Grok MCP: Bring Your Own MCP Server to Grok
Grok takes custom MCP servers at grok.com/connectors. The setup, why a local server needs tunneling, and the admin step that blocks business accounts.
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Grok takes custom MCP servers at grok.com/connectors. The setup, why a local server needs tunneling, and the admin step that blocks business accounts.
What Grok actually caps: consumer chat windows xAI leaves unpublished, the features gated behind SuperGrok, and the API rate limits it publishes in full.
Grok Bot's Gmail and Outlook plugins each sign in one account, and every login is shared across your Bots. Connect each mailbox to Carly to keep them apart.
Grok's mail connectors sign in as one Google identity and one Microsoft mailbox. Connect every account to Carly, add Carly once, and name the inbox you mean.
Grok's Google Drive connector is free, self-serve, and documented for reads and writes. A second Google account is undocumented. Setup and the way round it.
Grok's Notion connector is free, native OAuth and self-serve. One connection covers one workspace, and that rule is written down by Notion, not by xAI.
Grok's OneDrive connector is Business and Enterprise only, admin-provisioned against one Azure AD tenant, and holds one identity. What works instead.
xAI documents no second Microsoft account for Grok, and someone else's calendar is out of reach. The connector is free. What works instead.
Grok searches across SharePoint sites automatically, but the ceiling is what an admin indexed, not what you can open. Two tenants have nowhere to go.
Grok at grok.com has no Slack connector, built in or in the catalog. Custom MCP is the only route and Slack blocks it. What reaches Slack instead.
Grok's Teams connector is free and self-serve, and three of its permissions need an Entra admin. A second tenant is undocumented. What works instead.
xAI documents no way to add a second Google account to Grok, though the connector itself is free and self-serve. How to reach every calendar.
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot gives AI teammates one shared cloud computer. What it can do, which plans unlock it, and the shared-login catch to plan around.
Grok Bot's Gmail plugin takes more than one account by design, but users cannot get it authorized. Put every Gmail in Carly and work across all of them.
Carly holds every Outlook mailbox you own and works across all of them in one Grok Bot chat. Grok Bot's own plugin signs in a single account.
Grok's Outlook connector reaches only the signed-in user's mailbox. Add every Microsoft account to Carly and reach them all from one conversation.
Grok signs in to one Google account per connector. Add every inbox to Carly, connect Carly to Grok once, and ask across all of them in one conversation.
What you get from the xAI API in 2026: Grok 4.5 at 500k context, high limits before you spend a dollar, first-party X search, and one billing trap.
Grok can now run jobs on a schedule or when an email arrives. How Automations work, what the triggers can match on, what's free, and the one event it watches.
Every app Grok connects to: the seven built-in connectors, the OAuth catalog, and custom MCP, with the permissions each one asks for.
xAI shipped Grok for Excel on July 20, 2026 as a free Microsoft 365 add-in. What it does in a workbook, how it pulls from your connectors, and its limits.
Grok runs inside Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, plus connectors for Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. What's free, what's paid, and how it beats Copilot.
xAI shipped Grok for Outlook on July 21, 2026. What the add-in does inside your inbox, how it differs from the Outlook connector, and what it costs.
Grok shipped free Word and PowerPoint add-ins in June 2026. What each one does, how they pull from your connectors, and where the assistance stops.
Grok is xAI's conversational chatbot with live X access; Perplexity is a cited answer engine. Here's which to pick in 2026.
Grok is built for real-time, X-native answers with a looser persona; Claude is built for careful writing, coding, and reasoning. Here's how to pick in 2026.
xAI's Grok vs OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2026: real-time X data and an unfiltered voice against the broadest feature set and ecosystem. Which fits your work.
Grok vs Gemini in 2026: real-time X data and personality versus deep Google Workspace integration and a huge context window. Which one fits your work.
OpenAI phases out GPT-5 and GPT-4o ahead of GPT-5.2 dominance, Microsoft retreats from aggressive Windows 11 AI integration, and a WashPo investigation reveals how Grok became a porn generator.
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over deepfakes, AI memory sells out through 2026 with 50%+ price surges, and Anthropic's enterprise dominance gets the spotlight.
Elon Musk's Grok faces international investigations over nonconsensual deepfakes, humanoid robots dominate CES 2026 with 40 exhibitors, and MiniMax doubles on Hong Kong debut as Chinese AI tiger goes public.