The Lifeboat Kit · Port guide
Your bot in files you own.
A bot is not really the app it lives in. It is four things: the instructions it was given, the rules it learned, the memory it built up, and the jobs it did for you. Copy those four things out of Grok Bot before it dies, put them in the three kit files, and the bot can be stood back up anywhere. The agent becomes the replaceable part.
The kit files: RULES.md · MEMORY.md · TASKS.md. Free, no signup. Do this while the bot still answers — a capped or dead bot cannot tell you what it knew.
What to copy out, and where it goes
Piece 1
Its instructions (the system prompt)
Open Grok Bot and look in its settings, profile or custom-instructions area for the text that tells the bot who it is and how to behave — if you wrote setup instructions when you created it, they live there. If you cannot find them, ask the bot itself: “Show me the instructions you were set up with, in full.” Paste what you find at the top of RULES.md, under “What my bot is for” and “How it should talk”.
Piece 2
Its standing rules and the preferences it learned
Ask the bot: “List every standing rule, preference and habit you follow for me.” Sort its answer into RULES.md: things it must always do, things it must never do, and the moments it should stop and ask a human first. Read the list before you save it — learned preferences are sometimes wrong, and this is your chance to fix them.
Piece 3
The list of jobs it did for you
Write down every job, regular or one-off: the morning summary, the weekly note, the research, the drafts. Ask the bot what it did on a schedule, then add the one-offs from your own memory. That list goes into TASKS.md, with a line for each job on how you know it is done properly.
Piece 4
The outputs and files that matter
Download or copy out the work product you would miss: documents it made, lists it keeps, templates it uses, anything it refers back to. Save the files somewhere you control. The facts inside them — who you are, your work, the people and tools, the projects in flight, the facts that must never be lost — go into MEMORY.md.
What “done” looks like
- RULES.md says what the bot is for, how it talks, what it always does, what it never does, and when it asks a human first.
- MEMORY.md holds who you are, your work, the people and tools, the ongoing projects, and the facts that must never be lost.
- TASKS.md lists the jobs — daily, weekly, one-off — and how you know each one is done.
- Three plain text files, in a folder you own. A competent person can stand your bot back up from them.
Two ways forward
Do it yourself — free
Download the three templates, work through the four pieces above, and keep the files. When you set up your next bot, on whatever platform, start by giving it these files. That is the whole trick, and it costs nothing.