Grok Bot: What It Does and Who Can Use It
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, 2026: named AI teammates that share a persistent cloud computer, sign into your tools, and keep working after you close your laptop. It is an early beta, it now comes with every paid Cursor plan, and the single most important thing to understand before you hand it real work is that every Bot you create shares one machine.
What it actually is
A Bot is a persistent, named agent. You message it the way you would text a colleague, hand it a task, and it works in the real tools rather than returning a draft in chat. SpaceXAI’s own description is that Bots “finish jobs end to end, and only come back when something needs your approval.”
Three properties make it different from asking a chatbot for help:
- It has a computer. Each Bot works on a cloud virtual machine with a browser, a filesystem, and a terminal. It can use connectors where they exist and drive the browser where they do not, which covers services with no clean API.
- It persists. Named Bots keep memory, files, browser sessions, and preferences across turns, so context compounds instead of resetting every task.
- Bots coordinate with each other. They can message each other, share context in group chats, and pass ownership, with one Bot acting as a chief of staff over specialists.
Grok Bot is not the Grok you use on grok.com, and it is not Grok Build. Those are three separate products, and the differences matter most around what can start work on its own.
One computer, shared by every Bot
This is the detail worth reading twice, because it runs against the way the product is described. “A team of teammates” implies separation. There is none.
Every Bot on your account uses the same cloud computer. Per the Grok Bot documentation, browser cookies and signed-in sessions are shared, files are visible to every Bot, and command-line credentials are shared. Each Bot gets its own screen on that machine, and SpaceXAI is explicit that the screens “are separate work surfaces, not separate security boundaries.”
The practical consequences:
| What you might assume | What actually happens |
|---|---|
| Each Bot has its own logins | Signing in for one Bot makes the session available to all of them |
| A connector belongs to one Bot | Installed connectors are account-wide |
| A sensitive file is scoped to one Bot | Files on the computer are visible to every Bot |
| Separate Bots limit blast radius | The docs say plainly: do not use separate Bots as a security boundary |
So the recruiting Bot can reach whatever the finance Bot signed into. If you want a real boundary, the unit is the user account, not the Bot.
What can start a Bot on its own
Grok Bot saves a working method as a skill and assigns it to a Bot as a routine. Routines run while your laptop is closed, and they are capped: a Bot can own up to 50, and the app keeps the 20 most recent run records for each one. If you stay away long enough, Grok Bot may ask whether to keep routines running and pause them if nothing answers.
On what wakes a routine up:
A Grok Bot routine is owned by one Bot and fires either on a clock or, where supported, after an event from a Cursor account integration. Slack messages and GitHub notifications are the documented examples. A deal stage changing, an invoice going overdue, or a form arriving is not on that list. All three are on Carly's.
This is a genuine step past assistants that can only work on a timer, and it is worth being precise about rather than dismissive. It is also narrow in a specific direction. Slack and GitHub are well covered. The events most businesses actually run on, a deal stage changing, an invoice aging past due, a form arriving, a file landing in shared storage, are not on the documented list, and the docs hedge the whole capability with “where supported.”
Who can actually get it
Access runs through a Cursor account, which follows from SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor’s parent company Anysphere, announced in June 2026. Grok Bot uses Cursor authentication, inherits your Cursor team’s MCP policy, and is administered from the Cursor dashboard.
Access opened up sharply two weeks after launch. On Aug 26, 2026, SpaceXAI announced that all SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers had Grok Bot and reset weekly usage limits for everyone, and Cursor staff confirmed on Aug 28 that it is live for every paid individual plan, Pro, Pro+ and Ultra, plus self-serve Teams, with no regional or percentage rollout behind it. Enterprise is still being rolled out through Cursor account teams. If you are on a paid plan and still see an upgrade prompt, that is a support ticket rather than a queue you are waiting in.
What replaced the access question is the usage one. Each plan carries a weekly Grok Bot allowance, and the reports from the first fortnight are consistent: heavy users burn it in a day or two, including on Ultra at $200 a month. Past the allowance, usage bills from the shared on-demand pool with no confirmation step, and the dashboard meter does not break spend down by product, so Grok Bot spend is hard to separate from everything else. Cursor staff call the spillover intended behavior and point people at a spend cap in the billing dashboard, which you can set to zero to stop it outright. One user moved to the API instead and spent $27 in ten minutes. Set the cap before the first routine runs, not after.
Platform support at launch is macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows on x64 and Arm64, and iPhone on iOS 18 or later. Linux desktop, Android, and iPad are not supported yet, and Legacy Privacy Mode blocks Grok Bot entirely because the product requires cloud data storage.
Where Carly fits
Carly is built around the part Grok Bot documents least: work that starts because something happened, in the apps a business actually runs on. Carly watches your calendar and inboxes and acts on what arrives, across Gmail and Outlook together, without a Slack or GitHub notification standing in as the trigger.
The other structural difference is separation. Carly holds each connected account as its own addressable identity, so a workflow that touches your client mailbox is not implicitly holding your personal one. That is the opposite of one shared machine with shared cookies.
Carly connects to thousands of apps. Pricing is free Zapier-style workflows, with AI agents from $35/month, and it runs on the web rather than requiring a desktop app on a supported OS.
Putting Carly inside Grok Bot
Separation is an argument for how accounts should be held, not an argument for picking one product. Grok Bot speaks MCP, so Carly can sit inside it as a plugin:
- Find Plugins in Grok Bot. It is on the sidebar, and also under Settings, which opens with Cmd/Ctrl+comma. On the mobile app, tap your avatar at the top left and select Plugins.
- Add Carly’s remote MCP server:
https://carlyassistant.com/mcp/ - Authorize the connection, then confirm Carly shows up under Installed.
A Bot can then hand Carly the calendar and mailbox work, with Carly holding those accounts, instead of spreading them across account-wide plugins and a browser session that every other Bot on the machine can see.
Two honest caveats. Neither SpaceXAI nor Cursor walks through pasting an arbitrary remote MCP URL, and Carly is not in Cursor’s marketplace, so expect the screen to differ from the screenshots. And since Grok Bot inherits your Cursor team’s MCP policy, whether members may add their own MCP servers is a team setting an admin can switch off, which blocks this outright until it is switched back on.
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok Bot the same as Grok?
No. Grok on grok.com is the assistant, with its own Automations feature for scheduled and email-triggered tasks. Grok Bot is a separate desktop and iOS app for persistent AI teammates on a cloud computer. Grok Build is a third product, for coding.
Do Grok Bots have separate logins from each other?
No. All of your Bots share one cloud computer, including its browser sessions, files, and command-line credentials. SpaceXAI advises against treating separate Bots as a security boundary.
Can Grok Bot work while my laptop is closed?
Yes. Work runs on the cloud computer, so closing the app, the laptop, or your phone does not stop a background turn or a routine.
What does Grok Bot cost?
It is bundled rather than sold separately. Since Aug 26, 2026 it comes with every paid Cursor individual plan, Pro, Pro+ and Ultra, plus self-serve Teams and SuperGrok subscriptions. Each carries a weekly usage allowance, and anything past that bills from the shared on-demand pool at model and token cost unless you set a spend cap.
Which platforms does Grok Bot support?
macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows on x64 and Arm64, and iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Linux desktop, Android, and iPad are not supported at launch.
Can I add my own MCP server to Grok Bot?
Grok Bot shows MCP servers as Plugins, added from the Plugins screen on the sidebar or under Settings. Carly’s is https://carlyassistant.com/mcp/. Adding your own depends on your Cursor team policy, since an admin can restrict members to approved servers.
Can Grok Bot use apps that have no API?
Yes. Because each Bot drives a real browser on its computer, it can work in sites and tools that expose no clean API or MCP server. A site can still block automation or demand a CAPTCHA, in which case the Bot hands control back to you.
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