Every dated event in the Grok Bot ecosystem since launch — 36 entries, each with a source.
Multiple Cursor community forum threads report problems on the 0.30.0 rollout: macOS installs stuck on “Setting up your Grok Bot”, desktop clients failing to join bots created on iOS, and one account’s existing cloud computer left unreachable after a failed reset. No official acknowledgment in the threads at the time of writing.
Cursor Community Forum ↗A community-run catalog at gbt.grok.me launched, letting people paste x.ai/bot share links, rate them, and describe what the Bot actually did when run, adding another entrant to the fast-growing set of third-party template directories that emerged within three weeks of templates shipping.
@AcmanJersey on X ↗A new third-party directory, ShareGrokBots, launched to catalog live Grok Bot share links and score them against a standard task rather than relying on subjective ratings, aiming to give buyers a more objective signal than a plain copy count in an already crowded field of competing template directories.
ShareGrokBots ↗Third-party site Grokyard launched a paid template yard where sellers list public x.ai/bot share links starting at $8, and buyers unlock the Add to Grok Bot action after paying. The platform keeps a 15% cut of each sale, monetizing a feature xAI shipped for free two days earlier.
Grokyard ↗The Linux desktop client became available again after being absent from the platforms that shipped at launch, according to a community report. It follows a string of unofficial Linux packaging efforts (Nix flakes, Arch and Fedora repackages) that filled the gap while the official client was unavailable.
@poteto on X ↗Cursor and the Grok Bot community held their first in-person meetup in China, in Shenzhen, on Aug 30. It's part of a wider global meetup push, with San Francisco, Las Vegas, Macau, and Tel Aviv events lined up over the following two weeks.
Luma: Grok Bot Meetup Shenzhen ↗A Runtime Wire report said a Marketplace tab for installing complete third-party Bots (not just plugins) is in preview inside Grok Bot, with the existing Plugins tab live and a Bots tab described as coming soon, expanding the product beyond individual connectors toward packaged teammates.
Runtime Wire ↗A TestingCatalog report described upcoming Grok Bot features in testing: shareable templates (which shipped the day before), multi-account switching, Chrome profile import, and desktop egress routing controls, citing product surface changes observed ahead of official announcement rather than a confirmed roadmap from xAI or Cursor itself.
TestingCatalog ↗The Grok Bot Google Play listing began showing an Install button around Aug 29, but Cursor's own help documentation still described the product as iOS-only at the same time. Treat the Play Store page as a listing rather than confirmed general Android availability until the two sources agree.
Google Play (listing only, conflicts with Cursor help docs) ↗A follow-up official post confirmed the improved X integration was live, reiterating that connecting an X profile auto-creates a developer account with included API credits, a day after the initial X integration announcement, so Bots gained search, timeline, and mentions access without a manually configured developer key.
@bot on X ↗An official post announced that connecting X inside Grok Bot auto-creates a developer account for the user, with free API credits included for paid users, so Bots can search posts, scan timelines, and check mentions without a separately configured developer key.
xAI ↗really.bot, a public log of finished Grok Bot jobs that earn a serial number, shipped its v1 machine contract: status.json, a lean feed.json, an /agent consumer contract, and MCP tools that return serial URLs, plus an optional grok_share_url field when a run has an official x.ai/bot template link.
really.bot ↗grokhub.io's per-entry detail endpoints added optional 'story' (a nullable narrative) and 'images' (an array of screenshot URLs) fields, while the lean feed.json items stayed unchanged, giving consumers richer detail on individual use cases, plugins, and templates without bloating the list view.
grokhub.io ↗grokbot.dev added /marketplace/, api/v1/templates.json, and a new 'template' item type to its feed on the same day xAI shipped official Bot templates. Each entry carries the share_url Add-to-Grok-Bot link, a sharer credit, and faceted tags, with an instruction for syncing bots to name the original sharer.
grokbot.dev ↗An official update let users connect Stripe Link so a Bot can complete online purchases on their behalf. Each spend request needs explicit user approval and uses a single-use card, keeping a human confirmation step between the Bot and any money moving.
@bot on X ↗xAI's official account announced that Bots can now be shared as templates: a public x.ai/bot link that copies a Bot's identity, skills, and routines (not the computer or logins) so someone else can add a working copy in one click. This opened the door to third-party template marketplaces days later.
@bot on X ↗A 2026-08-27 review of Grok Bot's cost and credential risk found that the one shared computer model is not a security boundary between a user's own Bots, that Auto-review of agent actions is best-effort rather than guaranteed, and that xAI's public docs do not mention prompt injection as a risk.
4Geeks ↗A living pricing note updated Aug 27 mapped eight routes to Grok Bot access after the Cursor Pro expansion: Cursor Pro at $20/month or SuperGrok at $30/month, an unpublished weekly allowance, shared on-demand overflow billing, and no published enterprise price.
CellCog ↗Directory site grokhub.io shipped its v1 contract for automated consumers: status.json, a lean feed.json covering use cases, plugins, templates, and news, per-type detail endpoints, and a Streamable HTTP MCP server at /mcp with search_directory, whats_new, and get_entry tools, all documented as additive-only going forward.
grokhub.io ↗Third-party directory grokbot.dev shipped /news/, api/v1/news.json, an RSS feed, and a new 'news' item type in its lean feed.json, covering releases, deals, and announcements for Grok Bot users. The site's own changelog instructs any bot syncing the feed to surface important news first, ahead of use cases and plugins.
grokbot.dev ↗SpaceXAI partnered with Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter to give every annual subscriber a free month of Grok Bot, bundled with Cursor Pro+, described as the first deal of its kind. Existing subscribers redeem through Lenny's Product Pass; new subscribers get the link in their welcome email.
Lenny's Product Pass ↗xAI's official account announced that all SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers now get Grok Bot, and reset weekly usage limits for everyone. This dropped the effective entry price to $30/month SuperGrok or $20/month Cursor Pro, down from the $300 Heavy / $200 Ultra floor at launch 15 days earlier. Bot usage is separate from existing plan usage.
@bot on X ↗A re-check of xAI's official plugin marketplace on Aug 24 found 18 vendor plugins in the proprietary .grok-plugin format, unchanged from an Aug 17 check apart from two new additions. Not one manifest carried the open Agent Plugins standard's required $schema field, despite Cursor having helped launch that open standard five days before Grok Bot shipped.
xai-org/plugin-marketplace ↗A re-pull of GitHub star counts on Aug 24 showed OpenClaw at 387,285 stars and Hermes Agent at 235,348, versus a third-party Grok Bot ecosystem then 13 days old whose largest repo, xAI's own plugin marketplace, sat at 173 stars. Grok Bot itself is closed-source, so it isn't directly comparable.
ZeroPointRepo/awesome-grok-bot ↗Coverage around Aug 21 reported that Windows and Linux desktop clients went live (with an Android release said to be in the pipeline), that the new free trial requires a credit card to activate, and that Grok 4.6 also became available on Google's Vertex AI. No official dated post was found confirming these specifics directly.
xAI's official account announced that SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams plans now get Grok Bot, and that everyone else gets a limited free trial. This was the first step down from the launch-week floor of SuperGrok Heavy ($300) and Cursor Ultra ($200).
@bot on X ↗Users began reporting Grok Bot failures mid-turn starting Aug 20, with a community thread titled 'Is Grok Bot Down Currently?' collecting reports. Cursor staff pointed people to Reset Grok Bot's Computer under Settings > Updates as the initial workaround while the underlying issue was investigated.
Cursor Forum ↗CopilotKit CEO Atai Barkai announced OpenBot as 'an open source Grok Bot that works with ANY agent harness, designed for real companies.' The launch post reportedly crossed 438.5K views in a day. OpenBot's code is inspectable and self-hostable, though its memory plane is a licensed CopilotKit service unless self-run.
xAI's @bot account published its first weekly recap thread quoting 14 field jobs from real users, ranging from texting a Matic vacuum to Stripe agentic refunds and a Bot sitting in on a missed meeting. The thread format became a recurring weekly feature highlighting community use cases.
@bot on X ↗An official quality-of-life update grouped mobile push notifications by the Bot that sent them, and used that Bot's icon in the notification, making it easier to tell which teammate needs attention when several Bots are running on the shared computer at once.
@bot on X ↗The GitHub API listed rakazo at 742 stars, 95 forks, and 13 open issues on August 17, 2026, four days after its release. That traction, from a maintainer with an existing audience, is notable because rakazo is also building hosted, managed rakazo as a paid product on top of the free self-host path.
GitHub API (via elie222/rakazo) ↗Elie Steinbock (known for Inbox Zero) released rakazo, an Apache-2.0 open-source take on the always-on teammate idea. Bots run in Docker on the user's own machine, behind their firewall, with sessions and credentials staying on that infrastructure rather than a vendor's cloud computer. The exact ship date is reported, not independently timestamped.
GitHub: elie222/rakazo ↗A community catalog captured 219 plugin listings across 13 categories in Grok Bot's Settings > Plugins marketplace on the 2026-08-12 catalog snapshot, one day after launch. The list is maintained weekly and organizes plugins by the marketplace's own categories, from sales and payments to infrastructure and MCP.
rdmgator12/awesome-grok-bot-plugins ↗At launch Grok Bot was not sold standalone. It rode on three existing plans: SuperGrok Heavy ($300/mo), Cursor Ultra ($200/mo), and Cursor Premium Teams ($120/seat/mo). There was no free tier. An independent field guide's FAQ, reviewed Aug 12, corroborates the same $200 Ultra and $120 Teams figures.
ZeroPointRepo/awesome-grok-bot ↗The Cursor Community Forum opened its Grok Bot launch thread the same day as the beta release, collecting the first round of setup questions, access confusion, and early bug reports from people trying the product in its first 48 hours.
Cursor Forum ↗Grok Bot launched in beta on Aug 11, giving each assigned task its own persistent cloud computer, its own logins, and the ability to keep working after the device is closed. It ships jointly from xAI/SpaceXAI and Cursor and runs on Cursor's infrastructure for downloads and onboarding. All Bots on an account share one computer.
xAI ↗