Built-in X search, reading, and monitoring
Ask any Bot to search X, read posts, or watch a topic on a schedule, with no X connector to set up.
Grok Bot can search, read, and monitor X. The @bot account announced it at 5:40 PM ET on Oct 7 and said it's "available for all users, with no need to set up the X connector."
SpaceXAI suggests three uses: tracking feedback on your product, following a breaking story, and getting a weekly roundup of your industry.
Why it matters#
Until now, X access went through the X connector. Since Aug 29, connecting your X profile created a developer account with "some included credits." Now every Bot can read X without that step, so you can point a Bot at a topic and let it watch.
How to use it#
- In any Bot chat, ask for what you want to find on X, in plain words.
- To keep watching, turn it into a routine. Cursor's routines guide says to tell the Bot what to do and when.
- Open the routine and check that When to run shows the schedule you meant. Choose Test to try it now.
A real prompt, from Lauren Tan, who works on Grok Bot: "look out for interesting things people are doing with Grok Bot on X and slack me a daily digest at 9am. if there's anything relevant, pick the coolest ideas and suggest how I can use it to improve my workflow."
She also suggested a feedback loop: have the Bot monitor X for posts about your product, then send feature requests to your issue tracker and bug reports to a Cursor cloud agent to triage.
Good to know#
- Each routine run spends usage. The routines guide warns that an hourly schedule can use a week of usage in a day.
- SpaceXAI describes search, reading, and monitoring. It hasn't said whether posting from your account still needs the X connector.
- There's no published limit on how many posts a Bot can read.
