Grok Bot Changed a Lot This Month. Every Feature Explained Simply

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Original video: Grok Bot Changed a Lot This Month. Every Feature Explained Simply · Channel: Hyperautomation Labs · 08:31 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, AI developer tools, AI safety

Summary

The video explains Grokbot’s features as of October, using a newly created bot to demonstrate how bots, memory, templates, cloud computers, app connections, skills, routines, and triggers work. It also covers bots collaborating in group chats, team bots, safety checks, password handling, and weekly usage limits. The presenter recommends starting with a main bot, one routine, and a saved skill for a task you repeat. Other features can wait until they are useful.

Key points

Give each bot one clear, repeated job; the main bot can oversee other bots.
Bots can retain details about you between chats, and templates let you share copies without sharing logins or chat history.
Each bot works on its own screen in a shared cloud computer; it can use a browser, and its files appear in chat and the library tab.
Bots can use connected apps to read and draft, search X, and—where available—use their own email address.
Skills save repeatable steps, routines run jobs on a schedule, and triggers start jobs when something happens.
Group chats let two to six bots work together, while team bots can be shared across a company.
Risky actions may require approval, and passwords, codes, and payments are handed over to the user through a secure form.
Weekly allowances reset each week; the video says there is no free plan, only a seven-day trial credit.
The suggested starting setup is a main bot, one routine, and a skill for an instruction you have repeated.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Bots, memory, and templates	The video introduces bots, the main bot, memory, and shareable templates.
02:10	Where bots work	The presenter explains bots’ cloud computers, browser, file library, terminal, and limited access to your actual computer.
03:14	Apps, skills, routines, and triggers	This section covers app connections, X search, bot email, saved skills, scheduled routines, triggers, and voice features.
05:20	Bots working together	The video demonstrates group chats and explains how team bots are shared within a company.
05:50	Safety, cost, and what to set up	The presenter covers approvals, secure password handling, usage limits, search, platform availability, and the three recommended setup steps.

Quotes

A bot is an AI helper with a name, one job, and its own chat. — 00:34

Every bot gets its own computer in the cloud. — 02:10

A routine runs a job on a schedule. — 04:19

For passwords, codes, and payments, the bot stops and hands control to you. — 06:21

One, make a main bot. Two, give it one routine, like a Friday dinner list or a morning news digest. Three, the second time you repeat an instruction, save it as a skill. — 07:59

Concepts and entities

Grokbot, main bot, memory, template, skill, routine, trigger, team bots, xAI, Elon Musk, Claude Opus 5.5, X, Cursor, Super Grok

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 You open Grokbot. There are bots, skills, routines, triggers, group chats, a main bot, and a weekly meter you don’t understand. So, you make one bot, ask it one question, and never open it again. That’s most people. And it’s not your fault. In the last month alone, this app added eight new features. So, most explainers out there are already out of date. So, here is every Grokbot feature as of October in plain English on my real

00:34 account. I built one new bot this morning and ran every feature on it. Stay to the end for the only three you need to set up this week. Part one, the basics. A bot is an AI helper with a name, one job, and its own chat. I made a new one and told it, “Your name is home helper. Your one job is everyday life admin.” It renamed itself on the spot. Give every repeated job its own bot. One bot that does everything gets confused

01:05 fast. The main bot is the one with the star. It’s the lead. You talk to it, and it keeps an eye on all your other bots. I asked mine to check in with home helper. It came back with everything home helper did today, including the one job that failed. Use it once you have more than three bots. Memory is what the bot keeps about you between chats. I said, “Remember, I am a vegetarian, and I like short bullet points.” It saved both. Then I asked for three easy dinners and never said vegetarian again.

01:38 All three were vegetarian. Tell it once, and you’re done. A template is a copy of a bot you can share with one link. Press share, then create a copy, and it builds one. The copy brings the instructions and skills. It never brings your logins, your computer, or your chat history. And nothing goes public until you press publish. Part two, where it works. This is the big idea. Every bot gets its own computer in the cloud. So, it keeps working when your

02:10 laptop is closed. All your bots share one machine, and each gets its own screen. You can open that screen to watch it work, and take over if it gets stuck. On that computer, the bot has a real web browser. I asked Home Helper to open the curry recipe in its own browser. It clicked around and sent me the screenshot of the ingredients. Use it for any site that doesn’t have an app connection. Every file a bot makes lands in the chat, and now also in a new library tab.

02:41 Here’s the shopping list it made, and the screenshot. Use it the day you ask yourself, which chat was that file in? The bot also has a terminal, the text window programmers type commands into. You never have to touch it. I asked what day Christmas 2026 falls on. It checked in its terminal and said Friday. You’ll just see it working there sometimes. Bots can also work on your actual computer, like renaming a folder of photos. By default, it asks you every single time. One honest note, it only works while the desktop app is

03:14 open on that computer. Mine wasn’t, so the bot said so and touched nothing. Part three, what it can do. Connect apps is one-click sign-in to Gmail, Notion, Slack, Outlook, GitHub, and more. Once connected, your bot can read and draft there. Drafts show up as cards in the chat, so you send or delete them yourself. New this week, your bot can search X by itself with no setup. I asked for the most liked posts about easy weeknight dinners. It found them and even admitted X can’t sort by likes,

03:47 so it was a sample. It will draft posts, but it won’t post or DM anyone for you. Also new, bots can get their own email address. I asked Home Helper to claim one. It asked for my approval first. I clicked allow once and now it’s homehelper@grockbot.com. Use it for sign-ups, receipts, and newsletters. It’s still rolling out, so you may not see it yet. A skill is a saved set of steps the bot follows the same way every time. I told Home Helper to save how it found the dinners and built a shopping list.

04:19 It saved a skill called dinner plan. Type a slash and all your skills show up. Make one the second time you repeat yourself. Teach a task is the easiest way to make a skill. Press plus, then teach a task, and just do the job once while the bot watches for up to 10 minutes. Then, it writes the skill for you. A routine runs a job on a schedule. I said, “Every Friday at 8:00 a.m. send me three new vegetarian dinner ideas.” Done.

04:50 It shows up here with an on and off switch. This is where it stops being a chat and starts being an assistant. A trigger starts a job when something happens instead of at a time. I told Home Helper, “Whenever an email arrives in your new inbox, send me a one-line summary.” It set it up and said it will never reply on its own. You can also just talk to it. These two buttons are voice typing and a live voice chat and you can send it voice memos, too.

05:20 Use it when typing is the reason you’re not using it. Part four, bots working together. A group chat puts two to six bots in one room. I added Home Helper and my copywriter bot and asked for a dinner party menu and an invite. Home Helper picked the menu, then handed it over. Copywriter, it’s yours. Copywriter wrote the invite. Zero extra messages from me. You can tag a bot with the at sign to pull it in. But if every bot has a clear job,

05:50 they hand work to each other on their own, like you just saw. And you can always read what they said to each other. Team bots are shared bots for a whole company. Everyone uses the same bot in the app or in Slack. And each person connects their own email. If you run a small team, this is for you. If it’s just you, skip it. Part five, control, safety, and cost. Before a risky action, a second AI checks it and then it goes ahead, asks you, or blocks it.

06:21 When it asks, you get a card like this. Allow once or deny. One honest warning. Anything it doesn’t flag just runs. So, don’t hit always allow on things you don’t understand. For passwords, codes, and payments, the bot stops and hands control to you. I asked Home Helper how to give it a password. Its answer, never paste it in the chat. It shows you a secure form, and the password goes straight into the site without the AI seeing it. Every plan has a weekly allowance that resets every week.

06:53 When it runs out, the bot stops. Or you pay as you go if you turn that on. For scale, everything you saw in this video, about 15 jobs, still shows 1% of my week. That’s on the $100 plan. So, a cheaper plan fills up faster. There’s no model picker. Grok bot chooses the AI behind each job for you. On October 7th, Elon Musk posted that it will use the best model for each task, including Claude Opus 5.5. xAI hasn’t said when that reaches every

07:26 account, or which jobs go where. Press command K or control K on Windows to search every bot message, file, and routine at once. I typed dinner, and my Friday routine came straight up. You’ll need it the day you have 20 bots. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, and Android. There’s no free plan, just a 7-day trial credit. The cheapest way in is Cursor’s $20 plan or Super Grok at about 30. Super Grok light doesn’t include it, so check before you pay. If that felt like a lot, here’s all you

07:59 do this week. One, make a main bot. Two, give it one routine, like a Friday dinner list or a morning news digest. Three, the second time you repeat an instruction, save it as a skill. Everything else can wait until you need it. Real talk, 90% of you watching haven’t subscribed. On Facebook, subscribe is the supporter button. That is what keeps the lights on here. On YouTube, it’s free, and it tells the algorithm to send you more.

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