Grok for Developers: Essentials — Coding with Grok in Chat

The developer starting point for Grok: how Grok handles code and where it goes wrong, prompting for code, debugging and code review with uploaded files, repository context with the GitHub connector, and Build mode for fast prototypes. Ends with a fix-and-explain lab on a small, self-contained sample file

What this course covers

The course runs across 6 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

How Grok handles code, and where it goes wrong — What Grok is good at with code (explaining, drafting, spotting bugs, reviewing) and where it fails: it can be confidently wrong, invent APIs or library options, fix only the symptom you described, and it does not run your code for you. You stay responsible for running and testing every change.
Prompting for code — Give Grok the language and runtime, the spec or constraints, a small example, the error message and expected vs actual behaviour, and ask for the smallest change plus a test. Use Search to check current library docs and open the cited sources rather than trusting them blindly.
Debugging and code review with uploaded files — Attach source files, logs or a diff with + in a chat, find a bug with Grok, and run a review that separates real bugs, security problems and behaviour changes from style nits. Never upload real secrets, keys or customer data; strip them first.
Repository context with the GitHub connector — Add the GitHub connector at grok.com/connectors (New Connector → GitHub → sign in) so Grok can use your repositories as context; on Business or Enterprise plans an admin must add it first. Ask about specific files and paths, and check answers against the real code.
Build mode for fast prototypes — Describe a small site, app, game or dashboard in Build mode, iterate with the live preview, and decide what to keep. You can publish to a grok.me link or your own domain or export to GitHub, but treat it as a prototype: review the code and keep real data and secrets out.
Final: fix and explain — Fix a buggy function with Grok, run the fix yourself on sample data, explain the root cause in your own words, and review a teammate's diff with reasons for what you accept and reject.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

Software developers and technical builders. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 90 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Grok track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab, code lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

Grok for Developers: Essentials — Code Review Playbook — A focused playbook for reviewing code with Grok. Learners attach a pull request written by a coding agent to a grok.com chat, ask for severity-ranked, line-referenced findings on correctness, security, risky edits and missing tests, then check each finding against the code instead of trusting it. They leave with a review prompt they can reuse and a short, defensible set of review comments. About 45 minutes including the final.
Grok for Developers: Essentials — Refactoring & Migration Playbook — A focused playbook for safe refactoring and migration with Grok. Learners pin a legacy reminder job's behaviour with characterisation tests, then use a grok.com chat to rename, extract a helper and move off a deprecated Python date function in small steps, checking the tests after each one. They leave with a step-by-step refactor pattern and a migration that changes nothing users see. About 45 minutes including the final.
Grok: Essentials — Research Playbook — A focused playbook for doing research in Grok. Learners run live searches across the web and X with citations, dig into their own files and connected sources, and check every claim - including deciding how much weight an X post deserves - so they leave with a research routine they can trust the same day. About 45 minutes including the final.
Grok for Developers: Essentials — Testing Playbook — A focused playbook for testing with Grok. Learners attach a small library-fee module and its shaky tests to a grok.com chat, use Grok to diagnose a failing test and a date-dependent one, write unit and edge-case tests from the written policy, and break the code on purpose to prove the tests really catch bugs. They leave with a reusable prompt pattern for test work and the habit of checking every test themselves, by running it or by tracing it. About 45 minutes including the final.
Grok for Developers: Essentials — Docs & Onboarding Playbook — A focused playbook for documentation and onboarding with Grok. Learners use a grok.com chat to explain an unfamiliar room-pricing module, catch the false claims in its outdated README, and write a corrected README, doc comments and a handoff note, checking every claim against the code by reading or running it. They leave with a documentation prompt pattern and the habit of verifying before they publish. About 45 minutes including the final.
Grok for Developers Pathway — Grok for developers from coding in chat to Grok Build in the terminal, agentic engineering, and guarded production integrations on the Grok API. Also includes 4 optional playbooks (Testing, Code Review, Refactoring & Migration, Docs & Onboarding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 90 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-GRK-DEV-101.