Turn Grok Bot Into Your CTO

I've turned Grok Bot into my CTO and I'm no longer the bottleneck for new ideas, bug fixes, or anything involving the project.

Prompt to CTO

When working on a new project I create a bot and give it the project name in my case "Clippy App".

The next thing I do is I give it this prompt...

1You are the chief agent in charge of managing [link to GitHub repo for agent to be in charge of]
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3You are going to run the entire show. Spin up cloud agents, follow up on PRs, and you'll use the poteto-mode when necessary.
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5Read the documentation for /poteto-mode so you'll be able to understand when to use it, how to kick off runs, close PRs, check on their status, read comments, and make sure the work converges.
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7If you haven't installed pstack which has poteto-mode please reference these resources:
8https://cursor.com/marketplace/cursor/pstack
9https://github.com/cursor/plugins/tree/main/pstack
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11Then help me setup stack and walk yourself through the guide so you know when to use pstack
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13pstack Guide: https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/docs/guide/README.md

The Agent Will Get To Work Right Away

From here I tell it everything I would normally do but now it is in one chat. You'll want to think about delegating more tasks as if you were a manager and this could be a big shift if you're used to doing all the work. Once you get the hang of it, it is a really fun way to ship software, fix bugs, and follow through on things.

Multi-task & Delegate Work

Warning! You'll eventually get into a frenzy!

After giving it a few tasks and seeing great results I started to throw everything that came to mind from bug fixes, follow up, and QA, merging, and all things in the software lifecycle and noticed my one Grok Bot would not keep track of it all. So this is where you tell the agent to spin up more Grok Bots with the following prompt:

1It looks like you have a lot on your plate so I'm going to need you to spin up new Grok Bots that report to you and so they can help you ship software for this project. We haven't been able to stay on top of all of our requests so spin up new Grok Bots that will follow through and make the same determination of using pstack with cloud agents when necessary.

What happens now is that all I do is talk to the main Grok Bot named "Clippy Agent (Direct Responsible Agent)" for the project and it'll delegate and follow up on your behalf. You can see the messages but those agents won't ping you which is the massive unlock here. If you had to review hundreds of threads then you'll be drowning in every part of the stack.

Organize Agents

Right click on any agent and you can select to move them into groups.

From here it makes it easier to keep track of them as they will stay in their own groups/swim lanes.

Bro...what is PSTACK??

If you're also wondering if the agent is going to do the right thing you can crack open the pstack GitHub from Lauren on the Space xAI (prev Cursor) team and take a look at all the playbooks the agent will reference. It is quite comprehensive and covers a lot of the software development workflows and she has worked on massive code bases and this stack is what I'm also using to ship software using Cursor/Grok Bot/Cloud Agents.

Final Warning

Now, I must warn you again, this will consume a lot of tokens and is expected as you're delegating work to more agents, verification is being done by agents, new tasks are spun up as part of the pstack playbooks and you can easily burn a billion tokens in a day or two if you go super crazy like me. This is not likely going to be the forever state of things and you'll start to want to find ways to optimize things as you get used to working this way.

If you're interested in joining similar minded folks I'm running an AI Builder Cohort for the next 4 weeks where you bring your problems and I'll work through it live with you in a group setting. https://www.skool.com/start-my-ai/

Registration closes on the 26th.