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title: "Skills and routines: teach it once | Grok Bot Guide"
description: "Skills and routines in Grok Bot: save a task that worked as a skill or show it once (Teach a task), set up a routine that runs on its own, check it with Test run, and keep an approval step before anything important."
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last-updated: "2026-10-30"
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# Skills and routines: teach it once | Grok Bot Guide

Skills and routines in Grok Bot: save a task that worked as a skill or show it once (Teach a task), set up a routine that runs on its own, check it with Test run, and keep an approval step before anything important.

[Getting started](https://www.lovelaceloom.com/grokbotguide/en/#modules)/Lesson 5

# Skills and routines: teach it once

Teach your bot how to do a task once, then decide when it runs on its own, even when your computer is off.

15 min

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