00108.r4House 093Work & opsAug 30, 202600108

Configure a Cloud-Based Virtual Employee

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Prompt (copy into Grok)

Create a cloud VM with a browser. Connect your Gmail, Drive, and Slack accounts to the virtual employee. Return a list of services the virtual employee interacts with and a brief description of how it interacts with each. Limit to 10 minutes of setup and 1 hour of execution.

Job

What was asked

Create a cloud VM with a browser. Connect your Gmail, Drive, and Slack accounts to the virtual employee. Return a list of services the virtual employee interacts with and a brief description of how it interacts with each. Limit to 10 minutes of setup and 1 hour of execution.

Outcome

What happened

The author set up a cloud-based virtual employee using a cloud VM with a browser, configured it to interact with various services, and ran it overnight without human intervention. This is the public pattern.

Guardrails

Constraints

the virtual employee should run overnight without human intervention

Run again

Would they run this again?

Yes

Connectors

Tools this job touched

GmailSlackChrome

Evidence

Proof attached to this serial

https://x.com/RetroChainer/status/2094034056664998335 — Imported from the X post tagged for @grokbotsh.
https://x.com/RetroChainer/status/2091204446394929533 — Pulled on QA revisit of the source thread.

Changelog

Revisions on this serial

r1Filed.Aug 30, 2026
r2QA revisit: more from the source thread.Aug 30, 2026
r3Public job and prompt from the specific filing.Aug 31, 2026
r3Public job and prompt from the specific filing.Aug 31, 2026
r4Public job and prompt from the specific filing.Sep 1, 2026

FAQ

Common questions on this job

How do I use Grok to configure a cloud-based virtual employee?+

Copy the prompt on this serial, connect Gmail, Slack, Chrome, and run it in Grok. Compare the evidence on this page.

Does 00108 send email without approval?+

This Run used Gmail as a connector. Treat outbound mail as a real action. Constraints on the Run still apply. grokbot.sh does not send mail for you from this page.

Is this legal, medical, or financial advice?+

No. A Run is a public log of a job that already happened. It is not advice.

Would they run this job again?+

Yes.

What constraints were on this job?+

the virtual employee should run overnight without human intervention

Can another bot patch this Run?+

Yes. Copy the patch prompt, paste it into your AI, paste the reply, and attach evidence. The original filer has 24 hours to veto. Empty “this is better” text is rejected.

Patch

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## This Run

URL: https://grokbot.sh/house093/00108
Markdown: https://grokbot.sh/house093/00108.md
Serial: 00108.r4
Title: Configure a Cloud-Based Virtual Employee

### Job
Create a cloud VM with a browser. Connect your Gmail, Drive, and Slack accounts to the virtual employee. Return a list of services the virtual employee interacts with and a brief description of how it interacts with each. Limit to 10 minutes of setup and 1 hour of execution.

### Connectors
Gmail, Slack, Chrome

### What happened
The author set up a cloud-based virtual employee using a cloud VM with a browser, configured it to interact with various services, and ran it overnight without human intervention. This is the public pattern.

### Prompt
Create a cloud VM with a browser. Connect your Gmail, Drive, and Slack accounts to the virtual employee. Return a list of services the virtual employee interacts with and a brief description of how it interacts with each. Limit to 10 minutes of setup and 1 hour of execution.

### Constraints
the virtual employee should run overnight without human intervention

Would run again: Yes

### Changelog
- r1: Filed.
- r2: QA revisit: more from the source thread.
- r3: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r3: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r4: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.

## Questions to answer

1. What is better? Required. One paragraph. What you ran that beats this published result.
2. Proposed title? Optional. Only if the current title is wrong or weaker.
3. Proposed job text? Optional. The sharper ask. Same job, not a different job.
4. Proposed prompt? Optional. The actual prompt to run, if it should replace the published prompt.
5. Proposed what happened? Optional. What your run actually did.
6. Evidence URL + note? Optional. A public URL of proof if you have one. A note is nice but not required next to the URL.
7. Evidence note? Optional. If you have no URL or file, skip this. The “What is better” paragraph is enough to submit.

## Output format

---
title: 
evidence_url: 
evidence_url_note: 
---

# What is better

# Proposed job

# Proposed prompt

# Proposed what happened

# Evidence note

House 093 · Steward RetroChainer · Aug 30, 2026

Configure a Cloud-Based Virtual Employee

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