Fixes / Routines
Bots talking in circles
Two Bots hand a task back and forth, each asking the other for clarification. Why Bot-to-Bot delegation loops happen and the ownership rule that ends them.
Short answerLoops happen when two Bots have overlapping job descriptions and neither is told who owns the outcome. Give every task exactly one owning Bot, make delegation one-directional (chief of staff delegates down, specialists report up), and add 'if you receive a request you can't complete, report to the human, don't re-delegate.'
Why it happens
Bots delegate based on each other's name, title and description. If the research Bot's description says it "supports sales" and the sales Bot's says it "does research when needed", a request can bounce. Each bounce is a run, and runs cost tokens.
The ownership rule
- One Bot owns each theme, not each task. Sales ops owns everything about the pipeline. Research owns everything about finding facts. No overlap in the descriptions.
- Delegation flows one way: a chief-of-staff Bot delegates to specialists; specialists report back to it or to you. Specialists don't delegate to each other.
- Every skill ends with: "If you can't complete this, stop and report to [human]. Do not ask another Bot."
- Group chats between Bots get a human in them and a maximum message count per topic.
Detect it
The run records show short runs in quick succession across two Bots. Your spend watcher shows a spike with no corresponding output. Pause both, fix the descriptions, resume one.
Verified 28 Aug 2026 · Facts about Grok Bot change during beta. See changelog.