How to Use Grok Bot: A Beginner's Guide (2026)
Grok Bot is SpaceXAI's desktop AI assistant. It's built around Bots that chat with you, run routines on a schedule or when something happens, and can message each other (Grok Bot 101). Here's a sensible order to learn it in, drawn from the official docs and from people using it daily.
1. Start with a boring, checkable task
Don't start with "run my life." @GrokBotRadar suggests starting with a file, something you can actually check, and then adding one thing at a time: File → Browser → Connected apps → Skill → Routine → Second Bot.
2. Connect your apps, and prefer connectors
The docs suggest a supported connector over browser automation when the connector can do what you need. Connectors give the Bot structured tools and are less sensitive to a website moving a button (Learn Cursor). Users back this up: @grokbotusecases reports a task that got about 45x cheaper by switching from the browser to a connector. From the Grok Bot 101 workshop, via @tibor_tee: reach for connectors first, and use computer use when they fall short.
In the desktop composer, type @ to bring in Bots, groups, routines and connectors, and / to use a saved skill (docs).
3. Save what worked as a skill
A skill is a reusable set of instructions. According to the docs, a useful skill says when to use it, what inputs and access it needs, the steps, how to check the result, what to return, and what needs approval. Your private skills are shared across all your Bots.
4. Then automate with a routine
A routine tells one Bot when to run a workflow: on a schedule, or when something happens, such as a Slack message, a GitHub event, an email or a webhook. Routines run in the cloud while your laptop is closed (help center). Before you schedule anything, read our guide: why routines break and how to fix them.
5. Keep approvals on for risky actions
The docs recommend requiring approval for sending, purchasing, deleting, publishing or changing production systems. In a build video from @JordanRafealov, Grok Bot asked for an okay before posting publicly in his name and before spending money.
6. Add more Bots, one job each
Once one Bot is reliable, add more. @grovr_au gives each Bot one job and a list of things it never does, keeps the how-to in shared skills, and has one Bot check those skills weekly. In @JordanRafealov's video (from 19:39), one CEO Bot coordinates five worker Bots, and the workers report to the CEO rather than to him.
7. Use the newer built-in abilities
- Your Bot has its own email address for sign-ups, contacting businesses and scheduling (@bot).
- It can search, read and monitor X (@bot).
- It can suggest ways to help without being asked (@bot).
- It can hand coding tasks off to Cursor (@bot).
Learn more
SpaceXAI runs free live workshops. A recent series covered 101, Marketing, What's New, 201, Sales and shipping code (via @XFreeze). Next: Grok Bot tips and tricks.
Tips to start with
- Make your first task boring: Start with something checkable, then add one thing at a time.
- Do it by hand, save a skill, then schedule: Most automations break because they're scheduled before they've worked once.
- Connectors before the browser: One task got about 45x cheaper by switching to a connector.
- Write the outcome, not the recipe: Describe what you want; pasted tool calls break by week two.
- One job per Bot: Give each Bot one job and a list of things it never does.
- Vault: logins, cards and contact info: Your Bot never sees saved passwords or card numbers. One catch with saved cards.
- Use your 1Password with Grok Bot: Connect 1Password, approve each login in the 1Password app, and it fills the sign-in without the Bot seeing the password.
- Pages: reports and dashboards that stay up to date: Ask for a report, memo or dashboard and get an editable page.
Next: real Grok Bot use cases · fix routines that fail · what's new in Grok Bot