If you’re wondering how to use Grok Bot, start here. Grok Bot is more than a chat window. Each bot is an assistant with its own instructions, memory and a cloud computer it can use. Five ideas cover almost everything you’ll do in this course.
Steps
Bots
A bot is one assistant with a name, a job and its own memory. You can create many bots and chat with each one separately. Your primary bot is the one marked with a star.
Screenshot comingThe sidebar with several bots, the primary bot marked with a star
Skills
A skill is a saved set of instructions for how to do a task: when to use it, what it needs, the steps, how to check the result, what to return and what needs approval. Your private skills are one library that all your bots can use.
Screenshot comingA saved skill opened in the app
Routines
A routine tells one bot when to run a job by itself: on a schedule (every weekday at 8 AM) or after an event, like a webhook or a message. Routines can run while your laptop is closed.
Screenshot comingA bot’s details pane with its Routines listed
Connectors (apps and plugins)
Connectors let a bot use your apps, like Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive or Notion. You add them from Connect apps in the sidebar and sign in yourself. Connect only what a bot needs for its job.
Screenshot comingThe Connect apps screen
The bot’s computer
Each bot can use a cloud computer with a browser, files and a terminal. That’s how it works on websites without a connector. You can watch it, or take control when a sign-in needs you.
Screenshot comingThe bot computer view in Watching mode
Approvals hold it together
Before anything that can’t be undone, like sending, posting, buying or deleting, Grok Bot checks for your approval (Auto-review and approval cards). In this course, “approve first” is the default for every bot.
Copy-paste prompt
Paste this to your bot. Replace anything in [brackets].
Copy-paste prompt
Explain my setup using five building blocks: bots, skills, routines, connectors and your computer. For each one, tell me what I have today in one line, and one thing I should add first. Keep it to ten lines.
Check it worked
You can name the five building blocks without looking.
Your bot told you one thing to add for each.
Common mistakes
Connecting every app to every bot “just in case”. More access means more risk and more noise.
Treating a long chat as memory. Important rules belong in a skill or saved memory, not buried in chat history.