Primary Bot
Your main point of contact: the Bot that checks in with you on its own and coordinates work with your other Bots. Tasks you hand over by tagging @bot on X land with it. A shared Bot can't take the role.
Source: Create and manage Bots
Glossary
Grok Bot terms, in plain English
Every definition links to the page it comes from, read on 2026-10-31. Our own vocabulary is marked as ours.
Approval card
The card a Bot shows before an action that needs you: Allow once, Always allow or Deny. Cards raised by a routine or other background work expire after 30 minutes.
Auto Review
The check that runs before each action a Bot takes. Most actions run on their own; when one needs your OK, the Bot shows an approval card. On by default.
Bot
A durable AI teammate with a name, a job, its own conversation and working context that develops over time. It works on a persistent cloud computer with a browser, filesystem and terminal.
Cloud computer (shared computer)
The persistent computer your Bots work on. It belongs to your account, not to one Bot: files, browser sessions, logins and command-line credentials are shared by all your Bots.
Connected app (connector, plugin)
A structured connection to a service such as Gmail, Notion or Slack. Apps are account-wide, so every Bot you run can use one. “Added” means installed, not signed in.
Custom Rules
Plain-language rules that steer Auto Review: “Allow automatically” or “Ask first”. When both match, Ask first wins. Up to 20 of each, 1,000 characters per rule.
Marketplace
xAI's official gallery of public Bot templates at x.ai/bot/marketplace, grouped by category (Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Design, Personal and more).
Source: Grok Bot Marketplace
On-demand usage / Additional Usage
Usage past the weekly limit. Legacy Cursor plans call it on-demand usage (capped by the On-demand monthly limit); The X Subscription pays it from prepaid top-up credit.
Permission level (Reads, Drafts, Acts)
GrokBotsHub termGrokBotsHub's own summary of the most powerful thing a listed bot's setup lets it do: Reads only, Drafts for your approval, or Acts on its own. Not an xAI setting.
Source: Our permission levels guide
Routine
Tells one Bot when to run a workflow: on a schedule, or when something happens (a Slack message, a GitHub, Linear, Sentry or PagerDuty event, an email, a webhook). A Bot can own up to 50 routines.
Secure Form
The form a Bot shows when it needs a login it doesn't have. The value goes straight into the page; the Bot never sees it.
Source: Get started
Skill
A reusable set of instructions for how to do a task: steps, decision rules, expected output and safety boundaries. Private skills are one library shared by all your Bots.
Teach a task
Record a browser workflow (up to ten minutes, no microphone audio) and the Bot drafts a skill from it. Rolling out gradually, so it may be missing from your account.
Source: Skills and routines
Template
A shareable copy of a Bot's setup (a recipe, not a clone). The person who adds it gets their own Bot; they never get your computer, logins or conversation history.
The X Subscription
One plan covering Grok, Cursor and X. Grok Bot is included on Premium, Super and Ultra; Plus and Free don't include it.
Trigger
The event that starts a routine instead of a clock. Only new activity counts: events from before the trigger existed don't start a run.
Source: Skills and routines
Vault
Grok Bot's store for logins, cards and contact info. A Bot never sees a saved password or card number. Vault covers the whole account: every Bot can use every item.
Source: Vault and secure sign-in
Weekly usage limit
The included usage on your plan. It resets every week. On The X Subscription it is one pool shared by Grok Bot, Cursor and the Grok apps.