Grok Bot templates: what you actually get, and how to vet one

A Grok Bot template is a ready-made Bot you add to your own account from the official Marketplace at x.ai/bot/marketplace or from a share link. Think recipe, not clone: you get the Bot's identity, instructions, skills and routines, but never the creator's computer, logins or chat history. Add one in six steps, check that its skills actually arrived, and vet its routines before they run unattended.

At a glance#

Compare that with Duplicate, which copies a Bot inside your own account: profile, settings, enabled skills, routines and avatar come along, while conversation history, learned memory and chat attachments stay behind.

Where templates live now#

Templates moved out of the app this autumn. Version 0.63.0 (September 29) turned the in-app Marketplace toward plugins, dropping Featured Bots and Bot search. Version 0.67.0 (October 2) renamed it Connect Apps, with templates on the web. Use Connect Apps for plugins, as our plugins and MCP guide explains, and the web Marketplace for Bots.

On October 7, 2026 the Marketplace showed a Featured row (dr eggbot by Lauren Tan, Overheard by Lenny Rachitsky, Tradbot by Claire Vo, Projects Manager by Eric Zakariasson), a From Grok Bot Team row, and category rows for Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Design, Personal, Recruiting & People, Product and Operations. Cards name their creator and carry an Add button; no prices were shown. How Bots get picked for the page is not explained anywhere we checked.

You can also just ask. Since the October 11 changelog entry (0.69.0 to 0.70.2), a Bot can find a template matching your description and link it in chat. That link leads to the same preview and add flow, so vet it the same way. Version 0.77.0 (October 26) added two official templates, Order Concierge (orders, refunds, returns) and Deal Watcher (prices and coupons), both described as never buying without your OK.

Add a template in six steps#

Adding a shared Bot means accepting SpaceXSI's third-party bot terms. They state that other users create these Bots, that SpaceXSI does not verify, endorse or guarantee their function or safety, and that a Bot may read, write and send data through accounts you connect. The copy runs on your shared computer and spends your plan's usage.

1. Open the share link or Marketplace card; the preview opens on x.ai.
2. Choose Add to Grok Bot. The app must be installed to finish.
3. In the app, review included context and integrations, then choose Add Bot.
4. Reinstall and sign in to listed plugins, and set up anything a template cannot carry, such as MCP servers or API keys.
5. Compare its skills under Connect Apps → Yours → Private skills with the preview. Recreate any that are missing.
6. Give it one bounded task and read the result before switching on routines.

Known bugs and workarounds#

Symptom → Fix for the issues Cursor staff have acknowledged on the forum:

• Skills in the preview never arrive → Rebuild them by hand. Reported August 29, confirmed by staff August 31 and still tracked on October 9. On October 10 the reporter counted 30 skills missing across nine Bots, and a fresh test imported the routine but none of seven skills. Preview text cannot be selected, so staff suggest screenshotting each skill, sending the images to the new Bot, asking it to create a skill with exactly that content, then reading the result.
• Can't see the Bot's instructions on desktop → Ask the Bot. Staff said on October 5 and 9 that the redesigned details pane no longer shows instructions. Ask the Bot to describe its job and rules in chat. Version 0.75.2 redesigned the pane again (one column, a clickable profile above Media, Computer and Routines tabs); the changelog does not say whether instructions came back.
• "A team must be selected to share a team template" on a personal plan → Contact support, but expect a product fix. Staff blamed leftover team memberships in September; on October 10 the reporter said support closed the ticket as a product issue and the error remained. Since 0.75.2 the app at least shows why a publish was refused.

Vet a template before you add it#

xAI's own guide says to evaluate templates like skills or software and confirm everything inside is what you expect. This is our checklist version:

• Every skill, routine and integration in View details fits the job the description claims.
• You have read each routine. Routines run on their own, and even a test run can take real external actions.
• You accept that it shares your computer, files and logins, including sessions other Bots signed into. See Is Grok Bot safe?
• It stops before sending, publishing, purchasing or deleting, and you have added your own Ask first rules for those actions. Our permissions guide has a worksheet.
• It never asks for keys or passwords in chat. Secrets belong in a secure secret request or a computer takeover. Since 0.75.2 a Bot will use a password already shared in chat rather than refuse it.
• You have checked Settings → Vault. Cursor's help says saved logins, cards and contact info are available to every Bot, so remove cards first if the new Bot should never buy anything.

Share your own Bot as a template#

A public link opens for anyone who has it; a Team-only link opens only for your team. Enterprise accounts default to Team-only, others to public. Admins can turn off Public template sharing in the Cursor dashboard, and since 0.77.0 can pick public, team-only or no publishing.

The third-party bot terms make you responsible for what you share and tell you to scrub API keys, internal URLs, customer data and personal details first. People who add your Bot may not redistribute it or its configuration without your permission.

1. Strip secrets, internal URLs and customer data from the description, skills and routines.
2. Open Share and choose Create template (xAI's guide shows it as Share as Template in settings).
3. Choose View template details and confirm what was packaged.
4. Pick Public link or Team-only.
5. Choose Copy link and send it. After editing the Bot, use Update template.

Since 0.75.5 (October 23), after an account merge you keep managing the Bots you created and can share them with your team. If you want teammates to work with one live Bot rather than their own copies, publish a Shared Bot instead.

Paste this into a new Bot right after adding a template, before its routines run:

Before doing any other work, describe yourself back to me:

1. Your job in one sentence and the rules you follow.
2. Every skill you have, by name, with a one-line summary.
3. Every routine: its trigger or schedule, what it does, who receives the result.
4. Every external action you could take (send, post, buy, delete) and whether you ask first.
5. Any login, key or saved card you expect to use.

Do not run any routine or take any external action while answering.

Our take#

Templates are the fastest way to a working Bot, but treat each one as software from a stranger with access to everything your other Bots touch. Read the routines, empty the Vault of cards you do not want spent, and run the self-description prompt above before the first scheduled run. A Marketplace card and a link from X deserve exactly the same scrutiny.

Frequently asked questions#

Where is the official Grok Bot Marketplace?#

At x.ai/bot/marketplace. It lists Bot templates by category, each card showing the creator and an Add button. Inside the app, Marketplace stopped showing Featured Bots and Bot search in 0.63.0 (September 29) and was renamed Connect Apps in 0.67.0 (October 2). Connect Apps now lists plugins, and Bot templates live on the web.

Is a template the same as a share link?#

Yes. Sharing a Bot creates a template and gives you a link to it. The link opens a preview on x.ai where others can add their own copy. Marketplace cards and links posted elsewhere lead to the same kind of preview and the same add step under the same third-party bot terms.

Does adding a template give the creator access to my account?#

The docs say adding a shared Bot creates a copy on your account without the creator's computer, logins or history, and they describe no link back to the creator. Your copy runs on your own shared computer with your connected accounts, which is why the third-party bot terms warn it may read, write and send data through them.

Can admins stop team members from publishing public templates?#

Yes. Team admins control Public template sharing on the Grok Bot page of the Cursor dashboard, and Cursor enforces it server side, even for templates already public. Enterprise teams start with it off. Since 0.77.0 (October 26), admins can choose public, team-only or no template publishing at all.

What is Import Bot?#

A Marketplace template by Shub Gaur. Its description says it brings your setup from Claude Cowork, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and Hermes into Grok Bot, leaves the old tools unchanged and scrubs secrets before saving. That is the creator's claim; it is untested here and covered by the same third-party bot terms as any template.