
jjenglert@jjenglert9h ago
My friend called me and asked the best way to set up personal agents for his daily life. So I made this video for him.
It takes you from zero to agents running, using the easiest and best 24/7 agent harness right now. All for $20 a month.
I already have tons of them running my personal life. One buys my groceries. One reads my email. One sends me something to learn every morning at 8 AM.
Here's the walkthrough, from easy mode to god mode.
Easy Mode: what @GrokBot actually is
Definition: a chat with a computer behind it. Grok Bot (from @cursor_ai and xAI) spins up one virtual machine in the cloud. Every bot you build shares it, and it stays on when your laptop is closed.
Two things to know:
1) It starts at a $20 a month Cursor Pro plan. It used to need the $300 tier.
2) Give every bot one job and a name. Mine is Barry. He's my personal assistant and he checks on the other bots every hour.
Hard Mode: giving your bots a credit card, an inbox, and a phone.
Definition: the stuff a bot needs to actually do things in the real world, not just talk about them.
Rules of thumb:
1) Payments. Don't put your credit card on the VM. It's beta. Use the Stripe Link CLI instead, so the card never sits on the machine. Then add a hard rule that the bot needs your yes before any purchase.
2) Email. Give your bot its own address. I use Agent Mail (free). Sign up for new services with it, send your junk there, and let the bot triage every six hours and only ping you when something needs a reply.
3) Phone. Give your bot a number and it can make reservations, call vendors, and take calls for you. I haven't set mine up yet, but people are already doing it.
God Mode: the fleet
Definition: a channel where your bots talk to each other and you only talk to the lead.
Rules of thumb:
1) Keep your bots small and specific to each task. Have an orchestra bot to help coordinate the rest.
2) Long threads plus frequent routines burn credits fast. Have each bot write a daily summary to one channel, then have your lead bot read that one channel instead of every conversation.
Full walkthrough: https://t.co/vDWnB24dne