Tips

Tips and tricks

Short tricks from the record. Each one names a problem and how to copy it.

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Confirmed

Cloud Agents your Bot starts can inherit Grok 4.7 Fast

Cursor staff say a Cloud Agents default saved as Grok 4.7 with Fast on applies to agents Grok Bot launches. Here's how to check it and turn Fast off.

CursorLast checked 17 Oct 2026

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Reported

Tip: have your Bot focus Grok Bot after each Mac job

Staff call it the same workaround they recommend for the Mac away drop, just automated, while the underlying behavior is still unfixed.

Grok BotLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

A generic Bot failed reply can mean your trial usage is gone

Staff say Grok Bot still shows Something went wrong instead of a usage notice. Ask your admin before you Reset.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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Reported

Keep the method in a skill, and put run data in a git repo

sughanthans1 keeps calendar, hooks, and post results out of the skill folder so the skill stays reusable.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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Reported

Use Tailscale on the machine when the local helper keeps dropping

gshall's workaround reaches the computer without depending on the Grok Bot window staying connected. Staff called it valid.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work and Codex on Oct 14

Saved settings, scheduled tasks and scripts that pick gpt-5.5 need a new model in the next two days.

OpenAILast checked 12 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Managed Agents web_fetch now refuses URLs the session hasn't seen

If your agent suddenly gets url_not_in_prior_context or url_not_allowed, here is what changed on Oct 7 and how to fix it.

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

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Sonnet 5.5 cache reads now cost half, and Sonnet 4.5 retires Nov 30

Long, repeated prompts on Sonnet 5.5 got cheaper on Oct 7. Anything still on Sonnet 4.5 has seven weeks to move.

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

Reported

Use an email trigger when mobile hides webhook credentials

The phone app still doesn't show a webhook URL or key. BrexitBot's workaround is a mail.grokbot.com email trigger, or a forward into that inbox.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Hand Bot-inbox sends from a routine to the main chat

Scheduled runs can't see SendEmail for mail.grokbot.com. Staff say to draft in the routine, then approve the send in chat.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Sideload Grok Bot 0.70.2 on Linux until apt catches up

Staff posted a direct .deb for the away-fix build. The apt repo does not have it yet.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Make background scripts catch up after the Bot's computer sleeps

Save a last-run time so a missed tick isn't lost, and let a routine restart your scripts after an update, as kevinn from Cursor's forum staff advised.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Search every Bot's messages at once

Press Cmd+K or Ctrl+K and put a keyword in quotes to find a past decision in any Bot's chat, as Colin from Cursor's forum staff explained.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Talk to your Bot in the car over Bluetooth

The Grok app in your car shows an upgrade screen on a Cursor plan. Use voice chat in the Grok Bot phone app through the car's Bluetooth, as staff suggest.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Reported

Put your Bot's email on your own domain

Forward an address like bot@yourdomain.com to your Bot's mail.grokbot.com inbox with Cloudflare Email Routing, as @wiiiimm did.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Use skills and Ask first rules in place of Bot instructions

Desktop no longer has a per-Bot instructions field. Staff say role-named skills and Ask first rules are the closest stand-ins.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Reach Microsoft Teams through a Bot's own account

Staff say a Bot still can't post into Teams as itself. Use a Microsoft 365 user on the Bot's computer.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Have your Bot check Gmail Spam for real mail

Since 0.68.1, a Bot can search your Spam folder and move a message back to the inbox.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Find and edit your Bots' skills on desktop

The redesigned details pane hides skills, but Cmd+Shift+M still opens them under Private skills.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Reported

Have your Bot watch an X thread overnight

Tag @bot with what to rank and when to send it, as Lauren Tan did to get her post's best replies on Slack at 8am.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

A SuperGrok link can't be undone

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Ask your Bot to separate facts from assumptions

Five labeled sections tell you which lines of a Bot's answer to double-check.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Route a team of Bots through one front-door Bot

Josh Kim's three specialist Bots report to one Bot Boss, so updates arrive in one stream.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Reported

Have Dr Eggbot audit your routines for waste

Lauren Tan's template flags unused or expensive routines and can recheck them weekly.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Fix a company Google block by trusting the app named Grok

Your Google admin needs to approve an app called Grok, not Cursor or Grok Bot.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Use fewer Bots in a group chat to spend less

Every Bot reply counts toward usage, so name one owner per step instead of asking the room.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Tell the Bot what each attachment is before it starts

One line per file turns a pile of uploads into a task with a checkable result.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Give your Bot team a daily standup with an ops Bot

Lingxi Li's ops Bot meets each engineer Bot at 5 a.m. so rules don't fade.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Give each project its own channel, roster, and Notion board

Eric Zakariasson's manager Bot opens a channel per project and staffs it from existing Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Get past sites that block your Bot's cloud computer

Route traffic through this computer lets the Bot's browser use your own connection.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Keep routine approvals from expiring while you're away

Turn on notifications and add narrow rules so a routine's approval doesn't lapse after 10 minutes.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Run routines hourly, not every 15 minutes

Cutting a 15 minute routine to hourly drops it from 96 runs a day to 24.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Put hard rules in a Bot's description, not its memory

Rules in the description stay put, while memory is for preferences, Cursor's docs say.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Turn a finished job into a skill all your Bots can use

One sentence after a good run saves the method as a skill every Bot can reuse.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Connect a second Notion workspace and pick it by label

Some plugins hold two accounts you choose by name in chat. Gmail still holds one.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Sign your Bot in to Okta and other SSO apps

Laptop passkeys don't reach the Bot's computer, so you take over for the sign-in step.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Show a Bot a browser workflow once with Teach a task

Record up to ten minutes of clicks and the Bot drafts a skill you can edit.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Test a new routine instead of waiting for its first run

Press Test to see a new routine's output now, not at tomorrow's first scheduled run.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Start a routine from any app with a webhook

Any system that can send an HTTP POST can start a Bot's routine, and its JSON body reaches the Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Get a daily Slack digest of Grok Bot ideas from X

Lauren Tan's one-line prompt pairs Grok Bot's new X search with a 9am Slack message.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Turn the people you follow on X into a Notion CRM

Matt Palmer built one on his phone in 10 to 15 minutes from public profiles.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Confirmed

What counts against your weekly usage

A Cursor staff answer says the weekly pool is cost-based, and Bot-launched cloud agents bill to your Cursor plan.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Sep 2026

Cloud Agents your Bot starts can inherit Grok 4.7 Fast

Tip: have your Bot focus Grok Bot after each Mac job

A generic Bot failed reply can mean your trial usage is gone

Keep the method in a skill, and put run data in a git repo

Use Tailscale on the machine when the local helper keeps dropping

GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work and Codex on Oct 14

Managed Agents web_fetch now refuses URLs the session hasn't seen

Sonnet 5.5 cache reads now cost half, and Sonnet 4.5 retires Nov 30

Use an email trigger when mobile hides webhook credentials

Hand Bot-inbox sends from a routine to the main chat

Sideload Grok Bot 0.70.2 on Linux until apt catches up

Make background scripts catch up after the Bot's computer sleeps

Search every Bot's messages at once

Talk to your Bot in the car over Bluetooth

Put your Bot's email on your own domain

Use skills and Ask first rules in place of Bot instructions

Reach Microsoft Teams through a Bot's own account

Have your Bot check Gmail Spam for real mail

Find and edit your Bots' skills on desktop

Have your Bot watch an X thread overnight

Your Bots share one computer

A SuperGrok link can't be undone

Ask your Bot to separate facts from assumptions

Route a team of Bots through one front-door Bot

Have Dr Eggbot audit your routines for waste

Fix a company Google block by trusting the app named Grok

Use fewer Bots in a group chat to spend less

Tell the Bot what each attachment is before it starts

Give your Bot team a daily standup with an ops Bot

Give each project its own channel, roster, and Notion board

Get past sites that block your Bot's cloud computer

Keep routine approvals from expiring while you're away

Run routines hourly, not every 15 minutes

Put hard rules in a Bot's description, not its memory

Turn a finished job into a skill all your Bots can use

Connect a second Notion workspace and pick it by label

Sign your Bot in to Okta and other SSO apps

Show a Bot a browser workflow once with Teach a task

Test a new routine instead of waiting for its first run

Start a routine from any app with a webhook

Get a daily Slack digest of Grok Bot ideas from X

Turn the people you follow on X into a Notion CRM

What counts against your weekly usage