How to share a Grok Bot as a template

A template is how you hand someone your Bot without handing them your accounts. xAI's own guide calls it “the first widely available way to share knowledge work.” Here is how to publish one, and what to clean up first.

Recipe, not meal

The official templates guide uses a cooking analogy that's worth keeping in mind: a template is the recipe, not the meal. The person who adds it gets a new Bot built from your instructions, relevant memories, skills and plugins, and that Bot then becomes its own thing in their account.

Step by step

On desktop, per the docs:

1. Click the Bot's name at the top of the chat to open its details.
2. Choose Share, then Create a copy. The Bot builds a template and posts it in the chat.
3. Choose Publish on the template card, then Copy link.
4. Send the link. The recipient opens a preview on x.ai and can choose Add to Grok Bot.

On iPhone and Android, open the Bot's menu and choose Share as Template.

Nothing goes live when the template is created. The templates guide stresses this: creating it “will not make your bot public”; publishing is a separate step.

What the link exposes

When it builds the template, the Bot tries to leave out memories that are personal or specific to you. The official guide says your bot will “exclude things that are personal or specific to you” by default, and you can open View details to see exactly what was included. Treat that filter as a helper, not a guarantee, and read the details yourself.

What doesn't travel at all:

• Your computer, browser sessions, logins and chat history.
• Secrets. Templates “will not share any personal or private skills, or private information.”
• Custom code: MCP servers, scripts and other non-standard plugins aren't included. The recipient has to set those up.

Public, team-only, or off

If you're on a team, an admin decides whether members can publish templates publicly. Enterprise teams start with public sharing off; other teams start with it allowed (docs). When your team limits it, the app doesn't offer Create a copy, and publishing shows Your team doesn't allow public templates or Template sharing is turned off. A team-only link opens only for members of your team.

Update it, or take it down

After you publish, the same Share menu offers View template details, Update template to push your latest changes to the shared copy, and Delete Template to turn off the link.

Make it easy to install

The hardest part for the person on the other end is everything that didn't travel. The official guide suggests thinking through “exactly what a user would need to replicate your flow,” and telling the Bot to encode setup instructions for complex templates.

Template or shared Bot?

A template gives each person their own copy to customize. A shared Bot is one Bot your whole Cursor team chats with; sharing it doesn't make a copy, and its apps, secrets, skills and files work in every teammate's chat (Shared Bots). Use a template for people outside your team, a shared Bot for one shared job inside it.

Get your Bot found

Once the link is public, you can submit it to GrokBotsHub. We list it with its permission level and check that the link still works, and you can read how ranking works.