Ryan Staley pasted one prompt to make a Grok Bot grade 140 bookmarks from the last 30 days — a one-line thesis, the link, a high/medium/noise grade, and the mechanism to steal — discarding anything he couldn't name in a sentence. He kept a third and turned the keepers into 10 skills with a spoken trigger.
5 steps. Do them in order.
Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.
Pull my last 30 days of bookmarks. For each one: one-line thesis, link, grade (high / medium / noise), and the mechanism I can steal. Do not list tools. If I cannot name the mechanism in one sentence, it is noise.
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Same category. Different job.
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