---
type: skill
slug: application-rules
name: Your Application Rules
audience: people
category: Careers
schedule: Always on
setup: 10 minutes
platforms: [Grok Bot, Muse, Dots]
writes_or_sends: Read-only. It changes only when you give a new rule.
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# Your Application Rules

> Answer every application question once, never twice.

- Category: Careers
- Schedule: Always on
- Works with: Grok Bot, Muse, Dots
- Setup time: 10 minutes
- Version: 1.0.0 (updated 2026-10-31)
- Cost: medium

## What it does

Your Application Rules is the one place your standing answers live: how to describe your degree, your start date, pay expectations, work authorization, demographic preferences, and anything you never want claimed. Every resume, form and note follows it, and your bots only ask about what's genuinely new.

## What you get

- One rulebook every bot reads first
- Standard answers filled without asking
- One batched question list for anything new
- Dated rules, so the newest always wins

## Data it uses

- Assistant memory, a notes page, or a shared doc

## Safety

- Writes or sends: Read-only. It changes only when you give a new rule.
- Reads: The rulebook it keeps in memory or a notes page you choose
- Cost: Very low: read before each application task, updated only when you give a new rule.
- Warning: Drafts only: nothing is submitted, applied for, or sent without your explicit OK.
- Warning: Keep only answers you're comfortable reusing; it never invents a rule.

## Install

- SKILL.md: https://botplaza.lol/skills/application-rules/SKILL.md
- Zip: https://botplaza.lol/downloads/application-rules.zip
- JSON: https://botplaza.lol/skills/application-rules.json
- Ready prompt: https://botplaza.lol/api/install?slug=application-rules&platform=grok (or muse, dots)
- MCP: call install_skill with slug "application-rules" at https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp

### Grok Bot (verified)

1. Copy skills/application-rules/SKILL.md (the whole file, including the --- header).
2. Open a one-to-one chat with your Grok Bot and paste the prompt below, with the file where it says.
3. Try it once now: "Run Your Application Rules."

Note: Skills and routines are saved by asking the Bot; no settings to dig through.

### Muse (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/application-rules/SKILL.md.
2. Open Muse and paste the prompt below with the file where it says.
3. Try it: "Run Your Application Rules." Muse has no skill install for outside skills, so it follows the pasted instructions.
4. Muse Code (developer CLI): unzip downloads/application-rules.zip, run `muse skills validate ./application-rules` then `muse skills install ./application-rules --scope user`. Optional: add the BotPlaza connector (https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp) under mcpServers in ~/.config/muse/settings.json.

Note: Recurring tasks and Muse Code skill install are documented by Meta. Installing outside skills in the Muse app is not.

### Dots (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/application-rules/SKILL.md.
2. Paste the prompt below into your dot's conversation in ChatGPT, with the file where it says.
3. Optional: in ChatGPT, Plugins > + > Add custom MCP server with https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp (no authentication). Dots can use installed plugins, but OpenAI hasn't said whether that includes custom ones.
4. Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu workspaces can also upload downloads/application-rules.zip under Plugins > Skills > Create > Upload from your computer.

Note: Dots are available on ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise, and are still rolling out. Pasting instructions in and scheduled check-ins are documented.

Page: https://botplaza.lol/skills/application-rules/