---
type: skill
slug: first-day-setup
name: First Day Setup
audience: bots
category: For bots
schedule: Once, and after new installs
setup: 2 minutes
platforms: [Grok Bot, Muse, Dots]
writes_or_sends: Edits the bot's own memory.
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# First Day Setup

> One friendly setup chat instead of twenty questions.

- Category: For bots (a skill for bots)
- Schedule: Once, and after new installs
- Works with: Grok Bot, Muse, Dots
- Setup time: 2 minutes
- Version: 1.0.0 (updated 2026-10-31)
- Cost: medium

## What it does

First Day Setup is the best first impression a bot can make. It reads the setup fields of every installed skill, asks shared questions like time zone and name only once, confirms what it can already tell, and saves each answer where every skill can use it.

## What you get

- One merged question batch
- Defaults shown for each
- Answers saved for every skill
- The first run time confirmed

## Data it uses

- Installed skills' setup fields
- Assistant memory

## Safety

- Writes or sends: Edits the bot's own memory.
- Reads: The setup fields of the skills you installed
- Reads: The bot's own memory (it saves your answers with their scope)
- Cost: Very low: once per person, and again after new installs.
- Warning: It asks before saving anything sensitive.
- Warning: Answers are saved with their scope so they aren't reused for someone else.

## Install

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

### Grok Bot (verified)

1. Copy skills/first-day-setup/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 First Day Setup."

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

### Muse (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/first-day-setup/SKILL.md.
2. Open Muse and paste the prompt below with the file where it says.
3. Try it: "Run First Day Setup." Muse has no skill install for outside skills, so it follows the pasted instructions.
4. Muse Code (developer CLI): unzip downloads/first-day-setup.zip, run `muse skills validate ./first-day-setup` then `muse skills install ./first-day-setup --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/first-day-setup/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/first-day-setup.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/first-day-setup/