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Over the past few weeks, the top frontier labs (SpaceXAI, Meta, and OpenAI) have all shipped their own cloud agents.
These always-on agents are extremely powerful and, if used properly, can significantly boost your desktop productivity.
Each has its own strengths, weaknesses, and quirks you should know before fully committing to one.
In today’s read, we’re covering everything you need to know about these new agents.
How to pick the right one, how to actually use them for more productivity, and how to build your personal AI Chief of Staff (with real workflow examples included).
IN TODAY'S READ
Building Your AI Chief of Staff
After our main guide, stick around for the Midweek Edge for this week's AI news and Looking Ahead, where we compile our top AI research, trends, and workflows.
WEEKLY BUILD & WORKFLOW
Choosing the Right Cloud Agent
TL;DR: Dots, Muse, and Grok Bot can all handle a basic Chief of Staff setup.
Dots → Professional work
Muse → Personal/SMB
Grok Bot → Specialized work
Dots | Muse | Grok Bot | |
Best for | Professional work | Personal + small business | Specialist/niche work |
Best Chief of Staff setup | One agent across your projects and connected desktop apps | One agent that launches “Side Chats” | One Chief of Staff Bot coordinating other specialist agents |
Recurring work | Scheduled tasks + proactive research | Goals, reminders + background monitoring | Skills + Routines |
Strong fit for | Research, projects, meetings, work updates | Inbox, calendar, errands, business admin | Sales, support, recruiting, research, operations |
Where it stands out | Excellent context management, included in Pro plan | Easy to use, metadata access, good usage limits | Very good at research and can plug into 𝕏 directly |
Choose it if... | You want an agent for desktop work for your job | You want an agent primarily for SMB and personal tasks | You want several agents (an agent swarm) |
→ If you primarily want an agent for your 9-5 desktop job, Dots is probably the best starting point.
→ If you want a personal agent for outside of work, Muse makes more sense.
→ If you already know you want separate agents for research, sales, or other roles, Grok Bot gives you the most room to build a team around the Chief of Staff.
For this guide, the underlying system stays the same whichever one you pick.
Injecting Context
A Chief of Staff is only useful if it can see your work environments and ingest all your context.
We recommend starting with a few essential MCP connections so your agent can gather basic context:
Email: For replies, inbox triage, and general management
Calendar: For meetings, pre-call preparation
Work conversations: Ideally, you connect your Slack / other communication layers.
Documents and notes: Drive, Notion, ClickUp, or whichever workspace holds the context behind your projects.
Prompt: Set Up Your Chief of Staff
Paste this into Dots, Muse, or your Grok Chief of Staff Bot after connecting the sources you want it to use.
You are my Chief of Staff.
Your job is to keep me oriented across my work without making me check every source myself.
Use the email, calendar, work conversations, documents, and notes I have connected to you.
Pay particular attention to:
- work that needs my decision
- important messages I have not answered
- commitments or follow-ups I may have missed
- changes to active projects
- upcoming meetings that need preparation
- useful information connected to my current priorities
- work you can prepare before I need it
Keep routine noise out of my updates.
When something matters, tell me:
1. What changed
2. Why I need to know
3. What should happen next
4. Whether you can handle the next step or need me
You may research, organize, summarize, and prepare drafts without asking.
Ask before sending messages, changing meetings, publishing anything, spending money, or making commitments on my behalf.
When I tell you something was useful, irrelevant, or wrong, apply that feedback to future updates.
Start by reviewing the sources currently available to you and tell me what you can reliably cover.We also recommend having your agent “interview” you to gather more context about how you work, your goals, and who you are:
Building a Morning Brief
This should be your first recurring workflow.
Creating a “Morning Brief” that summarizes your highest-leverage tasks for the day.
Keep the brief short. A useful format is:
TODAY
→ The three things most worth your attention.
MEETINGS
→ What's coming up and what needs preparation.
MESSAGES
→ Only important threads that need a reply, decision, or follow-up.
CHANGES
→ Anything meaningful that moved across your active projects or research.
Example
Meeting Prep
Before an important meeting, your Chief of Staff can pull together the context that would normally require digging through old emails, notes, and documents.
For an external call, that might include:
→ Who you're meeting
→ The last conversation
→ Relevant emails
→ Important documents
→ A suggested agenda
For an internal meeting, the useful context may be different:
→ Current blockers
→ Progress since the last call
→ What you owe other people
Your Meeting Prep Prompt:
Give this to your agent once the calendar and relevant work sources are connected.
For important meetings on my calendar, prepare a short briefing before the meeting.
Only use information relevant to that meeting.
Include:
- who is involved
- the purpose of the meeting
- important context since the last interaction
- open commitments or unresolved questions
- documents or messages I should review
- decisions I may need to make
- a short suggested agenda
Keep the briefing concise enough to read in a few minutes.
If there is nothing useful to add beyond the calendar invite, do not pad the brief.Research Workflows
Your Chief of Staff can help with various research workflows (Grok Bot is best here):
→ Competitor research
→ Company research
→ General industry research
→ Clients research
Research Prompt:
Keep a running watch on:
[TOPIC]
Track meaningful changes from the sources available to you.
Do not send me recycled news or repeat information I already know.
For each useful update, give me:
- what changed
- the primary source
- why it is relevant to my work
- what is genuinely new
- whether I need to do anything
If several small updates point to one larger change, combine them rather than sending separate alerts.
Give me a clean summary every:
[DAY / TIME]
Only interrupt me earlier when the development is genuinely important.Remember: Grok Bot can plug into 𝕏 for real-time news and sources.
Muse can help if you’re running any research related to Meta (Meta ads, for example).
Weekly Review
You can also have your agent conduct a full weekly review.
What improved?
→ Projects, decisions, etc.
What slipped?
→ Missed follow-ups, blockers, and open tasks.
What needs me?
→ Anything that cannot scale without your decision.
Weekly Review Prompt:
Every Friday, review my activity from this week across the sources you can access.
Give me a concise weekly review with:
1. The most important progress
2. Decisions made
3. Open commitments
4. Missed or overdue follow-ups
5. Current blockers
6. Important research or project changes
7. The five things most likely to matter next week
Separate things I need to handle from things you can continue working on.
Do not turn this into a diary of everything that happened.
Prioritize what will help me start next week with the right context.The outcome should be a clean handoff from this week into the next.
Creating Recurring Workflows
Once the individual workflows are running, you can make them recurring.
With Dots, scheduled tasks run checks such as your morning calendar review, while proactive research runs in the background.
With Muse, your agent can conduct automated runs every 30 minutes to scan your Email and other connectors.
With Grok Bot, we recommend creating a skill and attaching a routine so it knows when to run.
This is also where Grok Bot can go further.
Your Chief of Staff can remain the generalist while deploying agent swarms.
For example:
→ Financial research Bot researches while you sleep
→ Email Bot sorts priorities and sorts trash
→ Chief of Staff Bot makes sure everything runs smoothly
MIDWEEK EDGE: Manually curated list of the most important weekly AI news updates
Weekly AI News Recap
→ The White House Officially Renames AI to “SI”. President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI”
→ SpaceXAI Is Becoming SpaceXSI. Elon Musk says SpaceX’s AI unit will be renamed SpaceXSI, following the White House’s shift to “Super Intelligence.”
No timeline yet.
→ Google Introduces Gemini 4 Argon. Google just introduced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model for long-horizon coding, professional work, and cybersecurity defense.
→ 1M-token limit
→ $2/M input + $10/M output introductory pricing
→ Built for coding, legal/finance work + autonomous cyber defense
No public access yet.
→ Markdown Files Now Natively Supported in Google Drive and Google Docs. Google is reportedly making .md files natively supported in Google Drive and Google Docs.
A good way to store your Claude and agent files on the cloud.
→ Reflection Introduces Beam. Reflection AI just introduced Beam, a new powerful model built for coding, reasoning, and general agentic work.
The full weights are expected later this month, but it’s essentially a competitor to ZLM and Qwen.
LOOKING AHEAD: Manually curated list of useful AI tools, skills, workflows & more
Tools and Research Worth Your Time
→ Top 10 Fastest-Growing Claude Skills
Quick use: Send the list to Claude and say:
“Inspect these repos, pick the 2–3 most useful for my workflow, and install only those.”
→ Claude Is Crushing ChatGPT on Subscription Value
SemiAnalysis found Opus 5.5 delivers ~5× the API-equivalent value of GPT-6.1 Sol for its agentic workload at the same $200/month price.
Note: this measures pure subscription capacity, not which model is better.
→ Top 50 Consumer AI Apps by Spend (per a16z research)
→ September’s AI Model Release Map
September was packed with major model drops across the industry.
Here’s a recap:
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