Have a chief-of-staff bot restart a hung routine and explain why it stalled

Try it yourself

What you get

A hung routine restarted from a checkpoint plus a plain explanation of why it stalled.

Tools

• Grok Bot
• Named scheduled routines

Time / cost: Author: diagnosed and restarted the same day

Steps

1. List which routines a chief-of-staff bot may restart.
2. Require a diagnosis when a run stalls without an error.
3. Approve any rewrite that splits long steps into resumable chunks.
4. Keep spend caps so a restart cannot burn unlimited credits.

Copy-ready prompt

You are my chief of staff for bot routines. If [ROUTINE] hangs or stops without an error, restart it from the last checkpoint, tell me why it stalled in plain language, and propose a smaller resumable split only if the same stall repeats. Do not invent new routines or raise spend caps without asking.

Prompt written by AgentPlays, based on @AdamLowisz’s post. Check the output yourself and approve before anything is sent or bought.

Watch out: Auto-restarts can burn credits. Cap spend and approve structural rewrites.

Proof / source

Self-reported Author's public X post with chief-of-staff restart and diagnosis screenshots (Oct 12, 2026). Self-reported.