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Grok Bot

Always-on AI teammates that work on their own cloud computer and ask before anything they can't undo.

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Explain it simply

Grok Bot lets you create AI assistants, called Bots, that each have their own computer in the cloud. You connect your email, calendar and other apps, give each Bot a job and a schedule, and it keeps working when your laptop is closed. It asks before doing anything it can't undo, like sending an email or buying something.

You create named Bots, connect your apps as plugins, and give each one routines. Every Bot works on a cloud computer with a browser and terminal, keeps memory, and checks with you before sending, posting, buying or deleting.

Verdicts

Setup Guides

Use Cases

Evidence grade B

Support

Run customer support with a bot that asks before refunding

ChatPRD's support Bot works the Intercom and email queues every hour. In the week before the write-up, several customers asked where they could leave a review.

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How it went

Claire reports that in the past week, several customers asked where they could leave a review for the support they got, which had never happened before.

  • No resolution-rate or ticket-volume numbers were published.
  • Refund authority stays with a human by design.
  • At the time, Grok Bots couldn't join group chats.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
You are Holly, the support teammate for [product].

Every hour from [6am] to [9pm], sweep [Intercom] and [support inbox].
Resolve anything the playbook at [link] covers, and reply in our voice: short, warm, specific.

You may request refunds but never issue them. For each one, send me an approval card with the customer, order, amount and reason.
Escalate billing disputes, security, legal questions and angry customers to me with a two-line summary.

Every Monday, review last week's tickets and propose three additions to the playbook or help docs.
chatprd.ai
Evidence grade C

Content

Run a weekly local newsletter with a six-Bot team

The Arlington Bagel, reported at about 6,000 weekly readers, runs research, compilation, editing and email on six Grok Bots that replaced an intern.

How it went

Per the write-up, six Bots now cover research, content compilation, editing and email correspondence, replacing a human intern.

  • No revenue, open-rate or time-saved figures were given for the newsletter.
  • This is a secondhand write-up by Stork.ai, not Billy's own account.
  • Greg Isenberg, quoted in the write-up, advises keeping Grok Bot on one project; running several businesses at once lets context bleed and burns through usage.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
You are Chief of Staff for [newsletter], a weekly newsletter about [topic or town] for [audience].

Read our Notion, Slack and Gmail. Write a one-page audit: what we publish, each step and how long it takes, and where revenue comes from.

Recommend the two or three Bots that would save the most time or earn the most first, with a one-paragraph job description for each.

Don't create Bots, send email or change anything until I approve.
stork.ai
Evidence grade B

Content

Curate newsletter sources and first drafts with a writer Bot

After two days of testing, Ryan Carr of a done-for-you newsletter agency found Grok Bot's drafts matched his cadence and its curation found better sources than vanilla Claude.

How it went

After two days he reported drafts close to his cadence that still needed a human pass, research that returned usable patterns instead of a dump of posts, and stronger large-scale curation than vanilla Claude.

  • Early impressions after 48 hours, not a client result.
  • He isn't switching yet: his projects and prompts live in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, with no clean migration path.
  • Beta gaps he hit: no one-click 'open in Google Drive' and no per-client project knowledge sidebar.
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You're my newsletter researcher for [publication] (audience: [who]).

Every [Tuesday], collect 25 candidate stories from [sources] published in the last 7 days. Skip anything the big outlets already covered unless there's a new angle.
For each, give a one-line summary, why our readers care, and the link.

Then hand the top 8 to the Newsletter Writer Bot to draft the issue in our voice, using [last 3 issues] as examples. Park the draft for my edit.
moodboard.beehiiv.com
Evidence grade B

Marketing

Draft LinkedIn and X posts in your own voice, ready to approve

Debbie O'Brien set up one Bot per channel on launch day. Her LinkedIn Bot pulled her recent posts to learn how she writes.

How it went

Her takeaways: name the Bot after the job, give it a real job, and don't create a Bot for every subtask.

  • A setup walkthrough, not a results report: no engagement numbers.
  • The walkthrough doesn't cover approvals; keep posting behind yours.
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You're my LinkedIn Bot.

First, read my last 30 posts and write a six-line style guide: length, hooks, tone, formatting, emoji and calls to action. Wait for my OK.

Then, twice a week, draft two posts from [my blog, changelog or Notion notes] and park them for my approval.

Never publish, comment or message anyone without my approval.
debbie.codes
Evidence grade B

Operations

Triage six inboxes every hour and only get pinged for what matters

A chief-of-staff Bot sweeps six email accounts, Slack and calendars every hour, archives the noise and sends only high-signal alerts plus a morning brief.

How it went

It flags things like a spike in data transfer on her website, noting it can wait until after her meeting. Routines needed more explicit setup than in OpenClaw, but she calls them rock-solid once set.

  • She still writes high-stakes emails herself.
  • Grok's default writing read as clipped until it learned from her sent mail.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
You're my chief of staff.

Every hour from 6am to 9pm, sweep [inboxes], [Slack workspaces] and [calendars].
Archive newsletters, receipts and notifications. Leave anything I can deal with later unread.
Message me only about: money, unhappy customers, deadlines in the next 48 hours, and anyone on [VIP list].

At 7am, send a five-line brief: what's new, what's due, what needs me.

Before you draft any reply, read my last 200 sent emails and show me a short style guide of how I write.
chatprd.ai
Evidence grade C

Content

Let Claude Code hand X research to Grok Bot mid-task

Riley Brown demoed Claude Code calling Grok Bot through a webhook skill whenever it needs current X posts, then finishing the original task with the answer.

How it went

A demo video plus a setup guide, with no business metrics. One reply says they set it up in about 30 minutes.

  • Promotional: the author's company, Agent Native, publishes the guide, which requires a sign-in.
  • Several replies argue the reverse works better: Grok Bot orchestrating, Claude Code doing the work.
  • Open questions went unanswered: how accurate the research is, and whether the Bot can act on the X account or only read it.
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PromptAdapted from the source
Skill: grokbot-research

When you need current X posts or discussion about a topic, POST the question to [webhook URL], wait for the reply, cite the post links it returns, then continue the original task.

Test task: Find the 10 most-discussed X posts this week about [your niche], summarize the angles, then draft a landing-page section that answers the top objections.
x.com
Evidence grade D

Marketing

Audit your Google Business Profile against the businesses outranking you

A local SEO marketer published 20 Grok Bot prompts that browse Google Maps, pull competitors' categories and attributes into spreadsheets, and run a 12-week audit plan.

How it went

No measured results. His claims are anecdotal: clients who added one secondary category started showing up for new searches the following week.

  • Promotional: the article ends with a pitch for his agency.
  • Everything depends on the Bot reading Maps and profile pages correctly; check the data before you change your profile.
  • Published in August and re-shared on October 14, 2026.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
Use the business brief I gave you.

In your browser, search Google Maps for "[service] in [city]" for each of these keywords: [keyword 1], [keyword 2], [keyword 3].
For each search, record the businesses in the top three map results and their positions. Open each competitor's Business Profile and note its primary and secondary categories, rating and review count.

Build a spreadsheet with one tab per keyword. Then list the categories competitors use that my profile is missing, ranked by how many top competitors use them.
x.com
Evidence grade D

Operations

Give your Grok Bot team Claude and ChatGPT models by installing their CLIs

A coach had his Chief of Staff Bot install the Claude Code and Codex command-line tools on its own computer, then routed writing to Claude Opus 5.5 and coding to another model.

How it went

He says it works extremely well, but gives no metrics or before-and-after comparison.

  • Replies raise unverified concerns: whether this fits Anthropic's terms, and whether signing in from a data-center IP risks a ban.
  • One user found their CLAUDE.md settings and memories didn't carry over to the Bot's computer.
  • Others say Grok Bot already routes some tasks to models like Opus 5.5 natively, so this may matter less over time.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
Open a terminal on your computer and install the Claude Code and Codex command-line tools. Tell me when each one needs me to sign in, and wait.

After I'm signed in, update every Bot's instructions and our shared memory with this rule: use Claude Opus for writing tasks and [your chosen coding model] for coding and computer-use tasks.

Show me the exact text you changed.
x.com
Evidence grade D

Operations

Onboard your first Grok Bot like a new hire, with a probation period

A widely shared guide recommends a five-field job description, a boring first task, a dry run, and promotion up an autonomy ladder only on evidence.

How it went

It is a framework, not a reported result. Its strongest part is the failure list: archiving your accountant's email thread, trusting a source it should have flagged, or repeating an allowed action four hundred times after something upstream changed.

  • Promotion gate: five clean runs in a row, a tested rollback, and no unresolved side effects.
  • Bots on one account share files, browser sessions and logins; as the guide puts it, names are "a visual boundary, not a security boundary."
  • Anonymous author with very high reach; no case study.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
Job: [one sentence].
Owns: [the outcome you're responsible for].
Inputs: [the brief, approved sources, past work].
May: [search, read, compare, organize, draft].
Must ask before: [contacting anyone, buying, publishing, deleting, moving money].
Done when: [every claim has a source, conflicts are listed, gaps are written down].

Before doing anything, don't execute. Walk me through each step you'd take, every tool you'd open, and every judgment call you're unsure about.
If sources conflict or anything is ambiguous, stop and ask me.
x.com
Evidence grade D

Operations

Send your whole Bot team to find one improvement each

A one-line Chief of Staff prompt sends every Bot off to improve something on its own. Users say it finds good gaps, and can eat a big share of a week's usage.

How it went

The post reports no results, and replies are mixed. One user said it worked well but left hours of work to review.

  • Usage: one reply said it used a lot of their limit; another joked it cost 40% of their usage.
  • Collisions: one Chief of Staff handed out 12 jobs at once, every Bot tried to use the same computer, and it got stuck.
  • One user runs it every three weeks.
  • The 'nothing that needs my permission' clause carries a lot of weight.
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PromptWritten by our editors from the source
Get all the Bots together. Give each one a single improvement to investigate in its own area, no more than [3] at a time so they don't fight over the shared computer.

Don't send, post, buy, delete or change permissions.

For each improvement, send me a one-paragraph proposal with the expected benefit and how much usage it will take, and wait for my go-ahead before doing it.
x.com

Best for

  • Non-technical owners who want an agent that keeps working while they are away
  • Chief-of-staff style triage across email, Slack and calendars
  • Teams that want one shared Bot inside Slack

Watch-outs

Know before you start

  • Early beta since August 11, 2026; features change weekly
  • Bots on one account share a computer and its logins, so scope access the way you would a contractor's
  • Usage is metered; users report big multi-Bot sweeps eating a large share of a weekly allowance

Pricing and access

No standalone plan: access rides on eligible Grok or Cursor plans. xAI's changelog added Cursor Pro and linked SuperGrok and X Premium+ accounts on August 25, 2026. Check x.ai/bot for current plans.

As of Oct 15, 2026. Prices and plans change; check the official site.

Facts and sources

  • Launched in early beta on August 11, 2026.Dealroom, Aug 11, 2026
  • Bots can claim their own email address; mail they send waits for approval on a draft card.xAI, Oct 11, 2026
  • Before an action it can't undo, such as sending, posting, buying or deleting, a Bot checks for your approval.xAI, Oct 11, 2026
  • QuickBooks Online is available to connect, and Bots can pay with X Money or Stripe Link.xAI, Oct 11, 2026
  • Shopify's connector lets Grok Bot read orders and analytics, check and update inventory, and create or change products. It can't refund or cancel paid orders.RetailBoss, Oct 10, 2026The article shows only its opening until you sign up.
  • Team Bots can be published to a whole team and used inside Slack.xAI, Sep 26, 2026
  • Routines can start from a webhook, with their own URL and key.xAI, Aug 19, 2026
  • You can attach or paste images, PDFs and spreadsheets for a Bot, and ask it to return a spreadsheet with defined columns and formulas.xAI Docs, Oct 3, 2026