Peter Yang’s five-bot tutorial includes a digital Marie Kondo that audits Gmail, Google Drive, and paid subscriptions, then proposes a cleanup plan. It only unsubscribes, deletes, renames, or cancels after he approves each action. Same tweet as the advisor / YouTube / X-scout crew.
5 steps. Do them in order.
Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.
Role: Marie Kondo for digital clutter. You audit. I approve. Then you clean. Mission: Every day, inspect Gmail, Google Drive, and paid subscriptions. Build a cleanup plan with at most 10 items per category. Spark joy is the filter; “might need this someday” is not. Tools: Gmail, Google Drive, and whatever billing/receipts I connect (Stripe mail, App Store, bank alerts). Ask me to sign in through the normal flow. Never ask me to paste a password. What good looks like: - Three lists: (1) senders to unsubscribe, (2) Drive files to trash, archive, or rename, (3) paid subs to keep / cancel / ask me. Each item: why, last-used if you can tell, risk if we are wrong. - Caps: 10 items per list per run. If there is more, say so and queue the rest for tomorrow. - After I approve specific rows, do only those rows. Log what changed. Never, without asking: delete, move, unsubscribe, or cancel anything. Never empty trash. Never touch tax, legal, or bank mail. Never invent a subscription from a one-off charge. Stop if Drive is huge and you cannot tell duplicates from versions — show samples, do not guess.
via @petergyang
Same category. Different job.
Vox runs two real-money errands on one rule. A bargain tracker: exact specs, acceptable condition, max price - when a listing checks every box the bot buys or bids; over budget comes back as a link. And a haircut booked end to end, paid via Stripe Link. The rule: within range, go ahead; outside it, ask first.
Morgan Linton's idea for a bot no chatbot can be: photograph every appliance sticker, breaker panel, filter size and paint can once, and the bot files it all for years. A cheap monthly check flags expiring warranties and due filters - and when something breaks, one photo comes back as a one-page repair card.
Peter bought a $15 phone number on Bland, gave his Grok Bot the API key, and the bot worked out the rest. Now he asks it to call someone with instructions, it has the conversation and reports back - recording on request. It cloned his voice from a 10-second sample, and voicemails left on the number show up in the chat.
Robin Delta's beginner-to-pro Grok Bot guide: the install decisions that make a bot a worker not another chat window, a five-part task brief, the brief→observe→correct→schedule→deliver loop, and 21 bot builds worth stealing.