# I Gave GrokBot Its Own Email and Credit Card (It Actually Worked)

Channel: Riley Brown
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lsnEn0tih4
Duration: 19 min
Language: English
Words: 3200
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[0:00] Today, I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a Grockbot and give him its own email and credit card. For those of you who don't know, Grockbot is the fastest growing general agent platform in the world, created by Cursor, now owned by SpaceX. And today, we're going to create an email for our Grockbot and set up a web hook. So, every email my bot receives triggers him to take action. Then we're going to give him the ability to make purchases with a virtual card using the new Stripe link integration. So my agent can autonomously buy things. Let's go. So here we are in the fastest growing agent

[0:38] platform in the world right now, which is Grockbot by SpaceX. And here's my team of Grockbots over here on the left. And what we're going to be doing today is we're going to be creating a new Grockbot. And we're going to be giving it an email and a credit card. And what does this mean? Just one of these bots right here will be able to send emails on its own address. So it'll have its own email address. And then also this agent will be able to buy things autonomously, right? You can just tell it to go buy whatever it is that you want. And this Grockbot will be able to

[1:16] do that. And you'll be able to set this up in like 5 to 10 minutes. Okay. So let's move into part one, which is giving our agent an email. And so you might be wondering what are the benefits of giving Grockbot an email. Well, the first one that I've noticed by doing this is I can just forward things directly to my Grockbot. If I'm using my email and I get an email that I don't really want to think about or I want my Grockbot to do research, I'll just forward Grockbot the email and it can respond to it, which is really interesting. And the next cool thing

[1:45] about this, and this is what makes Grockbot unique compared to say Claude Co-work or GBT Work or any of the other agent platforms, is bots can be triggered by the emails that we're about to set up. And this is due to a very specific feature that they have, which are routine web hooks. Let me explain. You see, most of the agent platforms have these things called automations or routines. And normally they look something like this, like weekdays at 10 am do this thing. However, with Grockbot, you can actually create a routine that runs on a trigger. And this trigger can be any of these predefined ones like a Slack message. But they also

[2:27] have this thing called web hook. It's a little bit advanced, but you'll be able to set this up in like two or three minutes. And what this will allow your agent to do is be triggered by emails immediately. When your Grockbot receives an email, it will be triggered to work immediately, which is very cool. Um, and the third reason is bots can reach out to people and receive email in their own isolated inbox. You could give an email to all of your Grock bots if you wanted to. Okay, so let's get started here, shall we? What we're going to do first is we are actually going to create a new

[2:58] agent. And this is also known as a new bot or a new Grockbot. So, we're just going to create a new bot. And we're gonna this bot we're going to be giving an email and a credit card. And what we're going to be doing here is you are named Jimmy and you buy um you are an executive assistant for [snorts] our company agent native. You will have an email and you will buy things for the office when people ask you. people at the company can message you to buy things and that is your main functionality and you are going to be a

[3:37] useful agent. So creating an agent is as easy as just telling the name and what it's going to do. And as you can see here right now it's named new bot, but the bot will actually update this automatically. And there you go. Got it. I'm Jimmy agent natives EA. I'll buy office stuff when people ask. you approve every purchase and chase contractor payments. And you can see here it updated um the description. And I can add a little um coh thing here which says um I'll just put EA. And so right now this is an unassigned bot. I'm actually going to pin this bot to the top. And Jimmy is

[4:16] now part of the team. Okay. So I need to give you an email. And so in order to give it an email, we're going to be using a plugin. And so the plugins that I have, I have 14 plugins installed right now. These are the plugins. It fully controls Slack, notion. It has Gmail, has access to my ClickUp X, and a bunch of other things. The plugin that we're going to be using is called agent

[4:44] mail. It's literally called agent mail. And so I want to use agent mail. Let's set that up. That's what I'm going to say. Let's do the plugin. Set it up. And it says that we will be getting a connect card, which just means it's going to give me a little UI component that I can set up this thing called agent mail. Okay. So, it just gave me this little card here. We can authorize agent mail. And here we're just going to click allow. So, all you have to do is create an account. And then it says authorization complete. Now, I can just

[5:19] say complete. Let's do this. What can we make his email address and then give me link to the dashboard? Okay, here. I like it. That's fine. I like that email. So, Jimmy's email is jimmy-bot at agentmail.to. And I'm just going to say put this in your description. Never forget this that this is your email. Now what we can do here is we can go to our agent mail console which is just where agent mail is and we can see our inboxes and we can see that it configured this email called jimmy-bot at agentmail.to and just to test that this email actually works I can copy this link

[6:14] right here. What we can do is we can paste in this email right here and we can just say test testing Jimmy inbox and we can send off that email. And there you go. So this email address works. So from Riley agentnative.inc, we send an email to jimmy-bot agentmail.to. And so now I can go to my bot and say, "Uh, please tell me if there's any emails on this address." And now Jimmy

[6:46] will respond. And he said, "Ceing Jimmy-bot@agentmail.to now." Yep. And here it goes. One unread from you, Riley. And subject is test body testing Jimmy inbox. Very good. So, our agent has an email address and it can view it. And so, what we want is we want Jimmy to be able to watch the email address so that if anybody sends Jimmy an email, Jimmy

[7:14] will immediately be aware of this email. And in order to do this, we need to use something called web hooks. And so, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Jimmy and I'm going to use this prompt right here. I want to configure a routine where you can watch this email address, use web hooks. Please set it up and then give me full instructions on how to set up this automation fully on agent mail. So, I'm going to run this prompt and it's going to create the routine. Found how other bots wire agent mail web hooks matching that? Then I'll save yours. Okay, here we go. As you can

[7:51] see here, it created a routine. And so when we click on this, when a web hook fires, it will do these instructions. So read the web hook, fetch the full thread from agent mail, do not rely on the web hook preview alone, tell Riley in the chat in a short message who sent it, subject, etc., etc. So it'll basically give me an update right here. What we

[8:14] need to do is make this actually work. And so here it gave us some instructions. And what we're going to do is we are going to navigate to agent mail. Now over here we're going to see this thing called web hooks. We're going to click on web hooks and we are going to add an endpoint. So we're going to add an endpoint right here. And then what we're going to do is we're going to navigate to Grockbot. And what we need to do is we need to go over to this web

[8:39] hook and we're going to click on this. And here it has this post to. So I'm going to select this and I'm going to copy it. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to Google Chrome and agent mail. I'm going to paste this in right here. And I'm just going to give this a description. Jimmy's uh inbox web hook. Now, what we're going to be doing is subscribing to events. And so, basically, it'll turn these events into a web hook or or it'll trigger the automation. And so, I'm just going to click message here and scroll down and hit done. So, now it is Jimmy's inbox

[9:19] web hook. So after we've created this endpoint, we need to do one more thing. We need to go to this advanced tab and you're going to come down to this custom headers part right here. This is the final step in setting this up. You need to go back to Jimmy and what you need to do is you are need to type just follow my lead here. You're going to copy this key right here, this sender key. You're going to go back and all you're going to

[9:43] type in is authorization. and you're going to type it exactly as it appears right here. Then you're going to type this right here which is bearer. You're going to type bearer and then you're going to paste this after pressing space. So just like that bearer space then this key right here. That's it. Now you're going to press this button. Now we've added it. And now we've added this key right here. Okay. So, now it should be connected. Now, let's give it a try. I'm going to send a message to

[10:20] jimmy.bot@agentmail.to. Hey, uh, please update me on my August YouTube metrics. How many views did I get in August? And what were my best videos? So, I'm going to send it. Now, what we want to see immediately is this firing. We'll see. Oh, there we go. Jimmy's inbox. Watch. It's spinning. And you can see that it's working. And if you click on this right here, you can see the run history. And

[10:59] you can see that it's running just now. And so, you can see that this automation works. It should have seen my message. And we'll see what it says here. You can tell that it's working. Okay, here it is. New mail on jimmy.-bot at agentmail.to from Riley Brown. And here it shows what I said. Now I can say, okay, um, research it and uh, send an email back. And now, Gro, now Grockbot or Jimmy should be able to do the research because it has contacts and it will be able to send an email back in the future. I or I could have easily set that up so the routine would

[11:40] automatically respond. Actually, I can say that and in the future when it's me emailing you, respond here and via email and then it should update this routine so that it does that. And here it said it locked that in. You email Jimmy, I answer here and on the thread. Anyone else just gets a ping here. That's probably ideal. All right. Right. So there you go. It did the task that was

[12:08] in the email and we now have it set up. So our Grockbot now has email. Now time for step two and we need to give Grockbot, more specifically, we need to give Jimmy a credit card. And so here's why I'm really excited about Jimmy getting a credit card. The first thing is that this means the agent can research for hours and then make a purchasing decision and then it can just check out. Then you can also set up routines to buy things. So every day on Friday I need you to order this thing or that thing. We can set that up on a routine. And then the final benefit that

[12:47] I think is really important for right now in the state of AI agents is I will get approval. So, I will get a notification on my phone that says, um, do you want to approve this transaction? And then all I have to do is press one button and the agent will complete the transaction, which is really cool. And

[13:03] so, for this, I'm going to set up link. So, I'm going to tell Jimmy, yo, I want you to be able to buy things using link. Set that up. That's all you have to type in. And we could say like, let's configure plugin link. And it says installing link now. All right. And so here it sent me this little card here. So I can go ahead and authorize this

[13:29] link. So I'm going to hit allow. Authorization complete. You can close this tab. And now it said connects card is in the chat. Hit it when you're ready. So tell me, are you ready to make payments? Is that possible now? And it says yes. Link is connected as Riley Brown with a visa at 5160. I can buy. You still approve every charge first. That is

[14:02] amazing. So now what I want you uh to do is change your automation like our routine that we set up. If you get an email from me telling you to buy something, I want you to go through with it. Um, if it's from that email above, right? I want the ultimate end goal is I want to be able to email my bot and then it will go off and buy something for me, right? Because that we're using both use

[14:30] cases, the email and the credit card. So, I'm going to go ahead and try it like that. Okay, so it's done. And so now what we can do is we can let's go ahead and go to email. And so I can email my bot. So, let's go ahead and email Jimmy. So, we're going to email Jimmy and say, "Hey, I need you to buy something. I need you to buy a nice notebook from Amazon so it gets here ASAP. I want a red one. Make it a nice one, please." So, now I can fire this

[15:05] off. There you go. The web hook fired. And so Jimmy just received an email to his own email address. And now he's going to go buy with a credit card the item that we asked him to buy in the email, which was the notebook. And look at this, Jimmy. He's using his computer. You can

[15:28] literally watch him use his computer. He's doing research. He found this uh lecture notebook hard cover. Very cool. I'm just going to keep letting him cook. Okay, he's got he's on the uh delivery address page. Okay, so I have my phone out right here and I should get a notification and then all I have to do is approve it and we'll be

[15:50] good. Okay, so it is asking for approval. I just hit allow. And after you hit allow, it shows the breakdown. You can see the total cost with tax. And now what I want to show you is if I wasn't on uh my computer or anything, I would have gotten a notification. And I want to show you what this notification would look like. And look at this. Grockbot is requesting to spend 2776 on Amazon. I'm just going to click approve. And then I'm going to do my Face ID. So anytime your agent will try and purchase anything, you'll get one of

[16:26] these notifications on this link app. And there you go. We just approved it. And there you go. It just said link approved. And this would all be happening in the background if I wasn't watching. I'm on Amazon Checkout. I'll ping you when it confirms. So, let me explain what's happening here. The AI went on its virtual computer because um Grockbot has access to a computer. In fact, it's still using it right now. And what it did is it determined the exact cost for the purchase and then it used a link to spin up a new virtual card for the exact price of the item. It then

[17:04] pinged me and I approved the creation of this card. And now it's automatically going to use this card to make the purchase in just a few seconds. And there you go. Ordered. It ordered this notebook for 2776. It arrives Wednesday, September 2nd, Amazon order. And then it gave me this order uh number. And there you go. I sent an email to Jimmy. And then Jimmy, my Grockbot, who has a credit card, went on Amazon and made the purchase. So we gave our Grockbot an email and a credit card. For email, we used agent mail. And for the credit card, we used link, which is by Stripe,

[17:47] by the way. It's really easy to set up. It's super trustworthy because it's Stripe. And when your agent goes to make a payment, it will determine the price and then it will spin up a new card. So, it'll spin up a new card and let's say the price is like it was I think it was

[18:05] like 2736. Once it determined that, it then asked me for approval. So then it got approval to create a card that was also for 2726. Then it automatically used the card to make purchase. And I'm assuming pretty soon we're going to get rid of this approval step. I just think right now since this is such a new thing, you do kind of need this approval step. And I do think it's pretty important right now and it's pretty fun. Anyway, we gave

[18:38] Grockbot an email and a credit card. Thank you guys so much for watching. Please like and subscribe to this video. It helps me out a ton.

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