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What's New in Grok Bot for Developers

A short refresher on the latest Grok Bot connections, engineering routines and Shared Bots updates for developers

What this course covers

The course runs across 7 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.

  • Grok Bot: AI teammates with their own computer — What's different: xAI launched Grok Bot in beta, a separate app for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android where named Bots work on their own cloud computer, sign into your tools, keep going when you close your laptop, and check back with you for approvals. Why it matters for your work: You can hand off multi-step chores like inbox cleanup or website lookups instead of doing them one prompt at a time. Try it (about 2 minutes): Install the Grok Bot app, create your first Bot, and give it one small recurring task, like summarizing your unread email each morning. Needs: the Grok Bot app. No access? Here's what you'd see: Learners can install the Grok Bot beta app on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, or Android to create named Bots.
  • Tag @bot on X to hand posts to Grok Bot — What's different: Learners can now hand an X post to their Bot by tagging @bot on X, which requires a connected X account. Why it matters for your work: This allows users to seamlessly trigger workflows or send content directly from X to Grok Bot without manual copying. Try it (about 2 minutes): Connect your X account to Grok, find a post on X, reply to it tagging @bot, and check your Grok Bot app for the imported post. No access? Here's what you'd see: Learners can connect their X account, reply to an X post tagging @bot, and see the imported post in their Grok Bot app.
  • Email trigger for routines — What's different: Routines can now be triggered by sending an email to the Bot, in addition to Slack, GitHub, and webhooks. Why it matters for your work: You can now automate workflows simply by forwarding or sending an email directly to your Bot, expanding integration possibilities. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open a Bot's details, go to routines, and look for the option to trigger the routine via an incoming email. No access? Here's what you'd see: In a Bot's routines, learners see an option to trigger the routine via incoming email, alongside Slack, GitHub, and webhooks.
  • MCP allowlist for Enterprise admins — What's different: Enterprise admins now have access to an 'MCP allowlist' configuration. Why it matters for your work: Admins can restrict or permit specific Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/tools for security compliance. Try it (about 2 minutes): Log in as an Enterprise administrator, navigate to the admin settings, and look for the MCP allowlist configuration option. Needs: an Enterprise plan. No access? Here's what you'd see: Enterprise administrators see an MCP allowlist configuration option in the admin settings.
  • Team Bots renamed to Shared Bots with new sharing controls — What's different: Team Bots are now called Shared Bots, featuring a new creation flow, collaborator/manager roles, and a 'Browse shared Bots' discovery option. Why it matters for your work: You can now share Bots with specific permissions (Collaborator vs Manager) and easily find them via links or the browser, rather than publishing them globally to the entire team. Try it (about 2 minutes): Click the '+' button, select 'Create a Bot', configure its settings, then click its name and choose 'Share' to see the new access options. No access? Here's what you'd see: Learners see "Shared Bots" instead of "Team Bots," featuring collaborator and manager roles, a "Browse shared Bots" option, and new share options.
  • Also new — - Grok Bot builds slide decks and living reports: Grok Bot can now build slide decks and living Pages like reports and dashboards. - Grok Bot can use your phone's built-in apps: Grok Bot on iOS and Android can now work with built-in phone apps. - Shared Bots: one shared Bot for a whole team: Teams and Enterprise plans can now publish a shared Bot for the whole team. - Grok Bot comes to Enterprise organizations: Grok Bot is now available to Enterprise organizations with admin controls and isolated workspaces. - 'Take over' action renamed to 'Open computer': The action to manually control the cloud computer has been renamed to Open computer. - Shopping results now show as product cards: Shopping results now appear as swipeable product cards with a Buy now button. - Subscription templates find and cancel unused plans: New templates let a Bot watch, find, and cancel subscriptions with your approval. - Pages restricted on Enterprise teams: Pages are not yet available on Enterprise teams during their gradual rollout. - Saved skills are now requested by name instead of using the '/' command: Saved skills are now requested by name in natural language instead of using the slash command. - Slack channel approvals restricted to the requesting user: Only the user who triggered a Bot action in Slack can approve its cards in a thread. - and 3 more: Unattended approval cards expiration extended to 30 minutes; Access Shared Bot settings via Bot name instead of wrench icon; Connect Shop Pay as a payment method in Vault
  • Try one on your own work — Pick the one main change from this course that is most useful to your job. Try it in your own Grok Bot on a real task, then paste or describe what you got. The coach gives short, specific feedback. No access to the app or plan it needs? Describe how you would use it on a real task this week. That counts too. There is no score and no pass or fail: finishing this completes the course.

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

The material is pitched at intermediate level, and takes roughly 20 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 Bot 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. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment, 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 Bot for Developers: Core — Connections, Secrets & Event Routines — Wire Grok Bot into an engineering stack: whose account each app uses, custom MCP servers, secrets, and event routines from GitHub, Slack, Linear, Sentry, PagerDuty and webhooks with narrow matching and safe retries. Write skills that validate their own output, delegate coding to Cloud Agents, build engineering Pages, and build and share a simple engineering Bot through Shared Bots (formerly called Team Bots) with a read-only key.
  • Grok Bot: Core — Skills, Routines & Pages — Turn one-off tasks into reliable, repeatable work. Learners save skills, teach a task when available, turn a tested skill into a routine, publish results as Pages, and build Shared Bots (formerly called Team Bots): a simple one made from a skill that already works and shared with their team. They finish with one tested routine and a small Shared Bot their team can use.
  • What's New in Grok Bot for Everyone — A short refresher on the latest Grok Bot for Everyone updates
  • Grok Bot for Developers: Advanced — Shared Bots for Engineering — Run Shared Bots (formerly called Team Bots) that an engineering org relies on: pick the right jobs, decide between owner-added apps and each person's own accounts, know where each conversation's work runs, and manage team memory, Bot settings and Collaborator and Manager roles. Add Auto-review rules for git, deploys and production dashboards, isolate sensitive workloads, and keep action logs you can audit.
  • Grok Bot: Essentials — Get everyday work done with Grok Bot. Learners set up a focused Bot, write clear requests, attach files, sign in safely, connect apps, handle approvals, and start using one of their team's Shared Bots (formerly called Team Bots) in the app and in Slack. By the end they can take a read-and-prepare task from request to a reviewed, unsent result.

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Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 20 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 what-s-new-in-grok-bot-for-developers-99492f4b.