Grok Bot now deploys to your whole organization with Jamf, Intune and Ansible

Admins can now push the Grok Bot desktop app to members' devices. Jamf Pro, Kandji or Intune on a Mac, Intune on Windows, and Ansible, Puppet or Chef on Linux.

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Grok Bot now installs with the device tools your IT team already runs

Jamf Pro Kandji Microsoft Intune Configuration Manager Ansible Puppet Chef

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · Push the desktop app

Mac gets a disk image, Windows a Setup installer, and Linux deb, RPM or AppImage. There is no MSI or PKG, so wrap the installer in your tool's own package format.

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One installer per platform, and phones from the app stores

Grok Bot apps

macOS Apple silicon, Intel · .dmg

Windows x64, Arm64 · Setup .exe

Linux x64, Arm64 · .deb, .rpm, AppImage

iPhone App Store · iOS 18 or later

Android Google Play · Android 9 or later

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · What you deploy

On Mac, Windows and AppImage, no policy or setting turns off desktop updates. Linux deb and RPM installs never update themselves, so your package manager decides when they move.

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Mac and Windows installs keep offering updates

Mac, Windows, AppImage

Updates The app offers each new version

Turn off No policy or setting can

Linux .deb and .rpm

Updates Through your package manager

Turn off Hold the package

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · How desktop updates work

A pinned build doesn't last forever. Once it loses support, Update required covers the whole window, even on a held Linux package. Both cutoffs are unpublished, so plan regular updates.

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A build that loses support locks behind Update required

Update required

When Below the minimum version, or past a maximum age

Applies to Every install, held Linux packages too

Limits Set remotely, not published

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · How desktop updates work

Each member's hosted computer runs Linux in the cloud, outside your device management, and its image can't be pinned. Idle computers move to new images in the background.

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Your device management stops at the app, and the hosted computer updates itself

Hosted computer

New image Idle computers rebuilt in the background

Update Bot's Computer The member, from Settings

Recreate VMs Enterprise organization admins

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · Update the hosted computers

Organization admins can now recreate, terminate or delete members' computers through the Organization API. Each team runs one operation at a time, from the API or the dashboard.

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Recreate, terminate or delete members' computers from a script

1 Send a team, its members and an action

2 Poll the operation

3 Read the counts and each member's result

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computers · Run operations through the API

Admins on Teams and Enterprise get Invite Team. Existing Cursor users get a download link by email, new users get a Cursor team invitation, and SCIM teams get only the first option.

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Invite Team brings members in from the Grok Bot page

Invite Team

Existing Cursor users An email with a download link

New users An invitation to your Cursor team

SCIM teams The existing-users option only

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/teams-and-enterprises · Enabling Grok Bot for your team

Route traffic through this computer sends the hosted computer's web traffic out through your desktop, so sites see your desktop's address. If an Enterprise admin blocks it, active routes stop within five minutes.

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Route the hosted computer's web traffic through your desktop

Route traffic through this computer

Sites see Your desktop's IP address

The Bot reaches Networks open to that device

Admin lock Enterprise admins can turn it off

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/settings-and-notifications · Route traffic through this computer

Allow Sudo on Bot Computers lets Bots run commands as root. On Enterprise it starts on, and a change needs a restart. Agent Email gives members a mail address for their Bots, and starts off.

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Two admin switches decide root access and Bot email

Allow Sudo on Bot Computers

Lets Bots Run commands as root

Default On · Enterprise

Agent Email

Lets Bots Read and send mail

Default Off

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/teams-and-enterprises · Bot Capabilities

An unreachable computer now offers Recover computer right in the error. In Settings, Update Bot's Computer keeps your files, while Reset rolls back to your last snapshot and may lose recent changes.

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Update keeps your files, and Reset goes back to a snapshot

Update Bot's Computer

Does Installs the latest software

Your files Stay in place

Reset Bot's Computer

Does Rebuilds from your last snapshot

Your files Recent changes may be lost

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps · Update, recover, or reset the computer

When a Bot reaches a login, choose Take over. Enter the password, passkey, two-factor code or CAPTCHA yourself, then choose I'm done. The iPhone and Android apps can take over too.

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Take over for a password, then hand back with I'm done

1 Take over

2 Enter the password, passkey, code or CAPTCHA

3 I'm done

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/get-started · Sign in to the tools it needs

Pin keeps active Bots at the top of the sidebar, and Hide from sidebar tucks one away without deleting its work. Hidden Bots, at the bottom of the sidebar, brings it back.

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Pin the Bots you use, and hide the rest

Pin Hide from sidebar Hidden Bots Show in sidebar

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/bots · Pin or hide a Bot

Privacy Mode Legacy blocks Grok Bot entirely, so the rollout checklist in Deploy Grok Bot to your organization starts there. Then come network, sign-in, a pilot on a few devices, and the full deploy.

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The rollout checklist is in Deploy Grok Bot to your organization

1 Move off Privacy Mode (Legacy)

2 Clear the network and sign-in

3 Pilot, then deploy

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/deployment · Rollout checklist