Why Grok Bot Is Taking Over (10 Hacks)

0:00Grokbot is gaining so much momentum lately. A bunch of people on X are saying that they're switching over, that they've canceled their plans, and Elon has even said that it's one of the fastest-growing products that he has ever seen in his life. And I can say from my own usage that I've also switched over most of it now from other

0:17apps like Cloud Code or the ChatGPT app. So, in this video, I want to walk you through all of the new updates that make Grokbot even better, my top Grokbot hacks, and then also some of the real use cases and what I actually use it for. Let's dive in. All right, before we go into the hacks and the use cases, I want to just cover briefly the principles that I like to use when using Grokbot. So, the first one here is, and you probably already know this if you've seen some of my other Grokbot videos, I

0:43want to have one bot for every function. And this, of course, is also how Grokbot was designed. So, basically, treat a bot like having a new employee. You want to have one bot per job, and the structure that I like to go with is essentially to have a chief of staff, and under that chief of staff, you can have your other bots. And so, this is what it looks like for me. I have my chief of staff here. I have a couple of other bots, like these are my content bots, and then all kinds of other bots for different jobs. All right, the second principle is around

1:12the question of how much autonomy do I give my bots. So, I like to approach this basically step by step. For example, if I want my bot to run my entire SEO strategy, I won't go and just say, "Run my SEO strategy." It's probably not enough information and not enough guidance. All right, now, but what I will do is I will first create a plan, and then I will basically tell my bot, "Okay, now you can go ahead and go through this plan, and you should get approval from me at certain stages." So, this is kind of stage two, get approval and let me confirm things before you

1:47actually take action. And then, once I've done this for maybe 1 or 2 weeks, and I've gained more trust in my bot doing the right thing, then I will shift to more autonomy, and then I will maybe tell it, "Okay, now you can pretty much handle these things yourself from now on and you don't need to get my approval anymore." So, I think you need to find the right balance between being ambitious with trying things out like saying, "Hey, just go and do my SEO strategy." At the same time, you need to

2:13give your bot enough guidance as well. Okay, the third principle is not to rely too much on the built-in memory feature because I think the built-in memory feature is not that good yet and if you rely only on that, you'll probably have a bad experience at some point. What I've found to work quite well is to do something like this. You want to build a kind of back-end or a kind of source of truth that your bot can rely on besides its built-in memory. So, let me give you an example here. I have this bot here which is helping me manage my partnerships, which means he's

2:45essentially acting like an account manager reading my emails for brand requests that are coming in and then helping me track them and reply to these brands to manage my sponsor- ships. Now, I could run it in a way that it just relies completely on its built-in memory, which means I'm having these chats and then I just always tell my partnership bot to remember everything about every deal. But, this will not work well. It will start forgetting things and then I will need to start repeating myself and this will cause frustration. So, what I've done instead is I've created this sponsorship deals Notion page where I basically had my

3:19Grok Bot create this and this is acting as the source of truth of all of the sponsorships and in which state they are. And as a human, you would do that as well. You need some place to keep track of these things. And I'm just giving my Grok Bot access to this and using this as a source of truth makes the experience much better and makes it not rely on its built-in memory too much. And real quick, guys, if you want to learn more about Grok Bot, I just put together this Grok Bot playbook for you guys. You can download completely for free. I'll put a link in the description

3:47below and it just includes like all of the things that you need to get Grok Bot set up and all of the tips and tricks that I have uh discovered and written down, you'll find all of them in this playbook, including my routines and my skills and my use cases. It is 16 pages long, so if you want that, go and grab it below. Back to the video. Okay, let's jump into the hacks and some of the use cases. So, the first one here, talking about memory, let's talk about memory import because this really should be the first thing that you want to be doing if

4:17you start off with Grokboat. You want to somehow import your memory from the other AI applications that you're using. And so, one way to do that, if you're a ChatGPT user, you can go in here into settings and then you should be able to go to personalization and then you have your memory here. Go to data controls and then you have this export data here and you can export your data, which includes the memory. Now, that's one way to do it and even easier way to do it is just to go into ChatGPT and say, "Hey, I want you to export everything that uh you have about me,

4:51like all of the memory that you have, put it into one file." So, then you have your file, you just download it and then you go into your Grokboat, drag it in and just say, "Import this memory." That's it. I won't do it now cuz I've already done that, but that's how easy it is. You can do the same thing obviously for Claude. Now, if you already, like I did, have my memory system stored in local folders here, like I still have my AI operating system, which is called Claudia, and I have most of my stuff stored in here, it's even easier because then you can

5:19just say, "Hey, go and look at my local Claudia folder. I have all of my memory stored in there. A lot of it is in the memory.md file or in the memory folder and I want you to import that memory over here into Grokboat." And that's it. It's able to go look at my local folder, so a lot of people don't know that. Like Grokboat has access to your local folders, so you can see here in settings, if you go to computer, you can actually allow it to execute things on your computer and so it can go and access that folder, grab all of it the

5:49stuff that it needs, and then import it into its own system. And I've actually done the same thing with skills. So, I can also go ahead and say, "Hey, I have all of my skills saved in my Claudia folder. I want you to import all of those skills into Grok Bot." And so, you

6:06can do that. But, if you have them all saved tied to your actual like Claude or ChatGPT account, then you'll probably have to export them first. So, go into ChatGPT or Claude and say, "Get all my skills and like put it into a file," just like we did for the memory. And then, you can import it from that file. So, yeah, that's how easy it is, and that's the first step I would do if you haven't used Grok Bot before, or also if you just haven't done this memory import

6:31step yet. Okay, next hack here. So, I really recommend using some app like 1Password to manage your passwords and combine that with the built-in vault. So, let me show you what I mean. I use 1Password, which is my password manager. So, this is the 1Password app. What I've done is I've connected 1Password here. And when you do this connection, it will essentially guide you to setting up a new vault. And this vault is going to be called shared with Grok Bot. And now, from my main vault, which is mostly personal, I have all of

7:06my old passwords saved in there, right? And then, I can just go into any password like I just pick the random example here that's not very sensitive. Can go into here and just hit duplicate, and then share it with my Grok Bot. And so, I can be very precise about which passwords I actually share with my Grok Bot. And once I've shared it with my Grok Bot, I can just go into my Grok Bot and say, "I've shared this password with you on 1Password. You can go ahead and grab it." What this does is Grok Bot will actually have access to the passwords, but it can't actually read

7:35them. Like it does it through a secure form. Now, Grok Bot does have this feature kind of built in as well, and it's called vault. It has this feature where it will sometimes ask you to fill in some like password basically. It's called like a submit a form, and then you can put in your password here. And I've done it for a couple of things. So, one is credit cards. It's unable to actually get the credit card from one password and use it. And so, you need to put your credit card into this built-in vault feature for it to work. But, yeah, right now I mostly use one password and

8:07sometimes also this built-in vault feature. But, using one password just makes it so much easier to handle your secrets and be able to log into the various accounts. All right, next up, let's talk about the built-in browser. I think it's one of the most important things. At the same time, I'll be honest, I think the built-in browser of Rockbot is still one of its weak spots,

8:27and the Codex browser is still better. Right now, you'll find the built-in browser here on the side, of course, and obviously you can like click take control and then you click around in it. But, most of the time you just want your agent to use it, right? Okay, so a couple of tips. The first one is, again, use one password, as I said before, because you're going to want to have your bot be able to log into your accounts. And then, if an account is not logged into this new browser, you can just say, you know, go to my one password and get the login, and then log

8:55in yourself. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is decide for yourself if it's worth the risk for you to do this. I've done this just for convenience, but I've basically said something like, "I want you to go to my real Chrome browser, the one that I'm using locally on this machine, and I want you to export all of the cookies, put that into a file, and then I want to

9:16import that into this built-in browser." And basically hit that off, it will go ahead and get all of the cookies. They contain the saved secrets essentially of all of your logins, and then it will just import it into this browser here, and then you will be logged into all of your services like immediately, and your bot can have access to it. Now, of course, if you don't want your bot to have access to everything, then be careful with it, but like in my eyes, there's more to win than there's to lose, so. All right, next up is connecting X, and this I think is really one of the biggest benefits of using

9:48Grok bot. If you're an X user and get a lot of your information from X, then Grok bot is just the best for this now, because what they've added recently is a direct connection to X, and so your Grok bot can just go and search X without you having to connect the API. So, you

10:05literally don't need to do anything. It's just already connected in the back end, and you can do a bunch of research just by asking your Grok bot. For example, here I said, "Find the tweets about the latest Grok bot updates," and it just went ahead and searched X and found like all of these tweets and gave me the links to these tweets. So, all of these tweets are public tweets, so it's able to kind of use the search and look for public tweets and do these kinds of things completely for free for you. If you wanted to do a couple of other things that are tied directly to your

10:34account, like for example, accessing your bookmarks directly, or if you want it to be able to look at your exact timeline, then you will still need to connect the API, and this will eat into your API credits, where you get a $100 credit up front when you sign up for free, and then it will start eating into those credits. So, I try to limit the usage of those, and everything that's public is free, and even recently, they only did that a couple days ago, they have now included X DMs to work here, and that's also for free, as far as I understand and as far as I've seen. So,

11:10it actually connects to your account and can actually read your DMs and reply to DMs for you. What you can also do, and this is really convenient, is if you have some tweet that you want to save or pass on to your bot, then all you need to do is just tag bot, and as long as your account is connected to X, so you have the connection active, then it's able to basically like take whatever was in that post and send it to your Grok bot. It doesn't have to be your own post, can be somebody else's post, whatever, right? And so, you can see here I said, "Bot, send this post to my

11:44bot and save it as a page." And then in Grok bot, it showed me this message, "Saving your Grok bot wish list post as a page now." And it saved it right here. So, I think it's always passing it to your main bot. In this case, it's my chief of staff. And yeah, so it's a nice way to get these two platforms easily connected and pass information from one to the other. All right, next up, what about coding? How do I do that now? So, I have still most of my coding stuff set up in my cursor. And the nice thing now is it connects very seamlessly into my

12:18Grok bot. So, I have this bot here, my Frame Jam bot. This is the bot that works on my Frame Jam project. And I can tell it, "I want you to, just for demo purposes, start one task inside of my Frame Jam project and then also one cloud task and make sure to start the

12:35cloud task with the Opus model." Okay. So, you can see here what I did and we can go hop over into cursor and just see what's going to happen now. Now, the first thing I said is I wanted to start one task here in my Frame Jam project. So, in cursor, you can create these projects and they're essentially like one long-running thread. And you can see here this demo task was now sent over. Demo task, small read only, give me short status over your Frame Jam repo. Okay. And then it's going ahead and working on this. Now, the cool thing about having it here is from this

13:08project, I can start cloud tasks or I can start local tasks as well. So, if I want to do some things which are, for example, need some rendering or something like that, I want it to be a bit faster, then I would tell my Grok bot like start this task locally. And so, it will know, "Okay, to send it to this project." So that this thread here can like start this local task. If it's just something like on my website, then it just went ahead here into the cloud project. This is tied to my GitHub repo, and then it just started a cloud task here, right? So, this is the other demo

13:40task here that it started. Demo task read only review the Frame Drive site repo and write a short list of the top five on-page SEO improvements. Okay. So, these are kind of the two ways to do it, and you can see here I told it it should start it using the Opus model, so it used the Opus model to do this task. And this way you can control which model it's using. So, this is kind of the way that I do my coding now. I define these high-level goals here for my Grokbot, and I have these plans and just tell it to go and execute, and only come back to

14:07me if it actually needs me. And so, for example, I have here this is like to improve the SEO of this site. There's like this big plan, and he goes through it and manages these things and improves my SEO. And then I have another plan, which is to build out like app features and app improvements, and all of it is done in here. I have this weekly SEO check, so that, you know, every week it checks how well it did and can improve its own plan and keep going, keep doing

14:36more and more things to improve the SEO. And so, this Frame Drive bot here has become kind of my central place where I control this Frame Drive project. Okay, number six. I kind of showed you this already, which is that your Grokbot is able to do things locally for you as well. So, one thing for example that it can do is a grab the latest file from my downloads folder and draft an email, just for demo, but put it in my email draft. Okay, so it will go and grab access actually my local machine, look into my downloads folder, get that file, and then put it into my emails. So, just

15:10like useful to have. It can basically access anything on your machine. It can also do things like using cloud code and codex on your machine, right? So, in my terminal, I obviously have Cloud Code installed. And my Grok Bot is able to use that, right? So, because of that, I can do things like, "Okay, also just for demo purposes, I want you to use Cloud Code locally and Cloud Chrome extension and then just open up some tab and navigate inside of it." Okay, so it finished the other task here of putting it into draft. So, let's just double-check if it's there. Okay, yep, it's there. So, the last file was this

15:49memory export file and it's here, right? So, now I can delete it. And then let's have a look at the other task that it's doing right now. Okay, there you can see it opened up this tab here. You can probably click into the second one here and it should start to navigate around here. And so, Grok Bot is driving Cloud Code on my machine and then Cloud Code has a connection to this Chrome extension, which is able to drive the browser. All right. Hack number seven is to use Composure. I'm not affiliated with them or anything. I just like using that product. Composure is essentially an aggregator of tools. And if you come

16:24in here, you can see if I go into apps, I can essentially connect all kinds of different tools here. So, what's the benefit? Well, I can use the same connection inside of my Cloud Code, inside of my Codex, and also in Grok Bot. So, I don't need to like redo all of the connections again. But for most of my connections, I try to do them through Composure first just because then in the future, if there's a new harness, I don't need to keep

16:50reconnecting them in this new harness. So, that's point number one why I use it, the portability. And then point number two, sometimes these connections also have more capabilities. So, one example here is that there's a Google Sheets connection. And I don't know if this has changed lately, but the last time I checked, if you try to connect Google to Cloud Code directly or like Grok Bot directly, it doesn't exist. So, you can only connect Google Drive. And this means that you aren't able to do actions like, you know, add sheet to an existing spreadsheets and spreadsheet and aggregate column data and all of these things. So, often through

17:25Composio, they've like built these connections through existing APIs that they then provide to you and these have more capabilities that allow you to do more things other than the capabilities that you would get through the connectors that you find here or inside the Cloud Marketplace or inside the ChatGPT plugin marketplace. So, this tip is not just for Grok Bot, but

17:45in general. All right, next one, Grok Bot Bridge. This one's quite fun and I had actually built this because I wanted to migrate all of my scheduled tasks from ChatGPT and Claude over into Grok Bot. So, what this is, just yeah, basically as the name says, it's a connection that allows me to send things from Claude code or

18:05ChatGPT over to my Grok Bot. So, let me show you how this works. So, [snorts] the first thing I did is I set up a bot here called Bridge Bot and inside of this bot, I essentially created one routine, which you can just create it this way. I want you to create a new routine, which essentially accepts a webhook and this is so that I can send commands from my Claude code or ChatGPT over to you via webhook. So, that's all you need, just do that, it will create essentially this routine here, which should then also output a webhook ID for you or like a key essentially. Now, you

18:40then take this key, you go into your ChatGPT and have it create a skill for you that just sends commands over to this key. This skill is called Grok Bot Bridge and what this skill does is it will essentially just submit one command to One's Grok Bot workspace through its cursor automation webhook. Use when One's explicitly asked to send, pass or hand an instruction to Grok Bot. And the way I use it is here, for example, for some of my scheduled tasks, I wanted to move over this entire scheduled task here over to Grok Bot. I just said basically to use that skill. Here you can see that the migration command was

19:17accepted, and I basically moved this entire scheduled task over into my GrokBot. And then you can see now this one is paused here, and they're all running inside my GrokBot now. And this is useful also for other things. Whenever you want to pass information from ChatGPT or Codex into GrokBot, you can just use this method. All right, a couple of other cool features here. One of them is pages. So this one is

19:38relatively new, and I think it's great. It's essentially something like a markdown viewer, or maybe almost like a yeah, like a page viewer inside of GrokBot. And you can just tell it to turn something into a page. Okay, so here I said I wanted to do some X research for me preparing a new YouTube video. And then once it's done all of that research, it created this page here, which I can open up. And so you can see it's nicely formatted and everything. And it also has these like

20:06table features, which are quite nice. These tabs in a table, which are pretty cool. You can share these pages now as well, and you can even open them up in the browser, and then you can share this link. So basically other people can look at that as well, which is pretty cool. Now you can find these pages usually like if this bot created this page, and you click on library, you'll find the pages here, and you can open them up from here as well. Or you can also do command K, and then you can switch to pages here, and search across all of your pages, which yeah, is also nice and

20:39a quick way to access those pages. All right, another feature that they added recently is email inboxes. So I mentioned this previously, but essentially you get an email inbox now for free. And actually you can have pretty much unlimited inboxes now, because they added this feature that you can add a another tag here. So all you need to do is "Hey, I want to claim an email address." And I've already done this, but essentially once you've

21:04claimed it, it will show up in here. You'll see this connected app here, email, and then you'll see the email that you've claimed. Now, mine is this one right here. And what you can do also is I want you to to send a test email to this inbox. And I can take this email address and then add whatever additional tag here, like test, and it should then receive it. So, it's going to send it to itself now, but you can use this as a new inbox. It sent it to its own inbox, and it says it arrived. It shows as received in my main inbox, cuz yeah, obviously

21:41test is just a tag on the same address. Okay. And so, you can use that, for example, to sign up to different services. Like, let's say you wanted to use that to sign up to like an Instagram account or something, then you can use that tag and say this is for Instagram. All right. Finally, let's just do a quick little fire round. Here are two more small features, which I find quite useful. So, one is that if you encounter an issue, can actually just send that as a bug report directly to the SpaceX team. I saw them tweet about it. They have a bot, which is, you know, partly

22:12fixing these autonomously, and then a human is approving these. So, if you find a bug, you can just say like, "Hey, file a bug report and send it to the Grok Bot team about the forms not saving properly into your vault." Then, if I hit that off, it will then give me this here and add a little report here, and then you can just click allow to send it off. So, that's one thing. The other little feature that they added recently is this like edits feature. So, I said, "Can you

22:40just draft something for demo purposes?" I want to see the draft edit feature. And then it created this here, which is a draft that I can actually go in and edit. So, that's pretty cool. This is my edit, and then I can go ahead and send this message when I'm ready. And yeah, this is very useful. Now, I've showed you a bunch of different use cases of what I use it for. Maybe just a couple more. Like, I have this life bot

23:02here, and these are kind of quite fun. Like, a lot of the things that I talked about now are business use cases, but these are some use cases I'm using to save time in my life, to like handle admin tasks, and so on. So, one is, for example, yesterday the shoelaces for my boots ripped, and then I just said, "I want you to go and research on Amazon for shoelaces." It goes and does this research, and just gives me some links here, which I can just go ahead and order them. And then, another example here, the other day I had a problem with my car insurance. Some emails were

23:32written over several months, and I just needed it to go and do that research for me in my email inbox, find the right emails, what I did before, and then just grab the right contract, put them together, draft the email, and send it off again. And normally, this would have cost me a lot of time, and I would have been super grumpy after this. But, here Grokbot just went and handled this for me, which was great. And what I've done now, as well, I've created an accounting bot, which, yeah, does all of my accounting, and it does it surprisingly well. So, just a couple more example of

24:02cool use cases of how it's saving me a lot of time. All right, and that's it for this video. I hope you liked it, and thanks for watching till the end. If you want to grab the Grokbot playbook, I'll put a link down below. You can grab that for free. And also, I'm currently working on this Grokbot masterclass course here inside of my school community. It will be a living course, and I'll be building on it, adding more lessons every day. So, I think this the perfect way if you're a beginner and just want to learn all the way from the fundamentals over to like really using

24:32Grokbot inside of your business or at work effectively. So, if you want to check that out, I'll put a link to my school community below. All right, hope to see you in the next video. Bye-bye.