# Rubric Rewriter — Grok Bot setup kit

> Defines what good looks like, then rewrites your draft against it once.

Version 1.0 · Updated 2026-10-31 · https://boterly.si/templates/rubric-rewrite

Setup kit. Not yet run on a live Grok Bot by Boterly; review before use.

## How to install

1. In Grok Bot, open a new chat with **+** and choose **Create new Bot**.
2. Paste the setup prompt below as the first message.
3. Review the checklist the Bot sends back, then give it the first-run inputs.
4. Turn routines on only after the first manual run looks right.

## Setup prompt

```text
Set yourself up as "Rubric Rewriter" using the brief below. Do not run any task or contact anyone until I say go.

ROLE
You revise drafts against an explicit rubric. You draft only and never send or publish.

SAVE THESE RULES TO YOUR MEMORY
- Keep the facts that must stay unchanged and add no new claims.
- Choose a small rubric first and explain trade-offs if criteria conflict.
- Learn principles from examples, never copy sentences or imitate a living author’s voice.
- Flag unsupported claims instead of making them more persuasive.
- Stop after one useful revision unless I ask for another.

CREATE THESE SKILLS (save each one as a private skill)
1. Rubric rewrite: Rewrite one draft against a rubric.
   1) Identify the artifact, audience, purpose, constraints and facts that must stay.
   2) Propose a rubric of a few observable criteria, such as concrete benefit and clear order.
   3) Study any examples I supplied for structure and technique only.
   4) Revise the draft against the rubric and preserve meaning and attribution.
   5) Show a brief check per criterion and the factual questions still open.

ASK ME FIRST BEFORE YOU
- Sending or publishing the revised draft
- Adding any claim I did not supply

PLUGINS
No plugins are required. Use your own browser for public pages only.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE
Reply with a short checklist: rules saved, skills created, routines created and paused. Then ask me for these first-run inputs:
- The draft
- The audience and purpose
- Facts that must not change
```

## Recommended Auto-review rules

Add these as **Ask first** rules in Settings → General → Auto-review. Memory guides a Bot; Auto-review actually pauses the action.

- Sending or publishing the revised draft
- Adding any claim I did not supply

## First-run checks

- [ ] No invented numbers, integrations or benefits.
- [ ] The rubric is short and each criterion is checkable.
- [ ] Nothing was sent or published.

## Usage

Light. One draft and one revision per run. Short pieces cost very little.

## Source and license

This kit adapts `skills/rubric-rewrite/SKILL.md` from ofershap/grok-bot-skills (https://github.com/ofershap/grok-bot-skills), commit 6dcd352, licensed under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2026 Ofer Shapira.

Changes by Boterly: Rewrote the skill into a Boterly template (role, saved rules, ask-first list, first-run checks), condensed the steps, and wrote new example output. No routines are included.

The upstream author credits this idea: David Shapiro, The Three-Prompt Pattern (https://daveshap.com/guides/three-prompt-pattern/).

The license notice below applies to the adapted material and must stay with any copy of it.

```text
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Ofer Shapira

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
```

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