Everything You Need to Know About Grok Bot (Full Grok Build)

0:00I'm paying $300 a month just so I could use Grok bots new viral app. This is through XAI and now I'm on the super heavy Grok plan. I'm a big agent user. I've been using Hermes for a long time. Before that I was using open claw right when it came out. My AI agent runs my entire business. It posts to all of my social accounts, runs all of my ads and is my executive assistant. So I wanted to see how Grok bot stacked up against Hermes. So I signed up for the $300 per month super heavy Grok so I could use this new feature. So today I want to

0:28bring to you exactly what my experience was with Grok bot and whether it's worth it for you to set this up and how to save a bunch of money so you don't end up wasting money like I did. Now what I did pretty much as soon as I signed up for Grok bot is started playing with it but mostly I wanted to port all of my existing bot configurations into Grok bot. So I'll show you how that really worked as well. And if you stick around, there's actually a surprise lesson that I learned through all of this and I actually ended up changing my entire Claude code workflow based off of what I

0:56learned from signing up for Grok bot and it has nothing to do with Grok bot. This is probably the biggest finding from this video that you're going to get. So stick around till the end so I can share that with you. Now some quick context just so you know why my answer means anything. I run several eight-figure marketing agencies. They're Inc. 5000 companies. I've [music] got thousands of people inside of my AI automation insiders community. So I teach this. I travel the country speaking about AI and I'm actually using AI to build and run my [music] business, not just creating content about it. All right. Now Grok

1:23bot came out August 11th and it's gone ultra viral. All kinds of creators have been doing crazy videos about it being a complete game changer. [music] And I found some of that to be true, some of it to be not true. So let's actually talk about Grok bot and what it is and then we'll go into actual

1:38implementation and lessons and findings. So you can sign up for Grok bot on x.ai/bot and you'll be able to get some information about Grok bot. Now the standout information here, what makes it really unique, is it's not free. You need to be on one of either Grok's heavy paid plans or Cursor's heavy paid plans. If you'll recall, XAI actually bought Cursor for like $60 billion pretty recently and they acquired all of their coding models, too. So, their coding models have gotten a lot better. That's very important for Grok Bot because Grok Bot runs on these new advanced coding models. [music] So, here's the site for Grok Bot. As you can see, this is what

2:13it looks like. Here's my actual Grok Bot, so you can see it in practice. I'll be walking through that in just a minute. It is a app that sits on your computer. So, I actually have a little Grok Bot icon down here and when I open it up, it's just a desktop app. However, unlike most agents that you've used in the past where you either need to spin up a VPS, a virtual server, or run it on a Mac Mini, with Grok Bot, each one gets its own dedicated virtual server immediately. That's why they have to charge money for it cuz there's server

2:37costs. And here's what they advertise. It works where you work, so it actually gets its own browser. It can sign in to things and take action. You can show Grok Bot how to do things just like how you train a Claude skill. You can actually click around and teach it what to do. Connecting is really easy and apparently they get smarter over time. I have not seen that yet, but I'm sure it's true. Now, Grok Bot's theory is

2:56that one agent shouldn't do every job. And this is the theory that I think made it viral. If you remember Paperclip went viral, you know, 6 to 12 months ago, all the agents talking to each other and coordinating work. Kind of the same theory. You don't want one agent doing everything because then it has all of these crazy prompts and it gets [music] confused and there's context rot. So, they advertise you can give each bot a job and you can have one master agent that coordinates with all of the other agents. Now, a couple important points about Grok Bot. This is my Hermes agent and I'm texting with it every day. It's

3:26sending me text messages with updates and status reports. With Grok Bot, you can only communicate with it through the app, which actually is really seamless and easy and fast. So, I actually don't mind it at all. Whether it's on your phone or on the computer and it's always on because it lives in its own server. Now, the big drawback for most people is going to be price. So, a lot of you, if you're using agents, you know, you can spin up Open Claw or Hermes on a $5 a per in server or $600 for a Mac Mini one time and then you never have to pay a

3:55monthly fee again. However, with Grok Bot, there is a pretty large barrier to entry that you need to pay in order [music] to use it. Now, they actually just dropped the pricing. When I signed up, you could not get Grok Bot for $100 per month. You needed to be on, I think, at least their two or $300 per month plan, but it seems that they've brought that down since the virality maybe has slowed down. Now, a couple important things to note here, you do get access with Cursor if you want it. However, the big difference that you're going to see is this. Significantly higher usage across

4:21chat, imagine, voice, and build. So, you can either get it through paying Cursor or paying for Grok. Either one will give you access to Grok Bot. I recommend paying through Grok. That way you also get access to the next thing that I'm going to share with you a little bit later in this video, the big transformational piece for my cloud code workflow. So, I actually have their heavy plan, which is $300 per month. I wanted the full usage of Grok's latest model. I wanted to fully test it. So,

4:45this is the one that I selected. However, it looks like now you can get it through their $100 per month plan. So, awesome. Once you upgrade and install Grok Bot, you're going to see something like this. It looks like a really simple interface and you're only going to have this one agent here that you're talking to. The first thing that you're probably going to want to do is connect all of your things. So, down here you'll see plugins and just like maybe you've seen my Victor videos in the past, you can just come through and connect all of the things that you normally use in your day-to-day

5:11workflows, all of your marketing tools, your your operational tools, your Gmail. And if you want to see the ones that I've connected, here they are. We've got Appify, we've got X, we've got Super base, you've got Higgs Field. So, they've got a lot of these connectors already built in. And, of course, you can bring outside connectors in. So, if you're like, "Hey, I want to integrate Hyros." It'll actually collect your key securely and it'll build an integration for Hyros for you. So, connections, really easy, really seamless. Of course, that's what we expected. However, that's not a huge advantage over Hermes because if you are in my programs or you've

5:42watched my videos, you'll know that we use something called Compozio, which makes it really easy to connect all of your apps for free and you can just give this to your Hermes. So, integrating plugins and apps isn't such a differentiator, but it was in the past. So, they do make it really easy. Then it's going to walk you through a little bit of an interview process and Grok bot, the initial agent that you have set up, can actually spin up these sub-agents based on what tasks and scheduled tasks and tools that you're using day-to-day. So, as you can see, it's spun up all of these additional

6:11little bots. I've got my cold email ops, my long-form desk, my graphic design. It actually built these itself, built the descriptions for them, come up with the the names for them. And if I click into any one of these, I haven't actually interacted with this one yet. It's just a new bot that was created by my master Grok bot. But each of these, if I click into it, should have a description and I should get notifications when it finishes. So, this is like the system prompt for what this thing actually does. Now, in terms of integrations, you might think that different sub-agents

6:39have their own sets of integrations. That's not true. They all share the integrations. So, you don't have to worry about connecting one integration to multiple things. Now, what's really cool is this master agent, if you do have a master agent like I have here and I've pinned it. So, as you can see, I can unpin, I can edit the profile. And this is really cool. You can actually see one agent communicating with the others and you get push notifications when it's done after it's done talking to it and getting information from that other agent. And it's pretty cool to watch them interacting, see it messaging

7:06back, see a task getting done over here. But the big question remains, is it really worth it? Do these sub-agents actually have a big change in the results that you're getting compared to using something like Hermes, which manages all of my tasks, all of my scheduled tasks, all of my tools, all from a single agent. So, I had Grok bot do a couple of things for me. It built a presentation, it did some cold email work, it did some N8N work, it did some review work, it wrote and posted to some Reddit threads. All of the things that my Hermes agent was doing, I had it

7:35temporarily paused while Grok bot took over. Now, you might be saying, "Jay, how did you get it trained on all of these different sub-agents already. Like, didn't that take a long time? Not really. And what I recommend that you guys do once you start using this is actually have your Claude code. So, let's go ahead and open up my Claude code here. I've got my LGJ operating system. And the first thing that I did was say, "Hey, I just started using Grok bot. I would like you to go over my entire knowledge base, my scheduled tasks, everything that my Hermes agent does, and give me a zip folder to train

8:05Grok bot on all of these tasks and set up sub-agents." And it actually did some research and it put together a zip folder. I gave that zip file over to this master agent and it built everything for me. Here's kind of how that initial conversation went. And also, here's all of the routines that I had running. And right now, I have all of them paused. And I'll tell you why in just a second. I said, "You're going to be my master agent, coordinate with all of the sub-agents. You are the one I will talk to directly and delegate tasks. I'll be sharing a zip folder that

8:29has all the information and skills and integrations and tooling for what we will need. You're going to be taking over for my Hermes bot." I just told it I configured a bunch of plugins. How do I sign into them? And then it prompted me one at a time to actually initiate the the login cuz some of them use OAuth and some of them use API. So, we just

8:45spent some time configuring plugins. Before it was added, it either prompted me to sign in like this, authorize, or asked me for an API key. So, we just went through, configured everything. I removed one of the plugins. As you can see when it needs to do a sign in or I need to do something in the computer, this is its screen. And I can actually click into a screen and see what it's doing at any given time. This is its

9:05computer that it always has access to. I'm going to go ahead and minimize that now so we can keep going. And here is that zip folder that I dropped to it. Unpacking now, it's a 12-bot provision pack, not an import. So, it went ahead and built all of the sub-agents based off of this zip folder that I gave it. From there, we configured all of those

9:23little sub-agents and specialized bots. And it did it. And we turned on all of the scheduled tasks and Grok bot started running. So, all in all, in theory, sounds really cool. But what I noticed was it wasn't quite doing as good of a job as my Hermes agent was. Now, maybe that is because I didn't spend nearly as much time training it and refining it as I did with my Hermes agent. But, from what I can tell, Hermes is still the better agent harness. Now, yes, you're going to need to either deploy it on a virtual server or get a Mac mini like I have so I can iMessage it. So, there is

9:52that kind of additional steps, kind of additional cost whereas Grok bot you can kind of just launch it, it already has access to servers, you don't have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about integrating an LLM cuz it just works on Grok. However, I've still found my Hermes model to be better than Grok bot. So, this is Bob, I text it, this is my Hermes agent. He lives on my Mac mini. We also can deploy these really easily using a VPS. In fact, if you're in my AI Automation Insiders community, we literally deploy these for you in one click. So, this does everything. It's

10:19connected to all of my tools through Compozio. It sends comments and DMs across all of the social channels, monitors all of my ads. If I tell it to do anything, it's able to pretty much power through and figure it out. It uses my Codex subscription, which I have a $200 per month subscription, but you can run Hermes on a $20 per month chat GPT

10:38subscription. And that's pretty much it. Or you can get really frugal and get like open router or an open source model and run it on something cheaper. But, it does a great job running on Codex. I also really prefer the way that Hermes handles context windows, auto compaction, scheduled tasks. It just does a really nice job and manages everything really well. But, the question remains, is that one agent responsible for all of those tasks done it going to do as good of a job at all of those different tasks as Grok bot will since it had it can delegate all of those tasks to sub agents. Now, I am

11:08somebody who does a lot of tasks. There's a lot of different scheduled tasks, there's a lot of tools, there's a lot of different things that I ask it to do. So, I feel like I would be a pretty good use case of determining if it was capable of it or not. And I'm here to tell you, yes, Hermes agent is just as capable as Grok bot at executing multiple tasks, doing multiple things, all without having to delegate to a thousand different sub agents. And most of you aren't doing things that are that complex. You don't have a million different tools or businesses that you're overlooking. You're just using it

11:39for pretty simple use cases, social media automation, executive assistant stuff. This is my Hermes agent running on my Mac mini. This is the user interface. If you ever want to log in and see it, they do have one. And Hermes actually does have the ability to delegate tasks to subagents through [music] Kanban and through agent

11:56orchestration. They have this built in. So, it's essentially the same thing that Grokbot is doing just behind the scenes. All right. Now, before I go into what actually really works and what I actually implemented, and it's not Grokbox, I'm probably not going to be using that long term. I'm going to stick to Hermes. It's a great solution. And I still think it's the best possible solution for most of you that want to train a bot over time. Now, if you don't want to worry about setting up a VPS or getting a Mac mini, we can actually deploy them for you and just fill out this form and within a minute you'll

12:24have a Hermes agent that you can message back and forth that just works for you. It also comes preloaded with all agent skills. Or if you don't want us to host your Hermes agent for you, that's fine, too. You can go to legionai.com/bob. Bob is the name of my Hermes agent, it's what I call it, as you can see from my text messages. I'm messaging back and forth with Bob. This way you can just copy our configuration into your own Hermes agent so that you can host it yourself on whatever platform that you want. And for those complete do-it-yourselfers, just know Hermes is free. It's at this GitHub repo, Hermes

12:54agent. It's updated all of the time. It's got 235,000 stars. It is probably the most popular and most powerful AI agent harness at this time. And in my humble opinion, after trying multiple different agent harnesses, open claw, paper claw, Hermes by far my favorite, by far the best. However, [music] if you do plan on subscribing to one of Grok's heavier plans, which you might, then you might not need Hermes agent. And now I might just talk you into subscribing to one of Grok's paid [music] plans, anyways. Now, here's why I recommend subscribing to Grok, whether or not you decide to use Grokbot. If you already have a Hermes agent and it's working

13:29great, awesome. If not, you might want to sign up for Grokbot anyways because of this. Grok's latest model 4.6 just came out and it's significantly better than GPT Soul in most use cases. If you just click through most of the benchmarks, you'll see that it's pretty much just crushing them and I think they're going to continue to crush them. They're also extremely generous with credits just like ChatGPT is. Why is this important? Since you're probably using Claude code, I'm using Claude code as my primary agent driver. So, let's go ahead and open up my Claude code. So, now that we're in my terminal, this is running on tmux, but what's important is

14:01this is all running Claude code. All of these sessions are Claude code. These are actual real sessions that I'm running right now. Now, before signing up for Grok, I had these two skills that I would use pretty frequently. They were {slash} codex review where I would actually have GPT 5.6 Soul where it would actually go back and forth [music] with Claude to do an adversarial review and make sure that the plan that we're coming up with and reviewing is actually good. And it was a game-changer. It absolutely caught way more bugs than Claude did on its own and really improved my developing process. However, GPT 5.6 took a long time to go back and

14:36forth and review with Claude. It would miss things all the time and then it would catch things and it just wasn't the best possible co-pilot. I thought it was at the time and then I would actually use another command called codex execute to actually write the code. Since it's much cheaper than using Fable to write code, it would use GPT 5.6 Soul to actually write the code and make the fewest mistakes. And this ran on my $200 per month ChatGPT subscription. So, it saved me a ton of money in Claude code and stopped me from hitting my limits. And by the way, guys, if you want access to any of my Claude

15:06code skills, you can go to leadgenjay.com/skills and I put all of my most important ones here so you can come in here at any time and kind of see what I'm actually using in my day-to-day and install them for yourself. So, if any of these commands look interesting, they're all in here. Anyways, now that I had this $300 per month super generous Grok subscription with all of these new Grok credits. I needed to see how well this could perform, how good it was at coding. So, what I did is I ran a head-to-head and I just posted about this in my AI automation insiders community. It is

15:34free if anyone wants to join. This is where I give the latest updates, all of my tactics, all of my skills, you can download them all within here. But, I posted this a while ago and actually showed the benchmarks. Here we go. So, let's actually review these now. Grok did the same task in 12 minutes 53 seconds compared to about 30 minutes with Codex. And that's with 45 test passes compared to Codex's 33 test passes. So, it was more than two times faster and more accurate and ran more tests. Now, in order to use this inside of your Claude code, you need to install the bridge. And this bridge is actually

16:03a free GitHub repo that you can just install. It's from Grok. So, it's this Grok build plugin CC. And this is the Grok build Claude code bridge. So, you'll give Claude this GitHub repo and it'll install all of those skills and commands that I use inside of my actual Claude code terminal. So, now when I'm doing anything new, I'm actually going to type {slash} Grok and it will call Grok on my paid subscription to review and write the code. So, now instead of just using Fable for everything, cuz yeah, if you look at the benchmarks, Fable still crushes everything, but it's a token consumer. So, now I can use Opus

16:375 and have it review and write code with Grok's latest model, which is significantly better than Opus. And I'll get a much better and more accurate result. So, that was my big takeaway from this whole Grok experiment. Now, I'm probably not going to continue to use Grok bot. However, I probably am going to keep my Grok subscription. I don't know whether I keep the $300 or downgrade to the $200, but it is proving so far to be worth it. Mostly as a Claude code copilot. So, I hope this video was helpful. Hopefully, it saves some of you some time, some money, some experimentation. And if you want us to

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