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11 Insane Things Cursor’s NEW GrokBot Can Do

11 Insane Things Cursor’s NEW GrokBot Can Do

Riley Brown37 min2026-08-26 ▶ Watch on YouTube
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GrokBot is a desktop and mobile AI agent platform where users build a team of persistent, named agents, each running on its own cloud computer, to handle ongoing business work like deal monitoring, coding, social analysis, and email cleanup. After a week of daily use, the presenter walks through a dozen practical setups, from a 'Monitor The Situation' bot that checks email and Slack every five minutes to agents that talk to each other and produce weekly recaps. It matters because it shows a working pattern for delegating real, recurring work to a coordinated team of always-on agents rather than one-off prompts.

[00:07] GrokBot is presented as the fastest growing agent tool on the market
Key takeaways
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  • [04:08] The MTS bot's three tracked situations shown are Revolut, new partnership deals, and Agent Native payments
  • [06:56] Tip: connect a developer bot to Cursor since GrokBot is built as a general knowledge-work platform
  • [07:26] Demo: asked the Developer bot to redesign a landing page in xAI Grok's black and white style, specifying Claude Opus 5
  • [10:18] Tip: keep one general-purpose GrokBot pinned at the top of the agent list, used like ChatGPT for quick questions
  • [12:10] Tip: have the agents talk to each other
  • [14:34] After checking in with all other agents, GrokBot compiled a weekly recap plus a 3-item weekend action list
  • [15:30] Tip: spin off a general project bot, in this case a 'Video Editor Bot' to manage onboarding a new hire
  • [19:40] The Twitter Bot analyzed the presenter's last 50 videos over 3 minutes long; the top video, a Grok 4.5 clip, had 344,367 views
  • [23:10] GrokBot routines come in two types: time-based and action/trigger-based
  • [24:29] Trigger sources currently include Slack, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Sentry, and PagerDuty, plus custom webhooks
  • [28:52] After connecting all five of his Gmail accounts, he had AI scan them for subscriptions to cancel, which saved him a lot of money
  • [31:26] Tip: connect GrokBot to Notion using a custom 'Add Context' skill that adds notes without altering the existing outline
  • [35:00] Final tip: remember your agents have their own computer, a virtual macOS desktop running the agent app
Shown on screen — grab and go
PROMPTAsk Grokbot to summarize visible bots' week
hey buddy i need you to do something for me i would like for you to ta[...] agents that are not hidden, just the ones that are visible (like calenda[...], list bot, etc.). i want you to talk to those guys and get a good summa[...] then present to me a summary of what we've done over the last week what projects i should be focused on and what the next thing is that i do that for me
Transcribed from the typed message to Grokbot on screen at 13:05, cross-checked against a partial re-read at 13:45; a few short OCR gaps marked [...]. shown at 13:05
QUOTEGregisenberg's tweet on GrokBot best practices
GrokBot might be the first tool that lets one non-technical person run an entire business with a team of AI agents. My friend Billy runs his whole newsletter business on GrokBot agents, and I think we're about to see 100,000+ businesses like his.

BEST PRACTICES:
1. The agents run on a shared cloud computer, so running your newsletter, your X, and your receipts all in one place creates context bloat and burns tokens fast. One missio[...]
2. Rollout bot: Track when all PRs of a single feature are merged, deployed, approved by stores, and have data flowing.
3. Systems design bot: Ask a bot to compare your desired system with the existing codebase and make action items for the migration.
4. Deduplication bot: I run a bot to compare and triage similar tasks from across slack, bug reports, and socials so there's clear work for agents to do so they aren't colliding.
Merged from the @gregisenberg tweet screenshot shown 00:08-00:10; tip #1's tail is truncated across all reads and marked [...], tips #2-4 fully legible. shown at 0:09
Jump to a moment
0:44GrokBot Basics: Agents, Skills & Plugins3:23Tip 1: The MTS Bot6:54Tip 2: Developer Bot (Connect to Cursor)10:11Tip 3: A General GrokBot (Pinning Agents)12:10Tip 4: Agents Talking to Each Other13:41Group Chats15:29Tip 5: Project-Specific Bots17:47Command K Menu19:36Tip 6: Connecting GrokBot to X/Twitter22:55Tip 7: Trigger-Based Automations (Routines)26:15Tip 8: Plugins & Context28:23Tip 9: Multiple Email Accounts31:26Tip 10: Notion Integration & Custom Skills32:43Tip 11: Your Agent Has a Computer (+ Grill Me Journal)36:07Recap & Resources
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