Template design
A Grok Bot template checklist before you share it
Make reusable bot templates safer and easier to adopt by separating role, tools, examples, permissions, and test cases.
A template is an operating contract
A useful template explains the bot’s job, the inputs it expects, the tools it may use, and the point where it must stop for human review. A clever persona without those constraints is difficult to trust or reproduce.
Write for a user who did not watch you build the workflow. If the template depends on private context or an undocumented habit, state that dependency explicitly.
Ship examples and non-examples
Include two or three representative requests and the output shape you expect. Add non-examples that should be rejected or escalated. This is often more effective than adding another page of abstract instruction.
Do not bundle live secrets, customer data, private links, or personal identifiers. Use placeholders and tell the adopter where each value belongs.
Test the dangerous edge
Before sharing, test ambiguous instructions, hostile page content, missing credentials, timeouts, and attempts to exceed the intended permission scope. The template should fail legibly rather than improvising authority.
Version the template and record what changed. Reusable automation is software, even when most of its interface is natural language.
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Official Bot Templates Are Now Shareable
The product now lets users save a configured bot as a template and share it with other people.