Cursor Just Unleashed GrokBot (It’s Insane)
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We have some breaking news in the world
of AI agents. Cursor just released a new
product called Grokbot, and it's aimed
directly at Claude Co-work and GPT work.
It's a new agent platform that feels
like you're messaging a team of AI
agents, and it lets you connect these
agents to all of your different tools,
and it even lets you fully control a
working computer in the cloud. They
released a new web app and a mobile app,
and right now we're about to go through
every single feature in Grokbot, and
I'll share what I like and what I don't
like, and most importantly, what this
means for using agents in your business.
[music] Let's dive in. Okay, so here we
are in the brand new desktop app called
Grokbot, and this is a new platform
released by Cursor, which was acquired
by SpaceX, and Elon Musk decided that
this platform would be called Grokbot.
Not only did they release a brand new
desktop app that allows me to create a
team of agents. a content agent, a chief
of staff agent, a Grokbot agent, and my
developer agent. It also has an iOS app.
All of these are fully in sync. Whenever
I message here stays in sync on the iOS
app, and the iOS app is also called
Grokbot. And one of the first things you
may notice here is that my chief of
staff agent was actually having a
conversation with my content agent. I
can click on this right here, and I can
actually see the full conversation
between the two agents, but I don't want
to get a two ahead of myself. We'll get
here in just a second. Let's start from
the beginning because I want to cover
all of the different features that this
new Grokbot platform has. Okay, so the
first thing that you can do is you can
hit this plus sign, and we can actually
create a new bot. And so when you create
a new bot, it has like a really fun
little animation here. I'll make it a
little bit bigger, and this agent
basically gets created. And then it asks
me, "What do you mainly want me around
for?" Let's just call this guy email and
calendar manager. I also want you
connected to my Slack so you can read
that as well as Linear. And now the
agent says, "On it. I'm pulling up Slack
and Linear." And so now I can actually
just add the Linear plugin. So I can
authorize the Linear plugin just by
clicking this right here and I can
approve it on Linear. And now I can just
hit continue to sign in to my account.
Okay. Now Linear has been added. And so
I can just add plugins through
conversations. And then anytime you add
a plugin, it automatically message the
agent and it just says Linear's
connected. And then it says, "Slack
still needs to sign in." Okay, we'll
authorize Slack and I'll add it to my
agent native account here. And now it
says authorization complete. Now we can
go back to Crock-Bot and it sees that
it's connected. And now what I can do is
yeah, I say like yeah, at 9:00 a.m. give
me morning digest Linear
Slack email
plus calendar and put the main calendar
items first, then sponsorship
emails. And so you can just kind of
create these agents, use conversations
to connect all of your tools, and it can
kind of just do things for you in the
cloud. And then when you ask your agent
to create the automation, it'll actually
show up here as a routine. So you have
your chat and then you have your
routines. And you can see this little
side panel by clicking this button.
And when you click this button, you can
see settings.
You can see the computer, which we'll
get to in just a second. And then you
can also see the routines right here.
Okay. So before we dive into the
computer, I do want to talk about
naming. So, if I click on this, up here
we have name. We'll just call this guy
EA.
A little executive assistant. And I'll
just say executive
assistant in this title section watch
here. If I click off, here a little
executive assistant tag pops up here.
And manages Riley's email and calendar,
inbox triage, replying meeting prep,
focus on sponsorship
stuff in his email,
etc.
And yeah, so we just created an EA
agent. Okay, so now let's go to our iOS
app. You'll notice here that the EA
agent is already alive and well, and
these are perfectly in sync. So, let's
send a message over iMessage. Hey buddy,
I need you to take another close look at
the emails. Um can you please just give
me a little summary of the support
tickets? I I I just want to go through
those for Vibe Code and Chorus. So, I
can fire that prompt in.
And you'll notice here, I love the
little animations like this little
triangle guy, but you'll notice that
they're in perfect sync
both the iOS app and the desktop app.
Okay, so now let's go over to my content
agent. And as you can see here, this
agent is actually scraping uh Instagram
posts. Right now it's scraping mine, and
you can see that it's actually scraped
the full transcript of all of my videos.
And that's thanks to my favorite skill,
which is my scrape creator skill, which
is awesome. So, earlier I showed you
that you could connect like Slack or
Linear or email just by conversating
with your agent, but you can also do
that by clicking on this plugins tab.
And so here we can see all of these
different plugins that you can add
directly into your GrokBot agents. And
there's so many plugins here, and it's
very similar to Codex and Cloud Code.
Here you can see that there's like a
Remotion plugin. We could also, let's
see, like if I wanted to do trading or
crypto stuff, you can add like Revolut.
Um obviously I've already added Vercel,
so this allows me to host any app that I
create or I think I could do Cloudflare
as well. And just like the original
Codex, there's kind of this distinction
between skills and plugins. So, all of
the plugins that you add here, you can
at message them. So, I just added this
Revel plugin um and I do see that
there's an error on this one, but like I
could add mention Gmail
and I could get it to control my email
just like that. But if you add a skill,
it's actually this slash button just
like Codex. And I could say something
like, this is how I get to my scrape
creators skill, which allows me to
scrape from any social media. Okay, so I
think it's important to mention that
every single agent has its own
description. And you can think of the
description at like the name, the title,
and the description. All of this is kind
of like your custom agent prompt. You
can add give it its own like personality
and basically whatever you put here,
this agent will read every time it runs.
So that when this agent runs, it kind of
does and acts like whatever you put here
in the description. And so that's why
these are kind of different. The content
agent has its own description which
describes why it's more like a content
agent. And then my developer agent is
like, you build apps.
And that is what makes these different.
Now, it's important to realize what all
of these agents have in common.
All of these agents share the same
plugins. When you add a plugin to one of
your agents here, all of your agents get
those plugins. The same exact thing
happens with skills. When you add a
skill to one of your agents,
uh all of your agents will get that same
skill. It's stored in the same place.
However, you could put in the
description of your developer agent that
you commonly use these skills, you use
these skills in a certain way. That's
kind of what separates them. But at the
end of the day, they all share the same
plugins and skills.
Okay, so we've talked about plugins and
we also talked about skills. Now, I want
to talk about the computer that comes
with every agent. This right here is a
full-on computer running in the cloud.
And you'll notice here, we can click
open, and then we can just kind of
control it like you we would a computer,
right? We can open up Chrome here, and I
can literally control this, you know,
like it's a computer. And so we can go
to espn.com. It has internet access. We
are remotely controlling a computer.
But me using this computer, that's not
super high definition, is not the main
point of this. The point is that this is
a computer for your agent to use. For
instance, we're in our developer agent,
please build a cool landing page for
Grokbot,
the app I'm controlling now. Make a
prototype
and run it in your computer. And so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to take a
screenshot, so I can just take a
screenshot of the screen here, can copy
this, and I can just paste it in. Make
it look like this. And so I can just
fire in this prompt, and the developer
agent, right? Mind you, this developer
agent is the agent that builds apps, and
it has full control over this computer.
So it can build the app and then run it
on this cloud computer. And keep in mind
that if we go to the iOS app, and
remember, we can go to the home screen,
we can open up GrokBot, and here we can
see that the developer agent is working
on it. And if I click on the computer, I
can actually see and fully control the
computer from my phone as well, which is
pretty mind-blowing. Look at this. It
even screenshots it as it gets created.
So, look at this. It says GrokBot
landing page is live on my computer at
3001.
And so, it took a screenshot of it, but
I can actually just open up the computer
here. And if I go into the browser and
we open up localhost 3001,
here it is running locally on this cloud
computer.
And it is a little slow,
but look, we have GrokBot running on our
computer, which is pretty cool. Okay, so
that is the computer feature. Now, let's
have these agents talk to each other.
So, this is my developer agent, and what
I want to do in my my content creator
agent, uh he's been scraping my um
content recently. And so, I want to
build a new app that would be good for
my audience based on my content. So, I'm
going to have the developer agent talk
to the content agent. And remember, I
can do this directly from my phone as
well. So, I can go to my developer agent
and and I can create a voice message.
Hey buddy, I need you to talk to the
content creator agent. I need you to ask
him about all the transcripts for Riley
Brown, um that it's pulled, like my
content on Instagram. And then I want
you to take the transcripts and discuss
it a little bit with the content agent
and come up with an app idea that I
should make. And then I want you to make
that uh app. Um make it an iOS app. And
so, we just fired off this prompt here.
The the developer agent. And now the
developer agent's going to think. And
now it's going to go ping the content
creator agent. And here it shows
messaged content agent. I asked the
content agent for the transcript dump
themes. I'll come back with an app idea
once they reply then start the iOS
build. So my developer agent is talking
to my content agent and this is just the
iOS view. Let's go over to the actual
app here and I can see that they've
messaged each other and you can actually
like there's like these like meta
conversations and so here the content
agent messaged me and said the developer
pinged me for a content brief to pick an
app idea. I sent three apps. So they're
like messaging me and then also
messaging each other at the same time.
So I can click on this right here and I
can actually just see their full
conversation.
So hey Riley asked me developer to work
with you on this and then I can see the
content agent
response here. Thanks. This is exactly
what I needed and now they're working
together. They're talking about the
pitch. They're literally just having a
conversation with each other which is
just mind-blowing. And one thing you'll
notice that well while they're still
working they're moving. So they're very
static when they're not moving and
you'll notice they animate on the side
panel when they're working even if you
collapse it which I kind of like this
collapsed view right here and you can
kind of hover over them to see who they
are and you can message it while they're
working as well. Update
question mark.
And here you go. Look, it's building
this iOS app
and this is really cool and it's
literally building this iOS app. This is
the app that it's creating. Can you run
this with at Revel? This is like a
little iOS simulator that lets me run it
in the web which is pretty cool. Okay,
so here they've gone through the full
process and they created this iOS app
and then it deployed it on this app
called Revel. And so if I click on this
link it'll take me to the app running in
the cloud. So the app is loading up. I
believe this is an Android app actually.
It's taking a second.
And here we go. So we have this app
called Action Pad, and I can use it
in the cloud. So, this is an Android app
that I created on Grokbot, which is
pretty cool. Okay, so now I want to do
something that I have not seen so far in
Claude or Codex or any other major agent
platform yet, and that is creating
triggers for automations. So, if you
come here um in developer, right? You
can create a routine by saying like,
"Every morning at 9:00 a.m. I want you
to message an app idea right here." And
by talking to the agent, I can create a
routine. And when the agent creates a
routine, it'll show up here on the side.
And remember, by default, this will be
closed when it's open, and then I click
on this right here. Here is morning app
idea. The agent just created it and
added it right [clears throat] here. And
this is like a time-based routine or
automation. But you can actually create
an automation on a trigger. And you can
do this by pressing this plus sign right
here, and you can see when to run uh and
we can add a trigger. So, let's say we
wanted an agent to run
uh every time that there was a Slack
message in a certain channel. So, we can
go to Slack. Let's go to Slack, and um
let's go into the short-form channel.
So, short-form-videos.
All you have to do is type in short-form
-videos any text, and I can add
instructions. I can say, "Please
summarize uh message sent here. This is
an important channel. Any
links should be included as well." So, I
just want to show you that you can
create, and so we can say um short-form
monitor. And I could ask the agent to
set this up for me. I'm just doing it
like this, and now we've created this
right here. So, now we have short-form
monitor.
And so, now if I were to go into Slack,
and I would say, "Hey, I have an idea
for a short-form video about Grok Bot."
And this should automatically trigger
this agent. So, I'll wait here until it
starts working. And you'll notice here,
it is starting to load, and the agent is
moving around, which means it's doing
something. So, you can tell which
routine is working because of this like
little spinny circle, and it should get
back to me with my latest response about
the short-form monitor post in the
short-form channel in Slack. And there
you go. It said, "Short-form videos, you
posted idea for short-form about Grok
Bot." And then here it has some like
recent messages that I posted in the
channel. But the point I'm trying to
make here is yes, you can create
automations at specific times, but you
can also set triggers. And I do notice
that there isn't a ton of triggers. The
trigger apps that you can use is a Slack
message, a Git event, a Teams message, a
Linear issue, a Sentry alert, and a
PagerDuty incident. I think that they're
going to add more. I think that they're
going to add emails and many more in the
near future. And so, this is kind of
like Zapier. You can set any trigger.
When something happens, an agent will
take care of it. So, we've covered a lot
today. You can create agents. They can
communicate with each other. You have
your chats. You have a computer where
each agent has You have routines that
you can set up. You can add plugins and
skills. This seems to be their super
app. So, their AI agent platform, and
and it's for knowledge work. However,
there are some things that they don't
have yet that I do believe that they're
going to have in the near future, and I
want to go over those right now. One
thing that you cannot do with Grok Bot
is you can't add this developer bot or
any of these bots into Slack and message
it like a bot. However, I guarantee you
they're going to add it very soon,
because if you go to Slack right here,
you can actually add cursor as a bot to
your channel, and it's really good. Like
you can just message the cursor bot. It
has this like little animation, and I
guarantee you you're going to be able to
do this with Grokbot, because remember,
this is the next cursor app that they
released. They're just calling it
Grokbot, because SpaceX bought it for
$60 billion. One other thing, if you
press command K, it opens up this like
little menu thing,
and you can go through all your agents
here, and you can very easily find like
settings.
Um I could type in my content agent and
very easily switch. Um and then we see
all the messages. I can search through
all the different messages, all the
agents. I can filter through groups, and
then there's also files. These don't
work yet. So, if you ask your agent to
create files, I haven't gotten it to be
able to show up here yet, and so I think
they're going to add that in the very
near future. Um and here we have
routines. You can see all of your
routines, and here you can see all of
the links that were shared between
agents, or that that the agents shared
in the chat. So, I can open up all of
the recent links. So, this is a pretty
cool way to navigate. But maybe the
coolest feature of all that's coming
very soon is groups. And so, you could
see here, you can actually create a
group chat
with multiple agents. I can tell they're
about to add it. They left a bunch of
clues. If you ask any of the Grokbot
agents, if you say, "Are you able to
create group chats in Grokbot?" It says,
"I can talk in a group chat if I'm
already a member, and I can spin up new
group chat, or I can spin up new agents,
but I don't have a way to create a new
Grok
uh Grokbot group myself." But like they
literally added this group tab, so we're
going going able to create group chats
with these different agents. Now, I have
no idea how useful that's going to be,
but it sounds really fun. And this app
kind of reminds me of like a cloud buzz.
For those of you who saw the buzz video
created by Jack Dorsey, he created a new
Slack competitor/open-source
version of Slack where you can add all
of your own agents. This is kind of like
an easier app to use, except all of it
is done in the cloud and each of these
agents come with this little cloud
computer and it feels like a new way to
kind of collaborate with a bunch of
different agents and I think it's going
to get way cooler when they add more
agents. I'll make a lot more videos on
this tool very soon because I know that
they're going to add a ton of new
features. And thank you guys so much for
watching. Please hit subscribe. Please
hit like. I would love you forever.
Anyway, I'll see you guys later. Peace.
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Grokbot, a new agent platform by Cursor, allows users to create a team of AI agents that can interact with each other and external tools. It includes mobile and desktop versions that stay in sync, individual cloud-based computers for each agent to run tasks like app building, and automation capabilities via routines and triggers similar to Zapier.
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