What is Grok Bot and how do you use it?

What is a Bot?

A Bot is an AI teammate. You give it a name and a job, like “inbox helper” or “website editor”, and it keeps the context of that job. That context compounds over time: the more you work with a Bot, the less you have to explain the next time.

Each Bot has its own chat, memory, scheduled routines, skills and connectors. In practice, that means you can have one Bot for your email and another for your website, and each one remembers its own work without mixing them up.

How do you talk to a Bot?

The same way you’d message a person. You can type, dictate or use voice chat. On the desktop app, dictation is Cmd+D on a Mac and Ctrl+D on Windows and Linux.

Conversations sync across your devices. You can give a Bot a task on your computer and check the answer later on your phone.

What can a Bot actually do?

A Bot does multi-step work across apps and websites. Instead of answering a question and stopping, it can open a website, read what’s there, write a draft, check your calendar and come back with the result.

It reaches your apps through connectors. Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, GitHub and Vercel are some of them, and there are more. For everything else, it can use a browser like you do.

Bots can also work together. You can put more than one Bot in the same thread, as teammates on the same task.

Where does a Bot do its work?

On a cloud computer that stays on. It has a browser, a place to keep files and a terminal (the window where programmers type commands). Because it lives in the cloud, the work continues when your laptop is closed.

That cloud computer is shared by all your Bots. Files, browser sessions and logins are the same for all of them. If you sign in to a website there for one Bot, your other Bots can use that login too. Keep that in mind when you decide which accounts to sign in to.

Bots can also access your own computers, when you set that up.

How do you stay in control?

A Bot comes back to you when it needs your approval. Drafts, like an email reply, are approved before they are sent. Sensitive actions can go through Auto Review before they run.

A good rule for beginners: anything that spends money, opens an account or publishes something in your name waits for you. The Bot prepares, you decide. That’s how this site works, as the case study explains.

What do you need to start?

• A device. There are apps for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows (x64 and Arm64), Linux (x64 and Arm64, as .deb, .rpm or AppImage), iPhone (iOS 18 or later), iPad and Android (9 or later).
• Access. Grok Bot is included with paid individual Cursor plans and Cursor Teams. You can also link an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus or SuperGrok Heavy subscription. Usage resets every week.
• Cloud data storage turned on. Grok Bot requires it. Legacy Privacy Mode is not supported.

We don’t list prices here because they change. Check the official Grok Bot site and the official FAQ.

The getting started guide walks you through the first setup, from installing the app to your first task.

Is Grok Bot the same as vibecoding?

Not exactly. Vibecoding is building an app by describing it to an AI, as in our first app guide. Grok Bot is broader: a Bot can do that kind of work through Claude or cloud agents, but it can also handle your email, your calendar, research and tasks that repeat every week.