Guide 01 / Adding templates
How to add a
Grok Bot template.
The add flow takes about a minute. The review is the part that matters. Here is the documented path from a public x.ai share link to an independent copy on your account — and what to check before you grant anything.
Five steps · App required · You share the recipe, not the prepared meal- Steps
- 05
- App required
- macOS · Windows · iOS
- You receive
- An independent copy
- Secrets included
- None, ever
Do this first
Before you add anything.
- Confirm it is an official public link on x.ai — paste the link into our inspector first to check the format and whether the page responds. A reachable link is not a security audit.
- Read the listing's access note in the directory: which accounts and tools does this job actually need? Anything beyond that is scope you can refuse.
- Decide which actions should require your approval — sending, publishing, deleting, purchasing, and production changes can all be gated behind a human yes.
- Remember what a template can never carry: no conversation history, no files from the creator's Bot, no signed-in sessions, no API keys, no custom MCP servers.
- Plan to read the copy's live instructions inside Grok Bot before connecting any account. The public preview is a summary; the instructions are the contract.
The documented flow
Five steps, in order.
Template sharing shipped on 28 August 2026: creators publish a Bot from its settings via “Share as template,” which produces the public x.ai/bot link this flow starts from. Every listing in our directory of Grok Bot templates points at one of those official links.
- 01
Open the public share link.
A shareable Grok Bot template lives at a public x.ai/bot link. Open it in any browser — no app or account is needed to look. If someone sent you the link, paste it into our inspector first to confirm the official format and that the page still responds.
- 02
Preview the Bot on x.ai.
The public page shows the Bot's identity, description, skills, and routines. Read all of it. If the description is vague about what the Bot does or what access it wants, that is a reason to pause, not to skim faster.
- 03
Click “Add to Grok Bot”.
Adding requires the Grok Bot app on macOS, Windows, or iOS. The button hands the template to the app, where it is created as a Bot on your account.
- 04
Understand what you now own.
Your copy is independent: it is disconnected from the creator's Bot, and changes never sync in either direction. A template can carry instructions, selected memories, skills, routines, and first-party integrations — never conversation history, the creator's files, signed-in sessions, API keys, or custom MCP servers.
- 05
Review before granting anything.
Inside Grok Bot, read the copy's live instructions, its connected tools, the accounts it asks for, and its routines. Set approval requirements for consequential actions — sending, publishing, deleting, purchasing, production changes — before you connect a single account.
If skills look missing after adding: users on the Cursor forum have reported that a template's preview can show skills while the exported template ships with an empty skills list. If a template you added seems to be missing its skills, re-check with the creator — it may be this bug rather than the listing overstating what it includes.
“Public” and “previewed” do not mean “safe.” Always review a bot's live instructions, connected tools, requested accounts, routines, and approval settings inside Grok Bot before adding it to your working accounts — and treat our link inspector as a reachability check, not an endorsement.