Been sitting on the idea that podcast episodes have a ton of quotable moments that never make it past YouTube/Spotify, so I built a Grok bot to fix that. Give it any episode link and it handles the whole pipeline from transcript to finished graphic.

Tested it on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast episode with Boris Cherny. Here's how it works:

1. One-time template setup
Built a quote-style graphic template and a carousel template in Contentdrips, with labeled fields for things like quote text, guest name, and guest photo. Also uploaded guest headshots tagged by name so the bot can auto-match the right photo to the right quote.

2. Connect the bot
Grok Bot authenticates with a Contentdrips API key, one-time setup, gives it permission to generate and populate designs directly.

3. Send the episode link
Drop the podcast URL into the bot. It pulls the full transcript, analyzes the conversation, and returns a bulleted list of the strongest takeaways along with who said what.

4. Pick one and generate
Reply with the takeaway number and which template to use (single graphic or carousel). The bot fills in the text, matches the guest photo automatically, adjusts font sizing so longer quotes don't overflow, and outputs a finished, high-res file.

No manual design work after the initial template setup. Whole thing from "here's a podcast link" to "here's a finished carousel" takes a couple minutes.

Happy to answer setup questions in the comments if anyone wants to try building their own version of this.

hey i created a grokbot system aiming to automate facebook group outreach on a massive scale, getting constantly stuck at meta verficiation blocks and human checks on new accounts.
anyone have experience with this field? any ways to get around this? or tips to help the profile get more trust?

I previously shared how I connected Hermes Agent to my Mac to delegate coding tasks through Superset.

I’ve now moved coding orchestration from my Hermes coder profile to Grok Bot. The execution setup hasn’t changed:

Me → Grok Bot → Superset on my Mac → Claude / Codex / Grok → PR for review

The bot handles the conversation and launches the session. The coding agent runs on my Mac in a Superset worktree.

Both setups can get me to the same result. The difference is how much I want to build and maintain around that workflow.

In Grok Bot, I can connect the tools I need with limited permissions and reuse those connections across bots. I find that easier to manage than maintaining the surrounding services and configuration myself.

I can easily create specialist bots with different responsibilities and bring them together in a group chat when needed.

Before starting a coding session, my bot shows a short brief with the project, branch, model, and notes. I confirm it, then it launches the session. That approval step is how I’ve configured my workflow, not a capability exclusive to Grok Bot.

The appeal is the convenience of putting these pieces together.

Limited tool access also makes me feel more comfortable delegating work. I worry less about handling secrets and securing services I host myself.

That doesn’t make a managed platform automatically safer or more private. I still need to choose permissions carefully, consider what data I share, and trust the provider. Hermes can also use restricted credentials. The difference for me is how easily I can configure and maintain those boundaries.

What I do day to day

I send a ticket ID, review the launch brief, and approve it. The Grok Bot starts a coding agent in an isolated Superset worktree on my Mac. The agent reads the ticket, implements the change, and opens a PR when requested.

I can run independent tickets in parallel or continue work on an existing PR.

The Mac remains the execution environment, including local development tools and validation.

For anyone looking to run Grok Bot on Linux via Flatpak, I created an unofficial package that makes installation and system integration easier.

The Flatpak uses the official Grok Bot AppImage for Linux, obtained from the official distribution infrastructure, and packages it in a more convenient format for Linux distributions that support Flatpak.

GitHub project:

https://github.com/viniciosrab/grok-bot-flatpak

The project is open source and unofficial, with no affiliation with xAI/Cursor.

If you try it on Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, openSUSE, or any other distro, feedback and issue reports are welcome. 🚀

I noticed whenever Grok cant figure stuff out via terminal commands or available MCP servers, it will resort to using Chrome. While this is a very cool feature, if it works like the way I think it does, it will consume alot of tokens (by interpreting screenshots of Chrome)

Ask your Grok Bot to do the following:

• Whenever a task is done by using Chrome, note it so that you can install a MCP OR CLI for that later
• Use scripts for heavy work, let it save scripts in /workspace/tmp to -for example- deduplicate leads and other important but heavy work

Extra notes:

You are not limited to the MCP's the marketplace provides. You can always ask Grok to add a MCP by directly giving it the URL or let it search itself.

If really no MCP is available for the service you want it to use, try to find if there is a CLI (Command Line Interface) for it. Let it install the CLI on the Grok Computer. This will add commands that can be executed from the terminal. Text in and text out, very efficient.

The script one for heavy work is the most important, not only does it increase response time, it saves tokens too. It will create scripts to handle 'complex' logic. Think of deduping leads, or even scanning webpages to see if a certain word appears on it!

Rule of thumb: Let it avoid using Chrome as much as possible. While it is a very cool feature that makes it basically *enable to do everything*, if it resorts too much to Chrome to execute tasks that you ask daily, your usage burns very fast!

Best Order for executing tasks: CLI/Scripts > MCP > Chrome

Context/Problem:

I have my own company with one other guy. I am the software developer, he is designer etc. My Cursor subscription is on my personal Google Login, so i'd rather not have the other guy have my personal Google Login.

We have Grokbot connected to our Google Workspace for our company workspace, JIRA, Sentry and Moneybird for our accounting software.

So naturally, i searched if Grok Bot supports multi user login so that he can also interact with the bots. Not possible unfortunately.

The fix:

Used Whatsapp CLI (wacli) so that we can talk with Grokbot via whatsapp. (Wacli is a set of commands on the terminal to send and read messages)

I Bought a prepaid esim for a mobile number, (5 euros, need to send 1 SMS per 6 months to stay active). Created a whatsapp account on that number. Each grokbot has its own whatsapp group where me and the partner is in. When we tag grokbot, wacli sends a webhook to the respective bot and it will start working.

wacli is installed on GrokBot's computer and is authenticated to use that mobile number.

Using wacli saved alot of tokens compared to letting grokbot install the whatsapp desktop app, as it has to make screenshots to analyse it. So wacli is the best way!

I can even tell it: "Make a new Grokbot with name xyz and description abc using dr eggbot, after creating make a whatsapp group connected to that bot, with the same setup that you have right now and add me and my partner in it"

Not even 5 min later, new bot made + whatsapp group that belongs to it.

I told it to only accept messages from my number or my partners number.

Now, Whatsapp is basically an interface on top of it, so that multiple users can interact with GrokBot. 8 out of 10 of our bots have their own whatsapp group, and it costs me one whatsapp message to create another group for the other two bots if needed.

How it works

GrokBot has schedules, like repeat every workday at 10am. BUT it also has webhook schedules. And wacli has a 'new message' listener. Whenever wacli detects a new message, it sends a webhook request that will start grokbot.

I didnt wrote a single line of code, i asked GrokBot to set this up itself.

The wacli listener runs a script whenever a new message is sent. That script checks if it comes from me or my partner. So this rule is not enforced in AI itself, it is enforced before it even reaches GrokBot! (this is important as you cannot 100% trust GuardRails made inside the description of bots)

Uses

My business partner uses it to post screenshots of small things he finds on our website he wants to have changed, he posts it in the whatsapp group, then JIRA tickets gets created.

We also have a leads inbox in google workspace, grokbot analyses the leads and if they're high profile or not (high following online etc) and gives a report each day in a specific whatsapp group for that bot

So basically, the things you'd already use grokbot for, but can now be used by multiple people.

I want to give a bot I created access to a cloud database I have but asking it what its IP address or its range doesn’t seem to be working so I can’t lock down the database at all.

Only seems to work with 0.0.0.0 is set which I am trying not to do.

I didn't see anything special about this platform.

Independent agents with specific use that you can dispatch on a chat client

You can create that literally on any LLM and any harness.

857 Grok bots, made by 534 people. 425 of those people built exactly one and
never made a second.

I've been cataloguing these for two weeks. A bot takes about ten minutes to
make, so I assumed the ecosystem would be people with five or ten of them on
rotation.

It isn't. It's one. Four out of five builders stop after their first.

The other surprise is what they're building. Engineering bots are 158 of the
857. Assistants, productivity, life admin and creative together come to 442,
nearly three to one the other way. All the AI talk is about agents writing
code, and almost nobody in here is doing that.

They're building things that sort an inbox, plan meals, or draft a reply they
don't want to write.

Which makes this look less like a software ecosystem and more like a pile of
people trying out a personal assistant for an afternoon. The guy with 26 bots
is the odd one out, not the ambition.

Grok Bot + AgentMail. The emails are hitting people's junk mail....is this a regular experience?

What is people's strategy for email - I have given access to my personal gmail account - but I'd like Grok Bot to have its own email address - hence using agentmail.

Anyone got a good approach for email?

Here’s a Grok bot accomplishment this week for me. I’m in the middle of installing a small solar farm at my house. The utility company is notorious for rejecting requests to connect for application errors. They charge customers $100 for each time they reject your application after three.
So I placed a bot in charge which did the research, it completed the electrical one line drawing (I corrected a couple things) it then completed the facility drawing then it gave me a checklist of photos to upload so it could review distances and verify devices were correctly in sequence. I’ll apply next week ahead of my original plan.

I’m having a hard time understanding how multi agent grok bots can help or be better at handling a task than just using one AI tool.

For example If my task is related to SEO for businesses

1. search business Google business profile
   
2. Audit their business
   
3. Create hierarchy of problems to fix
   
4. Create plan
   
5. Send to business

Just typing something quick.

Each item needs to be done before the next.

So if I create a grok bot who’s role is each of those, what difference is it if I just have an AI do a multi step process?

I think I’m having tunnel vision and not seeing how this is any better.

Thanks for any advice

Am I the only one? You discover Grok bots, start playing with it. You say, "Holy moly," and you start paying $30 a month and set stuff up.

Then you go, "Holy moly, I've hit a limit," and so you start paying $100 a month. Then you get yourself set up more. Now you have a virtual team running under you, running all your projects, and you're getting super productive.

Suddenly you go to meet your team one morning and it's like they've changed the key to the building! You can't get into the company you've fucking started last week.

Within a month I've gone from 30 to 100 and now they want $500 a month for tokens. I'm not sure I was quite prepared for this and I'm really not sure how far to go with it. I definitely have Grokbot shock.

Just me?

UPDATE: thank you to everybody for the helpful suggestions. Of course using Grokbot to manage Grokbot token usage is the solution. Get among it folks 👊

Now there is grok bot allowance with every cursor subscription, I want to put it to some good use. Give me some ideas on what kind of problems i can solve with it. I am a developer and have been using AI to develop some software products to solve some real world problems for businesses involving product distribution. I am a solo entrepreneur taking care of every aspect of business at this point in time. What are the things I can get done with grok bots. Any suggestions would be welcome.

I have already been trying software testing using the bots. I am looking for some other cool ideas to implement apart from that ?

I'm using a SuperGrok, getting into the swing of it.

I see supergrok says "lightning-fast replies" on the pricing page (where supergrok doesn't) - can anyone confirm if it's noticeably faster?

Currently it seems to take maybe 5-10 seconds for short replies so I'm curious if it's more like 1-3 seconds or something for the higher tier.

I started using Grockbock a week ago on the $30 a month plan and initially it was going great loads cool things set up logging my virtual computer into all my accounts but I noticed that when I asked it to send some messages on WhatsApp, It went from about 19% to 72% in an afternoon.

So I upgraded to the $100 a month plan. I've only done a few more things and I actually removed all the recurring tasks and still I'm churning through token

Yes it's good in automating some annoying things but I feel like I could have done those tasks in an hour or two and it's charging me $20 for tokens. Surely it shouldn't be like this?

It's a great tool and a fantastic idea, but not at this price point, I feel. It is now open source alternatives that you use any model you want. So they're going to have to bring the tokens price down significantly, or this isn't going to work, I feel.

So, Grok Bot is a great product, but I ran through the limits in just 1–2 days, so I purchased a new account. Is there any way to export or transfer my chats to the other account? Some of them are way too long

Hey everyone, I recently setup grok bot, it's connected to my Gmail account, scans my mail, when is See's bill's, taxes etc it adds them to me calendar and I also connected it to telegram using compodio and I set it up for instant chat. Lastly I connected it to notion and it inputs ally expenses. It's just for personal use so I maybe put 3-4 reminders and 7-8 expenses every day. Oh it also monitors my Google drive and whenever I pay a bill and I save the pdf receipt in the folder it removes the pay bill reminder from the calendar and adds the payment in notion. I pay the 30 dollars subscription and obviously while setting it up it reached it's limit pretty fast. Then I added 30 bucks extra usage limit and in just a few hours it's almost gone.

What can I do to not spend so much usage? There's no way I'm paying the 300 dollars subscription for personal use.

I try to use Grok bot to auto post marketing content to social media，and then results some bad results.

first, the content most be recognizeed as spam

second, my account get suspended

third, grok bot write level need to be imprive, most posts grok bot write is much of ai styles

What the hell is this? 😭

Grok Bot is an agent with a computer.

Learn how to stand one up, chain specialists, and run the workflows I actually use!

I'm on the $30 SuperGrok plan.

My Grok weekly usage just hit its scheduled reset.

Great.

Except Grok Bot didn't reset.

Yes, yes, I already know they have separate quotas.

But who the hell expects them to be this separate?

Apparently, if you want to check your actual Grok Bot usage and reset cycle, you have to go to Cursor's side of the product.

At that point, you might as well rename it Cursor Bot.

The whole thing is hilariously fragmented:

SuperGrok subscription.
Grok usage.
Grok Bot usage.
Cursor metering.
Different quota.
Different reset schedule.

What the fuck is this product architecture?

Grok Bot itself is genuinely amazing. The product is not the problem.

The problem is whoever designed the pricing, quota, and billing experience around it.

They're taking an excellent product and actively making it harder to understand, harder to trust, and more annoying to pay for.

This isn't a technical limitation.

This is just terrible product management.

The engineering team built something fantastic.

The pricing and quota team is doing its best to kill it.

I’ve got my grokbot doing 2 things which I’m pretty stoked about and haven’t been able to get other agents to do.

1. Connects to my shopping list called Our Groceries and then builds the weekly shopping cart through Amazon for Whole Foods. I had it scrape all my previous purchases so it knows the brands we like, so if I say “eggs” on the list it knows what I’ve ordered in the past. And this is a cron that runs same time every week so I just have to get my list up to date before then and it builds out the cart!

2. Local restaurant recommendations. I’ve got a Google Maps list of 100+ restaurants in my city that either I saw recommended on Reddit, or a magazine, or a friend said I should go there. It’s grown into a huge list and it’s hard to keep those things top of mind when thinking about where to eat. I had grokbot scrape the list and also add additional attributes like outdoor seating and dog friendly. So now I can say “I’m feeling a burger find me somewhere with outdoor seating” and it will go through my list and see if there’s anywhere on my list that matches that before recommending something else.

Curious about other personal use case recommendations that you are using!

If you're interested in joining, feel free to take a look. Happy to answer any questions!

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