What is Grok Bot?

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Grok Bot is xAI's answer to the draft that never gets sent. Each Bot is a named teammate with memory. Together they share a computer in the cloud — browser, files, and a terminal — and they work inside the apps you already open every morning.

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A teammate with a computer

A chat window can suggest the email. Grok Bot is built to open the tool and do the step. Bots sign into the products you use, including sites that never shipped a clean API, and they keep working after you close the laptop. They come back when a step needs your approval.

You talk to a Bot the way you would message a colleague, from the desktop app or from iOS, and the thread is the same on both. There is no workflow canvas to assemble before the first task. You create a Bot, name the job, and hand it something concrete.

At launch it was in beta for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, and SuperGrok Heavy, and for Cursor Pro, Pro+, Ultra, and Cursor Teams. Usage sits on its own meter, separate from your Grok and Cursor allowance. Enterprise access started on its own path.

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One computer, several specialists

All of your Bots share that cloud computer. Files, browser sessions, and app logins live on the account, not inside a single Bot. That is what makes a handoff possible: a sales Bot can leave notes where an ops Bot can pick them up, without you pasting context between chats.

It is also the rule you have to remember. A login placed on that computer is available to every Bot you run. Give each Bot a real role, and keep the roster small until the roles are obvious. xAI's docs suggest starting with one Bot that owns an outcome, and adding a specialist only when the work has a stable second job.

Bots can message each other and sit together in a group chat. You describe the shared outcome; they pass work and pull you in for the judgment calls. The pattern xAI describes internally is a coordinator plus specialists — inbox, expenses, recruiting, bugs — so you stop being the switchboard.

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Show it once

The loop they want is short. The next time you do a job, ask the Bot to follow along. It watches the steps, saves them as a routine, and takes your corrections. The time after that, you hand off the outcome instead of re-explaining the clicks.

Routines can also run on a schedule, or wake up from another app, such as a Slack thread or a GitHub pull request. That is the difference between a prompt you repeat and a teammate who already knows what Tuesday looks like.

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Where it fits, and where it should stop

Grok Bot fits work that lives in tools. Updating a CRM after a call. Processing an invoice that arrived by email. Reproducing a bug in the product and filing the ticket. The value is the last mile, the part most assistants leave as a draft in your chat.

It is a weak place to store the rules of your business. Pricing, permissions, payouts, and the record of what happened belong in software you control. A Bot can operate that software. It should not be the software. Start with narrow access, watch a few real runs, and widen it only after the Bot has been boringly correct.