a pantry list you keep, and writes a short grocery list of only the gaps — not a new cuisine every night. Category: Home and life admin. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes. Routine: Thursdays at 5:00 PM, local time.
- [Passage memory coach](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/passage-memory-coach): Quizzes you on a passage you are memorizing, from the wording you saved, and does not mark you wrong for a translation you didn't choose. Category: Faith and study. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Notes. Routine: Daily at 7:45 PM, local time.
- [Portfolio move explainer](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/portfolio-move-explainer): Compares the holdings in your sheet to yesterday's prices and explains which line items moved the total, without telling you what to do about it. Category: Crypto and markets. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Sheets, Web search. Routine: Weekdays at 5:00 PM, local time.
- [PR review prep](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/pr-review-prep): Summarizes a pull request you need to review: what changed, what to look at first, and which files are noise. Category: Dev and coding. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: GitHub. Routine: Weekdays at 9:00 AM, for reviews waiting on you.
- [Quote request screener](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/quote-request-screener): Screens new inquiry mail against questions you care about — budget, timing, and fit — and drafts a reply that asks only for what is missing. Category: Small business. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Gmail, Notes. Routine: Hourly from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on weekdays, local time.
- [Reading group prep](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/reading-group-prep): The night before a discussion, turns the chapter you name into a short recap plus questions you can actually ask the room. Category: Research. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes, Google Calendar. Routine: Daily at 7:00 PM, only if tomorrow's calendar has an event tagged reading-group.
- [Reading queue keeper](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/reading-queue-keeper): Keeps a short queue of things you meant to read, picks one for this week, and files a three-line note after you paste what you finished. Category: Personal productivity. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes. Routine: Sundays at 6:00 PM, local time.
- [Receipt to ledger](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/receipt-to-ledger): Reads receipt mail and photos in a folder, and appends date, merchant, amount, and a category to a simple expense sheet you can reconcile later. Category: Finance and expenses. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets. Routine: Daily at 6:00 PM, local time.
- [Renewal and appointment watch](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/renewal-and-appointment-watch): Catches upcoming renewals in mail and appointments that still need a form or a ride, a week before they happen. Category: Home and life admin. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Gmail, Google Calendar. Routine: Mondays at 8:30 AM, local time.
- [Reply drafts, not sends](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/reply-drafts-not-sends): Collects mentions and replies you paste or pull from X and writes answers you approve one by one. It does not post. Category: Content and social. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: X, Notes. Routine: Weekdays at 11:30 AM and 4:00 PM, local time.
- [Sermon note organizer](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/sermon-note-organizer): After a service, turns the messy notes you paste into a reference, the points you actually wrote, and questions you still have. Category: Faith and study. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Notes. Routine: Sundays at 1:00 PM, local time.
- [Source-annotated digest](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/source-annotated-digest): A weekday digest of a topic you choose, where every line has a source, a date, and a note when two sources disagree. Category: Research. Difficulty: Advanced. Connectors: Web search, Notes. Routine: Weekdays at 12:30 PM, local time.
- [Standup from commits](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/standup-from-commits): Writes yesterday, today, and blockers from your commits and open pull requests, in the short form a standup actually wants. Category: Dev and coding. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: GitHub. Routine: Weekdays at 9:00 AM, local time.
- [Study question prep](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/study-question-prep): The evening before a study group, builds questions from the passage and from last week's notes, and separates the text's questions from yours. Category: Faith and study. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Notes, Google Calendar. Routine: Daily at 6:00 PM, only if tomorrow has an event titled study group.
- [Subscription audit](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/subscription-audit): Once a month, lists recurring charges it can actually see in mail or a sheet, and marks the ones you have not used the service for in your own notes. Category: Finance and expenses. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Gmail, Google Sheets. Routine: First Monday of the month at 9:00 AM, local time.
- [Sunday weekly review](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/sunday-weekly-review): Closes the week from the calendar you actually lived and the notes you actually wrote, then picks three commitments for the next five days. Category: Personal productivity. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Google Calendar, Notes. Routine: Sundays at 4:00 PM, local time.
- [Support thread to FAQ](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/support-to-faq): Reads support mail you label and proposes FAQ entries only when the same question showed up more than once. Category: Small business. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Gmail, Notes. Routine: Thursdays at 11:00 AM, local time.
- [Topic briefing desk](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/topic-briefing-desk): You name a topic. The bot returns a one-page brief with what is known, what is disputed, and the links it actually used. Category: Research. Difficulty: Intermediate. Connectors: Web search, Notes. On demand; no routine.
- [Trip day checklist](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/trip-day-checklist): The evening before a travel day, builds a checklist from the itinerary you were emailed and the bag list you keep. Category: Home and life admin. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar, Gmail, Notes. Routine: Daily at 6:00 PM, only when tomorrow is a travel day.
- [Weekday startup brief](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/weekday-startup-brief): A short morning note from the calendar and the open loops you wrote down yesterday, so the day starts with three priorities instead of the inbox. Category: Personal productivity. Difficulty: Beginner. Connectors: Google Calendar, Notes. Routine: Weekdays at 7:00 AM, local time.
- [Weekly risk checklist](https://thebotplaybook.com/use-cases/weekly-risk-checklist): A Friday checklist over the positions and accounts you track: concentration, stale prices, and unlocks or expiries you wrote down yourself. Category: Crypto and markets. Difficulty: Advanced. Connectors: Google Sheets, Notes, Web search. Routine: Fridays at 3:00 PM, local time.