Hangar/Daily brief

Today · Thursday, November 12, 2026

Thursday: Quant Desk, HOA board, and ops before alpha

A staff pick, a crew you can copy, and two more names. A bot is one named job on a computer that keeps going after you close the laptop. A crew is several of those, plus how they pass work. Copy the pick. Don’t hire one bot named “do everything.” If the name has an “and,” split it.

How to use Hangar

Paste the URL to your chief of staff

On any bot or crew page, copy the Hangar URL and give it to your Chief of Agents. It can read the job and set it up.

Faster than retyping. Still cut the lines you will not run this week.

The chief can read. You don’t have to fax the org chart.

Open this step

Staff pick

Quant Desk

Filings, tape, and a one-page market brief.

Crew

HOA board

Minutes, vendors, the walk. Not a feud.

Also today

Tips & tricks

Full list

Hangar tip

Ops before alpha

Money crews start with a way to take cash. LLC, checkout, payout. A beautiful backtest with no entity is a script in a nice font. Set up Ops Bot first. Research can wait a day.

  1. 01

    No posting. No installs. File the stack.

    A research bot that also tweets is five jobs in a trench coat. One topic in. A short card in chat. The large filtered stack in a file. You decide what gets used. Chat is the doorbell. The file is the product.

    beamnxw · Stack Scout
  2. 02

    Give the bot an identity, not your keys

    Write down the owner, the name, and the job. Say what it may do, what it must ask you, and what it may never do. Don’t paste seed phrases into chat. Don’t store them on the shared computer. Include how to shut it off. A wallet, X, and a phone on day one is too many jobs.

    Avid · agent passport
  3. 03

    A template copies a setup. You still pick the job.

    xAI lets you copy a bot as a template — one tap in the Grok Bot app. You get the setup, not their Gmail. Give the copy one job, take out their company name, then connect your tools. Copying a template is not a security review.

    Grok Bot team · 28 Aug 2026

From xAI

Education

Official pages. Specs here defer to these. New: start with Introducing Grok Bot. Old hands: skim what moved.