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- Tip · Oct. 31Before you wire up a Bot webhook, ring the bell once by hand
One harmless test call catches the setup mistakes that make webhook routines go quiet.
- Tip · Oct. 31Have Grok Bot keep an hourly attention list, a tip from x.ai's PM guide
A to-do list goes stale by lunch. An official x.ai guide shows how to have your Bot build an hourly list from what you're actually working on.
- Tip · Oct. 28SpaceXSI's sales team splits deal work across three Shared Bots
Account Intel, Quote and Deal Bots each handle one part of the deal cycle, act with each rep's permissions and stop for human review on judgment calls, according to a SpaceXSI write-up.
- Tip · Oct. 27Free download: Cop, a Bot that audits your routines each weekday morning
Cop checks your Bots' routines on weekday mornings, flags heavy or low-value ones and proposes cuts. It stays quiet when nothing needs attention.
- Tip · Oct. 23Let Grok Bot use your phone's apps, one Allow at a time
Grok Bot can now work with Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and other apps on your phone. Each app gets its own Allow, so you can say yes to Reminders and no to Messages. Here's a careful way to start.
- Tip · Oct. 21SpaceXSI says one Bot cleared 204 support tickets in about 10 minutes
SpaceXSI's support team runs two incident Bots. IncidentWatch spots ticket spikes, and IncidentSweep answers the backlog in one batch a person approves. The pattern works for anyone with a busy inbox.
- Tip · Oct. 20Put your Bot on the iPhone Action Button: one press starts a voice chat
The official @bot account says Grok Bot 1.16 lets an iPhone 15 Pro or later start a Bot voice chat from the Action Button. Here are the four steps @bot posted and what the docs don't cover yet.
- Tip · Oct. 18Musk boosts user's Bot that says it cut an Xfinity bill $43 a month
Mike P posted a Bot message reporting a cheaper Xfinity plan after the change was approved. Elon Musk quote-posted: "Grok @Bot can pay for itself."
- Tip · Oct. 18Musk says screenshot a credit card; here's what the docs offer instead
Elon Musk told users a card photo is the easiest way to let Grok Bot pay. The official changelog and approvals docs describe Secure Forms, Link Allow/Deny cards, and X Money or Stripe Link.
- Tip · Oct. 16Cursor's BDK lets local coding agents ask your Grok Bots
Cursor's Bot Development Kit has an official extension, cursor-grokbot-agents, that lets a local coding agent ask named Grok Bots on your Cursor account and bring the answer back into the current chat.
- Tip · Oct. 13Memory Transfer, a community Bot for moving your AI memory
Brian Roemmele's Memory Transfer Bot imports what ChatGPT or Claude learned about you, one reviewed line at a time. Elon Musk quote-posted it overnight. It's community-built, not a SpaceXAI release.
- Tip · Oct. 12Official docs: tag @bot on X to hand a post to your Grok Bot
The official Tag @bot on X docs page shows how to start Bot work from a post or reply. @bot confirms on X; the work and results stay in the Grok Bot app.
- Tip · Oct. 6Grok Bot can now skip the draft and send messages directly
A new button on email and Slack draft cards lets a bot send messages without asking first. The same late-September releases add Team Bot managers, voice chat for teammates, and updates that install themselves.
- Tip · Oct. 2Grok Bot's new Primary Bot offers to do work before you ask
SpaceXAI began rolling out Primary Bot on Thursday. It looks for work it can take on, offers to do it, and routes jobs to your other Bots. Suggestions are free; the company has not said whether accepted work is.
- Tip@benln five-day Grok Bot ship list
@benln (Sep 7) five-day ship list: faster cold start, token efficiency, iPad, Android, marketplace, multi-account, Enterprise. Author-reported %.
- TipSix Grok Bot communities on X (apply via Typeform)
@benln (Sep 8): six curated Grok Bot communities on X (GTM, Marketing, Recruiting, Engineering, Product, Design). Limited spots. Typeform apply.
- TipBuild and sell Grok Bots (Nate Herk’s free course)
Free YouTube long build after first hour / roster hacks / concepts. Skool provenance only.
- TipClaire Vo: @bot ordered IKEA + booked Taskrabbit
@clairevo (Sep 8): her @bot ordered IKEA and booked Taskrabbit for delivery/assembly. Practitioner demo, not staff.
- TipSeven Grok Bot agents Claire Vo runs every day
Steal sheet: Chief, TradBot, LGTM, Lockdown, Holly Helpdesk, shopping cluster: OpenClaw to Grok Bot.
- TipDesigning Grok Bot for persistent agents (official essay + origin talk)
Official Designing Grok Bot essay: five primitives for persistent agents. Careful Roman Ugarte credit via Lenny framing. Net-new companion to designer-roster playbook.
- TipDesigning Grok Bot with Grok Bot: Experiments, Motion God, Figma Bro, Devbot
Official designer playbook: always-on design agents that explore more ideas, work against real production assets, and keep human judgment in the loop.
- TipDon't burn Bot tokens on coding - hand off to Cursor cloud agents
Stop burning Bot weekly usage on coding: hand multi-file work to Cursor Cloud Agents, then check Settings > Usage & Billing.
- TipTwo farm paths: Cloud Agents vs Desk Hermes / local LLMs
When Grok Bot needs heavy coding, farm the work off the Grok Bot meter. Two common paths:
- TipUsing Grok Bot for Figma photomosaics (@mattyp)
Matt Palmer (@mattyp) Figma photomosaic workflow: three-panel mosaic via Bot + Figma. Check the share link before you rely on it. Companion to Figma Bro.
- TipA Grok Bot that prints math worksheets at 6 a.m.
Elon RT (Sep 14) of Teslaconomics: school mornings with Grok Bot - fresh math worksheets already printed by 6am. Practitioner demo, not staff. The post is cut off on X; open it for the full text.
- TipHaggle Bot: permission lines and the procurement writeup
On 2026-09-04, SpaceXAI published how they ran Haggle Bot on procurement: vendor spend, contracts, and usage data, with claimed direct savings above $100,000 (c
- TipIn-chat form fill and password manager support
@bot (Sep 8): fill forms and logins without leaving chat; password manager support. Still never paste secrets into ordinary chat; docs still emphasize takeover for passwords/2FA.
- TipNine roster hacks: Grill Me, chief of staff, memory, and Composio
Once the first bots work, the next jump is roster discipline: how you teach context, who you talk to, what is shared memory, and how you reach tools the built-i
- TipRepo ops desk with Grok Bot
Architecture for a repo ops desk: six named Grok Bots as the cockpit, a long-context fix-engine underneath, draft PRs only, human merge.
- TipSix-bot mobile game studio (official guide)
Official Grok Bot field guide: six named bots running a live mobile game studio (Rank'em), with overnight handoffs, teach-a-task for ad UIs when APIs stall, and