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

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Grok Bot Team Bots now have managers who can change a shared Bot's plugins, secrets, skills, files and Slack app, while the owner keeps publishing and deleting. Grok Bot can also search and read public X without an X account. https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes.md

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  1. 0:00Managers
  2. 0:11What a manager can change
  3. 0:23Setup cards
  4. 0:34Secret requests
  5. 0:45Team skills
  6. 0:56Teammates
  7. 1:06Slack
  8. 1:18Three kinds of Bot
  9. 1:30Search and read X
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Managers

Grok

Grok Bot Team Bots can now have managers

1Publish the Team Bot
2Open Managers, under Setup
3Add manager
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Add managers

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.

What a manager can change

Grok

Managers change the setup, and the owner keeps publishing

Manager
ChangesProfile, skills, plugins, secrets, Slack app
Owner only
KeepsPublish, unpublish, delete
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.

Setup cards

Grok

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

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

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.

Secret requests

Grok

A missing key goes to the owner or a manager

1The Bot needs a key
2A secret request lands in the owner's or a manager's chat
3Other teammates hear who adds it
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Secrets

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.

Team skills

Grok

Only the owner or a manager saves a team skill

1A teammate teaches the Bot a process
2The Bot keeps it in its notes with that person
3The owner or a manager can make it a team how-to
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Skills and files

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.

Teammates

Grok

Teammates pin, hide and run their own routines

Teammate
CanPin it, hide it, set up routines
Can'tDelete it, or change its setup
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Use a Team Bot

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.

Slack

Grok

A manager can bring a Team Bot to Slack

Slack app
NeedsThe Bot published first
UsesThe owner's Slack connection
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/team-bots · Add a Team Bot to Slack

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.

Three kinds of Bot

Grok

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

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.

Search and read X

Grok

Bots can search and read public X without an X account

Search postsRead an account's postsQuotes and repostsTrends and news
SpaceXAI · docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps · Search and read X

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.