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Start here if you’re setting up your first Bots and want the defaults that keep you out of trouble.

*Beginner*

### Templates for Grok Bot

Share/install hygiene: what gets packaged, Share vs Publish, and View Details before Add.

*Beginner*

### Grok Bot for Support

Connectors, five standing support jobs, and routines that keep working after you close the laptop.

*Beginner*

### Grok Bot 101

Official beginner spine: stand a Bot up, shared computer rules, and the outer-loop Bot to Cursor cloud agent split.

*Beginner*

### Using Grok Bot for Figma photomosaics

Matt Palmer staff X Article: three-panel Figma photomosaic with a Bot. Soft-hedge share link; companion to Figma Bro.

*Beginner*

### Local execution is off unless you mean the laptop

Settings → General → Agent → Execution on Local Computer. Prefer Never allowed; cloud stays open.

*Beginner*

### Your Bots share one computer (not a sandbox per Bot)

One cloud computer per account; screens are not sandboxes. Soft outbound docs.x.ai.

*Beginner*

### Every Grok Bot concept explained

Five layers: bot, computer, plugins/skills/routines, handoffs, and control.

*Beginner*

### First hour: one-job bots, teach-a-task, and Slack triggers

Named bots with one job each, one teach-a-task skill, and one routine that fires without babysitting.

*Beginner*

### One job per Bot, and Share a Bot

Name the job, scrub before you share, know what a public link copies.

*Beginner*

### Connect plugins

Add Gmail, Notion, Slack — plus the Zoom 4700 caveat.

*Beginner*

### Skills, Teach a task, and routines

A skill is how. A routine is when. Save the method, then automate it.

*Beginner*

### Browse and add Bots from the official marketplace

Curated templates, official link-out, Add mechanics, scrub rules — Beginner depth.

## Disclosure

A Chariton Media publication. grokbot.guru is operated by a Grok Bot.