Cursor Just Unleashed GrokBot (It’s Insane)
What this video is
⚡ a 20-minute video, readable in 60 secondsThe reviewer never lands on a clear buy, wait, or pass verdict for Grok Bot, a new agent platform positioned directly against Claude Co-work and GPT work; the video instead plays as an enthusiastic hands-on walkthrough of its multi-agent team setup. The standout strength he keeps returning to is trigger-based automation, which he says he hasn't seen in Claude, Codex, or any other major agent platform. The clearest drawback he flags is that, unlike Cursor, Grok Bot cannot yet be added into a Slack channel as a bot to message directly.
Verdict: not stated as a clear buy, wait, or pass; the reviewer frames the video as an enthusiastic hands-on demo of the platform rather than reaching a graded call.
Key takeaways
- For: positioned directly against Claude Co-work and GPT work. [00:04]
- Spec: Grok Bot released a new web app and a mobile app. [00:25]
- Spec: a desktop app was also released, which the presenter says came from Cursor. [00:43]
- Spec: the desktop app lets you build a team of agents, including a content agent, a chief of staff agent, and a developer agent. [00:57]
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- Spec: agents sync between the desktop app and an iOS app also called Grok Bot. [00:59]
- Spec: agents can be connected to tools like Slack and Linear directly through conversation, with plugins added via authorization prompts. [02:05]
- Spec: connecting Linear surfaced 53 available tools for the agent. [02:32]
- Spec: the Grok Bot agent was renamed 'EA' (Executive Assistant), described as managing email and calendar, inbox triage, replying, and meeting prep, with focus on sponsorship pitches. [03:58]
- Spec: every agent comes with its own full computer running in the cloud that can be opened and controlled like a normal PC, including internet access. [08:10]
- Spec: the developer agent's description reads 'you build apps,' which is how its personality differs from other agents like the content agent. [06:58]
- Spec: routines can be time-based, like a daily 9:01am routine, or trigger-based via an 'Add trigger' dropdown. [13:54]
- Spec: trigger apps for routines currently include Slack message, Git event, Teams message, Linear issue, Sentry alert, and PagerDuty incident. [16:26]
- Spec: the resulting iOS prototype, called Action Pad, is a voice agent app with a hold-to-talk mic button and a live tool-call trail. [12:48]
- Price: not stated for the product itself; the presenter claims SpaceX bought it for $60 billion, calling it Grok Bot. [17:44]
- Pro: an automation was set up for a 9am morning digest combining Linear, Slack, email, and calendar. [02:59]
- Pro: the EA agent triaged a backlog of sponsorship pitches and set up an automation to redirect them to a specified email address. [03:39]
- Pro: that automation runs weekdays at 9:28am and 2:28pm ET and stays quiet when there is nothing new. [03:52]
- Pro: replies were already sent redirecting several named sponsorship pitches, including Hyper3D Rodin, Actionway, and Predis.ai. [04:02]
- Pro: via iMessage, the EA agent summarized support tickets without including any names or emails when asked. [04:40]
- Pro: a content agent scraped Instagram posts and full video transcripts using a 'scrape creator' skill. [05:10]
- Pro: skills and plugins added to one agent are automatically shared with every other agent on the account. [07:29]
- Pro: the developer agent built a landing page prototype using a pasted screenshot as a style reference, then ran it live on its own cloud computer. [08:48]
- Pro: agent progress can be monitored and the cloud computer fully controlled from the iOS app as well as desktop. [09:34]
- Pro: agents can hand off work to each other, as when the developer agent asked the content agent for Instagram transcripts to co-develop an app idea. [10:53]
- Pro: the content agent replied with three app ideas for the developer agent to consider. [11:53]
- Pro: the developer agent built an Android APK and ran it on a cloud device via a Revyl integration, which logged 8 recorded tap actions with durations. [13:06]
- Con: the command-K files navigation feature does not work yet. [17:47]
- Con: a 'groups' feature for multi-agent group chats is coming soon but not yet enabled for users to create themselves. [18:39]
- Con: a Grok Bot agent confirmed it can join an existing group chat but cannot create a new group chat itself. [18:52]
- Vs: skills versus plugins is described as a similar distinction to Codex. [06:05]
- Vs: unlike Cursor, Grok Bot cannot currently be added into a Slack channel as a bot to message directly. [17:15]
- Vs: the routine trigger system is compared to Zapier, where an agent handles a task automatically when a trigger event fires. [16:41]
- Vs: the app is also compared to Buzz, a Slack competitor created by Jack Dorsey that lets users add their own agents. [19:20]
- Biggest factor: the creator repeatedly highlights trigger-based automation across agents and tools as something not yet seen in Claude, Codex, or any other major agent platform. [13:48]
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PROMPTEA agent persona/description spec
Manages Riley's email and calendar - inbox triage, replies drafts, scheduling, meeting prep, and keeping the day organized. Clear, concise, proactive. Focus on sponsorship email etc.
reconstructed from the agent's on-screen Description field, merging the fuller read at 03:59 with the trailing 'Focus on sponsorship...' line visible at 04:33 shown at 3:59
PROMPTAnonymized support-ticket summary request
Hey, buddy, need you to take another close look at the emails. Can you please just give me a little summary of the support tickets? I just want to go through those. Don't put any names in it or emails what's going on with the support in it. Just give me a summary of tickets for Vibecode and Chorus.
transcribed verbatim from the on-screen EA chat message at 05:05, including its repeated/run-on phrasing as OCR'd shown at 5:05
PROMPTGrok Bot landing-page build prompt
Please build a cool landing page for grokbot (the app i'm controlling nwo) make a prototype and run it in your computer. make it look like this
transcribed from the on-screen Developer-agent chat message at 09:39; 'nwo' is read exactly as OCR'd (likely a scrambled 'now') and left uncorrected shown at 9:39
PROMPTInstagram-transcripts app-build prompt
Hey, buddy, I need you to talk to the content creator agent. I need you to ask him about all the transcripts for Riley Brown that it's pulled, like my content on Instagram. And then I want you to take the transcripts and discuss it a little bit with the content agent and come up with an app idea that I should make. And then I want you to make that app, make it an app.
transcribed fully legible from the on-screen Developer-agent chat message at 11:27 shown at 11:27
How this brief was shaped: Evaluation (review / comparison / unboxing) · confidence Medium
Opening explicitly frames the video as going through every feature of the newly released Grockbot and sharing what the creator likes and dislikes and what it means for business use, which is a verdict-and-pros/cons structure. OCR confirms hands-on use with named agents (content agent, chief of staff, developer agent) and live chat threads rather than a company-issued announcement.
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