Happy Halloween, bot baddie. If your Bot keeps making the same mistake over and over, I've got bad news: it's not haunted. We'll get to the fix in the Alpha.
We're keeping up the pace of change we've seen with Grok Bot since it was originally released. Now we've got so many new updates. The last one they pushed onto their X account was on the 27th, 4 days ago.
Looking at Shared Bots on the team side, they have a whole post on how their sales team built theirs. The Vault can sign into various accounts, kind of like its own password manager native to Grok Bot. That came out on the 23rd. That's huge. Deeper integrations into iOS and Android on the 22nd, so just better all around for mobile.
CAN I TALK MY ISH? All this #shipping is reminding me why I love the Grok Bot platform so much. It's because the team is absolutely obsessed, and they are building at a record speed of innovation. They might not have the smartest models in Grok, but now that they let you use Claude and Codex, that seems pretty easily solved.
I'm stoked about some of these releases, and I need to document myself logging into a new account and setting it up, because I'm sure it's changed since they merged the logins between Grok and Cursor. Now there's one unified xAI account, so I might just do that now. Let's try. Let's fuck around and find out.
Updates from since Issue 005 went out (only a few weeks ago…):
Vault (Oct 23) - saved logins, cards and contact info. For your store: I haven't used it much yet, but my understanding is it's a way to store stuff for later without the agent seeing what you're storing, so it never sees your secrets.
Phone apps (Oct 22) - Calendar, Reminders and Contacts on iOS and Android.
1Password (Oct 22) - 1Password for Agents. For your store: 1Password is one of the most popular password apps. I've used it with Grok Bots and it makes it much, much easier to get in and out of the apps and services you use regularly.
Pages (Oct 21) - reports, memos and dashboards the Bot keeps up to date. For your store: this is the one I'd use for morning briefs and a living dashboard, basically what Claude artifacts are. Codex has its own version with Codex sites. Pages is that "living document" for Grok Bots.
Most-requested connectors (Oct 15) - Apple, WhatsApp, Bitwarden, Apple Health and Meta Ads topped the request list.
Outside connectors (Oct 14) - anyone can now submit an MCP connector to the Grok Bot marketplace. More interesting for SaaS and agencies who want a way to work with their Company Brain (for crispy onboarding)
3 Tips & Tricks
01. Set your approval rules in chat
Grok Bot 0.75.8 lets you add auto-review rules right in chat, and you just confirm the card. @jeremycancio's first rule in the replies is the one to steal: "nothing goes out under my name until I tap send." Add yours the next time your Bot does something you'd rather check first.
02. Ask a new template what it's missing
@neil_xbt's read of the templates guide: it carries skills, memories and plugins, but not your passwords, custom code or MCP servers. So make your first message "What can't you do yet because a plugin or connection is missing?" and fix that list before you give it real work.
03. Audit where your usage goes
Back in #003 we paused the routines you no longer need. @BrianRoemmele's Bot Self Improvement template shows which ones cost you. Upload your Grok Bot usage export and it maps your tokens by Bot and by run, flags runs that repeat without adding anything, and suggests fixes like switching hourly checks to on-change triggers. Run it once a week and test the fixes against the next export.
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Just took this screenshot yesterday… I’ve got another 256K dictated words in another (prior) tool, too.
Your boy is out here speaking his dreams into silicon (virtual?) reality.
2 Bot Templates
01. Site Audit
By Shimecki.
Audits your site for SEO, content, speed, accessibility, CRO and schema, then scores every fix P0, P1 or P2 with the URL that proves it. It runs again monthly and shows what changed. It won't start until you give it your real store URL, and it's set never to make up metrics.
02. Customer Proof Desk
By Anoop Baliga.
Paste in call notes, transcripts or customer emails and it turns them into case studies, testimonials and proof points. Quotes stay word for word from what you gave it, and nothing publishes without your yes.
1 Agentic Alpha
Fix the instructions
When a Bot gets something wrong, the easy move is to fix that one result and move on. But a Bot only sometimes saves a correction on its own, so the same mistake can come back next week. Changing what it was told is what makes the fix last.
Lauren Tan, who builds Grok Bot, makes the same point in this write-up of her talk: a correction that stays in the chat is invisible to the next session.
This holds no matter how smart the models get. A smarter Bot still doesn't know your standards until you teach it. Think of it as Kaizen for your Bots, one small fix at a time.
The simplest version is to ask it to remember the rule, like "Always ask before you send an email." Then check what stuck by asking "What do you remember about me?"
I'll typically ask what context or memory it has about a particular project or item, and then see what records it's looking at.
One of the things I had to do is point to a folder on my computer. You need to have the Grok Bot app open on your computer with your computer on. While you're using the app on your phone or your tablet, it can access the files on your computer.
Ask it to retrace its steps. When you're giving it an ask, especially if you use voice mode to dictate a bunch of things, one of the last things that you can do is ask it to repeat back what your ask is and clarify if there are any questions it has before taking action.
What's one mistake your Bot keeps making? Hit reply and tell me.
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Sayonara, and may your Bots stay ghost-free ✌️
Jesse
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