Give your Dot an overnight brief with spending rules

“Surprise me by morning,” no spending, don’t touch existing projects: 3 GitHub projects, an audited draft PR, 193 tests passed.

In short

What it does: “Surprise me by morning,” no spending, don’t touch existing projects: 3 GitHub projects, an audited draft PR, 193 tests passed.

Agent: ChatGPT Dots · Category: Personal assistants

Steps in brief:

  1. Set the rules: spend nothing, leave existing projects alone, work all night.
  2. Say “Surprise me by morning.”
  3. Handle sign-in and permission approvals when it asks.

+2 more steps in the copyable prompt.

Who made it: Himanshu Jha (X post, 1 Oct 2026) · source

Last updated · based on 336 use cases on agentsetups, each credited to its author.

by Himanshu Jha1 Oct 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: See what my Dot can do unsupervised overnight.
Setup: agents used in source: ChatGPT Dots; tools/MCPs stated: GitHub, Blender.
Steps:
1. Set the rules: spend nothing, leave existing projects alone, work all night.
2. Say “Surprise me by morning.”
3. Handle sign-in and permission approvals when it asks.
4. In the morning, review the work (here 3 new GitHub projects, an independently audited draft PR, 193 targeted tests passed, 3 DevRel applications).
5. Optional: have it visualise the night’s work (he got a Blender city).
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Himanshu Jha — https://x.com/jhahimanshu653/status/2105521799178137706

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Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
ChatGPT Dots
Tools
  • GitHub
  • Blender

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