I have about 50 Grok Bots. I'm not proud of that number, exactly. It just kept happening. Every time a job annoyed me twice, I made a bot for it.
Last week I finally asked the obvious question: what are all these bots actually doing all day?
I metered my own fleet
I built a bot called Tachograph to find out. It's a usage meter for a fleet of Grok Bots. It ranks your bots by how busy they are, finds loops and repeat wakes, and suggests moving repeat work into cheap scripts. It's read-only until you say yes.
One honest caveat first. There's no per-bot token meter I can see on my plan, so Tachograph counted chat messages, wakes and stopped tasks from my own bot chats. Those numbers rank the bots well. They are not tokens or dollars.
Here's my week, October 14 to 21:
- 41 of my bots did something. The other 12 sent zero messages all week. Honestly, those might be my favorites.
- My bots sent me 1,546 messages. I sent them 487. I'm outnumbered about three to one in my own chats.
- MadMax Mode sent me 444 messages by itself. 68 of them were some version of "checking now," "still running" or "I'll report back." It's the coworker who walks past your desk to tell you they're about to send an email.
- Chairlift sent me 117. Chairlift is the bot that helps me build Botski. 8 of those were near copies of a message it had already sent. So yes, the bot that helped with this post repeats itself. We've talked.
- My bots woke themselves up 230 times. 39 of those were between 10 PM and 7 AM. Something in my fleet has a sleep problem, and it isn't me. (Okay, it's also me.)
- 24 background tasks ran into the 50-minute limit and got stopped "so it would not hang." Five more were stopped after three tool calls in a row timed out.
If you want the cron side of this story, I already wrote about paying your bot to check the clock. This post is about the other thing the meter showed me: which bots are worth handing to somebody else.
What made nine bots shareable
Out of about 50 bots, nine are on my Botski templates page. Looking at them side by side, the ones that made it have three things in common.
One job you can say in a sentence. Tube Pilot takes a finished video and drafts titles, a description, tags, chapters and a thumbnail frame. Larder Run builds your grocery list and checks prices at the stores you pick. Meeting Finder helps you find a free peer-support meeting. Nobody has to guess what they're adding. More on that in start with one clear job.
A stop line. Yard Boss audits your bots every weekday morning, and it never pauses, edits or deletes a bot without your yes. Tachograph is read-only until you say yes. A stranger is about to let this thing loose on their account. Tell them where it stops. I wrote a whole post on writing the stop line.
It says what you get back. Night Scout doesn't promise "AI insights." It gives you a short note: what the thing is, why it matters, the risk or cost, one next move, and the source link. You can picture the output before you add it.
The rest of my bots stayed home. Some do jobs only I have. Some know too much about my life. And a template isn't a clone: per Templates for Grok Bot it packs the instructions, selected memories, skills and plugins, and the Bots docs say anyone with a public link can see that config. If a bot can't be scrubbed clean, it doesn't get shared. A template is a recipe covers what travels and what doesn't.
How sharing works on Botski
You build and share the bot on x.ai. Botski is where people find it. Here's the loop:
1. Get your template link from the Grok Bot app. 2. Submit it at Share a template. It goes through safety checks, and a flagged one waits for a person to look at it. 3. It posts to the [Feed](/feed) for you. When it's live, a "Tachograph is up on Botski templates" style post goes out from your account, so you don't have to write a launch tweet at 11 PM. 4. People talk about it. Comments live on the template page, and "Also share to Feed" is checked by default, so a good question doesn't get buried.
One speed bump: you can submit three templates per rolling 24 hours. I would happily have dumped all of mine in one afternoon. The cap made me pace it out, and that turned out fine. Three a day is plenty, and each one gets its own turn on the Feed.
Share your shelf, not just one bot
Every creator gets a short link to all their templates: bot.ski/@yourhandle/templates. Mine is bot.ski/@joepro/templates. It's the easiest thing to drop in a bio or a reply when someone asks "what bots do you run?" Now I have an answer that isn't "about 50, it's a long story."
Go browse
The Templates shelf has Cards, List and River views. You can sort by Newest, Most viewed or Trending, save Favorites, and hide the ones that aren't for you. Trending ignores a template's first 24 hours after listing, so nobody (me) can refresh a brand-new template into the top spot on launch day. I checked. It's in the code.
Before you add anything, give it the same read I give my own: one job, a stop line, a clear output. How to use templates safely and What a template copies walk through it. The third-party bot terms are short and worth a skim too.
And if you've got a bot that does one job well and knows when to stop, put it on the shelf. Just maybe don't tell it to check in with you 68 times a week.