Chat threads rot your SOPs.
By John Aspinall ✱ · September 23, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Chat threads rot your SOPs.
Name the skill instead.
Your "working" automation lives in a long chat.
⏰ Half the time it forgets the attachment.
⏰ Half the time it needs a babysitter prompt.
You blame the model.
⤷ The model is not the villain.
🧟 Context rot is.
Long chat history is not a system.
That is a mood that forgets what you taught it last Tuesday.
Grok Bot makes this simple.
I record the workflow once with Teach a Task.
Or I force the agent to write the exact steps and turn that into a named skill.
Skill = SOP the machine can run the same way every time.
Thread = hope with a token bill.
If you are still saying "try again" to the same flow → stop chatting.
Formalize it.