Grok Bot Team Bots get managers, and Bots can read X

Grok Bot's Team Bots, the shared Bots a whole team chats with, can now have managers. Once a Team Bot is published, its owner picks teammates in the Managers section, under Setup.

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Grok Bot Team Bots can now have managers

1 Publish the Team Bot

2 Open Managers, under Setup

3 Add manager

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Add managers

A manager can change the Bot's profile, skills, plugins, secrets and Slack app, and every change reaches the whole team. Publishing, unpublishing and deleting the Bot stay with the owner.

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Managers change the setup, and the owner keeps publishing

Manager

Changes Profile, skills, plugins, secrets, Slack app

Owner only

Keeps Publish, unpublish, delete

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Add managers

The Bot's info pane has a Setup section. Its cards for plugins, secrets, skills and files each show what's there, or None. Only the owner and managers can change them.

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A Setup section holds four cards in the Bot's info pane

Plugins Secrets Skills Files

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Set up what the Bot needs

When the Bot needs a key it doesn't have, it sends a secret request in the owner's or a manager's own chat. Any other teammate who needs one hears that the owner or a manager adds it.

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A missing key goes to the owner or a manager

1 The Bot needs a key

2 A secret request lands in the owner's or a manager's chat

3 Other teammates hear who adds it

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Secrets

Team skills are the owner's and managers' to save. A process another teammate teaches the Bot stays in its notes with that person, and the owner or a manager can make it a team how-to.

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Only the owner or a manager saves a team skill

1 A teammate teaches the Bot a process

2 The Bot keeps it in its notes with that person

3 The owner or a manager can make it a team how-to

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Skills and files

Everyone else on the team can pin a Team Bot, hide it from the sidebar and set up their own routines with it. Changing its setup takes the owner making you a manager.

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Teammates pin, hide and run their own routines

Teammate

Can Pin it, hide it, set up routines

Can't Delete it, or change its setup

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Use a Team Bot

The owner adds a Team Bot to Slack, and a manager can now add it too, once the Bot is published. The setup uses the owner's Slack connection, so the owner connects Slack first.

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A manager can bring a Team Bot to Slack

Slack app

Needs The Bot published first

Uses The owner's Slack connection

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Add a Team Bot to Slack

A personal Bot talks only to you. A public template gives each person their own copy. A Team Bot gives everyone their own chat with one Bot, using team memory plus private notes with each person.

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Who talks to a Team Bot, and what it remembers

Personal Bot

Who talks to it

Only you

Memory

Your memory

Public template

Who talks to it

Each person's own copy

Memory

Separate per copy

Team Bot

Who talks to it

Everyone, each in their own chat

Memory

Team memory, plus private notes

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Team Bots, personal Bots, and public templates

Every Bot can now search and read what's public on X, with no X account connected. That access is read-only. For your DMs, bookmarks or home timeline, add the X plugin from Marketplace.

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Bots can search and read public X without an X account

Search posts Read an account's posts Quotes and reposts Trends and news

SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps · Search and read X