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Engineering
How to put your bot on a schedule
Get the job right once, save the method as a skill (how), then create a routine — a scheduled task — for when it should run. Test with safe inputs before you enable it.
A safe order
- Get the job right once.
- Save the method as a skill (how).
- Create a routine (when): day, time, time zone.
- Run a test with safe inputs.
- Enable only when the test looks right.
Botski guidance, not a product step: get two successful manual runs or drills before unattended work or publication.
Pause or stop later
To stop later: pause or delete the routine. Hiding a Bot does not pause schedules. For a run already going, send Stop now.
Avoid “every few minutes” polls when an event or a sensible daily/weekly time will do.
How many times a routine can run
v0.75.5 of the official Grok Bot changelog (October 23, 2026) says your routines can run up to 300 times an hour in total instead of 100, and each routine up to 200 times. Grok Bot changelog
If a routine did not run
A missing report does not say where the job failed. Check whether it never started, stopped partway, or finished without an alert before you retry: Why did my Grok Bot routine not run?
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Sources
Fetched 2026-09-20 CT.
| Source | URL | Fetched | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official skills, routines, and automations | https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/skills-routines-and-automations | 2026-09-20 CT | — |
| Official Grok Bot changelog | https://x.ai/changelog/bot | 2026-10-25 CT | v0.75.5, October 23, 2026: your routines can run up to 300 times an hour in total instead of 100, and each routine up to 200 times. |
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