Coding

Watch Cursor spend every evening and log the meter

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min (estimated)
  • Evidence Anecdotal
  • CostNot stated in source
  • No-codeYes
Grok BotSource-linkedBeginner-friendly

What they did

Rusty Moore shared the exact Grok Bot routine a friend uses: every day at 6pm it opens the Cursor spending dashboard read-only, reports weekly usage %, reset timing, whether on-demand spending is still off, and an activity estimate — then screenshots and appends a log row.

How it went

Author reconstructed the live routine from the bot's memory and published the cleaned steps; friends asked how. Read-only guardrails are explicit

Worth knowing

  • Requires a one-time Cursor login on the bot computer.
  • Usage per task is not official — treat activity lists as estimates only.
  • Author reconstructed the live routine from the bot's memory and published the cleaned steps; friends asked how. Read-only guardrails are explicit.

Prompt

Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.

Every day at [6pm my timezone], open https://cursor.com/dashboard/spending (read-only — never change settings, caps, or on-demand). Send me a short message with: Grok Bot weekly usage %, when it resets, how many points moved since yesterday's reading (call out week resets so they do not look like drops), whether on-demand spending is still off, and a quick list of what my bots worked on since yesterday labeled as an activity estimate. Save a screenshot and append a row to a running log. Never invent numbers; if the page cannot be read, say so.

Recommended

Try it in Grok Bot

  1. Copy the prompt (button below).
  2. Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
  3. Connect the listed tools (Browser, Cursor) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
  4. If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."

Alternatives: the same prompt works in Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.

Set it up

Tools: Browser, Cursor · Stack: Grok Bot

  1. Read the original source for full context.
  2. Connect the tools your agent needs.
  3. Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
  4. Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.

Generic suggested steps, not from the source.

Evidence

Author reconstructed the live routine from the bot's memory and published the cleaned steps; friends asked how. Read-only guardrails are explicit

Source: X · 2026-10-10 · Verified by us: not yet · Report broken or outdated

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