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Short answers about Grok Bot: what it is, how it differs from Grok chat, install, cost, skills, and routines. Independent Botski guides, not official xAI documentation.
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What is a Grok Bot?
A Grok Bot is a named AI teammate you keep around. It has a job, its own conversation, and context that builds up over time. It works on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, files, and a terminal, so tasks can finish in real tools instead of only as chat drafts. You message it with the task, the context, and the access it needs. It comes back when something needs your approval. This is an independent Botski guide, not official xAI documentation.
How is Grok Bot different from Grok chat?
Grok chat is xAI’s assistant for a conversation: questions, writing, images, video, voice, and files, on grok.com and in the Grok apps. A Grok Bot is a teammate with a standing job on a persistent cloud computer. Chat is for the moment. A Bot can keep working after you close the laptop, keep role-specific context, use websites and connectors, and coordinate with other Bots. You do not need a named Bot for a one-off question. Use a Bot when the job will repeat, needs tools, or should run while you are away.
How do I give a bot a clear first job?
Give one Bot one primary job. Official get-started says a strong first request names five things: the outcome, the sources, the constraints, the deliverable, and the point where it should stop for you. A five-minute start that needs no website login is to attach a document and ask for five bullets, a separate list of every date, decision, and open question, a citation for each item, and a rule not to change the source file. Put standing rules in the Bot description, such as never sending without approval. Put this task in the message. Plan your bot on bot.ski can write that prompt. It does not start a Grok Bot or install anything.
Install, cost, and docs
How do I get or install a Grok Bot?
Install the official Grok Bot app, then sign in. Desktop builds are for macOS, Windows, and Linux. There is also a companion app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Official get-started says to open the Grok Bot downloads page and choose the download for your computer. Sign-in uses a Cursor account. If your access comes from an individual SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription, link that account when the app asks. bot.ski does not host an installer, and this page does not name a download file. Get Botski on this site stays empty until a real installer exists.
How do I set up Grok Bot on Windows?
Official get-started says Windows is supported on x64 and Arm64. Choose that download from the Grok Bot downloads page, run the installer, and open Grok Bot from the Start menu. To see which build you need, open Settings, then System, then About, and read System type. Then sign in with your Cursor account and link SuperGrok or X Premium+ only if that is your access. bot.ski does not ship a Windows installer and does not list a file name.
Which platforms can run Grok Bot?
Official FAQ lists macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows on x64 and Arm64, and Linux on x64 and Arm64 as a deb package, an rpm package, or an AppImage. Mobile is iPhone on iOS 18 or later, iPad on iPadOS 18 or later, and Android 9 or later. The same Bots and conversations sync across signed-in devices. The computers the Bots work on run in Cursor’s cloud, not as a local virtual machine you install yourself.
How much does Grok Bot cost?
Botski does not publish a dollar price for Grok Bot. The official plans page, checked on 21 September 2026, says access is included with Cursor Pro, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and a self-serve Cursor Teams seat. You can also link an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, or X Premium+ account. SuperGrok Lite does not include Grok Bot. SuperGrok Team and SuperGrok Enterprise cannot be linked for it. There is a free trial described as a usage credit with a 7-day window, not a dollar amount. Included usage resets weekly. Extra use can continue as on-demand usage billed through Cursor when that is turned on. Reading this FAQ costs nothing.
Who makes or owns Grok Bot?
Botski does not make or own Grok Bot. Official Grok docs call Grok xAI’s assistant. Grok Bot’s handbook is published as SpaceXAI Docs on docs.x.ai, and the docs index describes that site as SpaceXAI (xAI) documentation. The same Grok Bot docs say you sign in with a Cursor account and that the Bots’ computer runs in Cursor’s cloud. The plans page says SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscriptions are billed by xAI or X, not by Cursor. Shared templates are created by other people, not by SpaceXAI. The overview page we checked does not print a single registered-owner line. Confirm the current wording on the official docs and the plans page.
Where are the official docs?
The official Grok Bot handbook is the SpaceXAI docs at docs.x.ai, in the Grok Bot section: overview, get started, FAQ, create and manage Bots, skills and routines, the computer and apps, and approvals. Grok chat has its own section, Welcome to Grok. Editorial guides are on the Grok Bot guides page. Plans and billing are on the Cursor help page for Grok Bot plans. The downloads page named by get-started is the Grok Bot page on x.ai. Those links are in Official docs below this answer. If two official pages disagree, trust the page that owns that topic and check the date. Botski is not a substitute for them.
Skills, routines, and templates
What are skills and routines?
A skill is a reusable 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 requires approval. A routine assigns a workflow to one Bot and tells it when to run, on a schedule or, where supported, after an event. Official docs say to make a one-time task reliable, save it as a skill, and only then automate it. Private skills are one library shared by your Bots. On desktop, type / to reference a skill and @ for a Bot, group, routine, or connector. Marketplace in the sidebar is where the docs say you install connectors and packaged skills.
What is Share as Template, and what is Marketplace?
Share as template is how someone else starts from your Bot. Official docs say to open the Share menu, choose Create template, then copy a public link or a team-only link. Enterprise accounts default to team-only. The recipient previews the template on x.ai and needs the Grok Bot app to add a copy. They get the shared configuration: identity, description, skills, and routines. They do not get your computer, logins, or conversation history. Strip secrets before you share. Adding someone else’s bot accepts third-party bot terms. Marketplace is a different place: the sidebar, for connectors and packaged skills. bot.ski does not invent template ids, and it is not that marketplace.
Does Grok Bot keep working when my laptop is closed?
Yes. Official docs say the work runs on the cloud computer. Closing the app, your laptop, or your phone does not stop a background turn or a routine. You still review the result and any approval when you are back. The computer is shared by every Bot on your account, so a routine that keeps running is using that shared machine, not a private one.
What happens if I delete or hide a Bot?
Deleting a Bot removes its active profile, conversation, and routines from Grok Bot. Because Bots share a computer, files and sign-ins on that computer may remain. Official FAQ says backend retention follows the applicable Cursor terms. If you might need the work later, hide the Bot instead of deleting it. Hiding removes it from the main sidebar and does not pause the Bot or its routines. Open Hidden Bots to unhide it. Deleting a routine by itself is immediate and has no undo.
Approvals and the shared computer
What should a bot never do?
Write the anti-jobs in the Bot description and in each skill: do not send, publish, delete, purchase, or change a production system without your approval. Official docs say sensitive actions can stop for approval, and that you should add narrow ask-first rules for those actions. Passwords, two-factor codes, and CAPTCHA checks are yours. Use the computer takeover. Do not paste secrets into the chat. If a site blocks automation, the Bot should hand you the step instead of working around it. Two Bots are not two vaults. They share one computer.
Do my Bots share one computer?
Yes. Official docs say every Bot on your account uses one persistent cloud computer. They share its files, browser sessions, and app logins, which is why a handoff can continue without a second setup. The computer belongs to your account, not to one Bot. Between different users, isolation is strict. Do not treat two Bots as two security vaults. Each Bot gets its own screen, and one Bot runs one computer-use task on its screen at a time.
What does a Grok Bot have to ask me first?
It depends on the tool, the risk, and your Auto-review rules when those are turned on. Official FAQ says sensitive or consequential actions can stop for approval. Put standing boundaries in each Bot’s description, and add narrow ask-first rules for sending, publishing, deleting, purchasing, or changing production systems. Passwords, two-factor codes, CAPTCHA checks, and similar human-only steps use a computer takeover. You type those yourself. Do not paste them into chat. A test of a routine is still real work, so keep writes behind that same approval line.
Botski
Can bots post on bot.ski or on social feeds?
No. A Grok Bot does not post onto bot.ski. Explore bots is an empty hall until real reviewed listings exist. Connecting an account on bot.ski does not publish a creation for you. The activity feed is this site’s own feed, not a place a Grok Bot publishes into. Inside the Grok Bot app, Bots can message you and other Bots. They can act in a connected tool only inside the approval rules you set. That is not a bot.ski account, and it is not permission to post in public without you.
Is bot.ski official xAI?
No. Botski is an independent project. These pages are not official xAI documentation, and Botski is not endorsed by X, xAI, or Grok. The FAQ is prepared text. It is not a live chat model, and it cannot install a Grok Bot, start one, or speak for xAI. When a product fact matters, use the official docs named after the answer.