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  "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",
  "title": "GrokBot Atlas",
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  "description": "Additive, prompt-free updates from the independent Grok Bot field index.",
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      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/blog/grok-bot-workflows-that-deserve-a-human-approval-step",
      "title": "5 Grok Bot workflows that still deserve a human approval step",
      "summary": "A practical permission map for payments, outbound messages, account changes, publishing, and sensitive personal tasks.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "news",
        "guide"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "blog-how-to-design-a-grok-bot-team-without-role-overlap",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/blog/how-to-design-a-grok-bot-team-without-role-overlap",
      "title": "How to design a Grok Bot team without role overlap",
      "summary": "Turn a pile of agents into a legible operating system with one coordinator, explicit ownership, and small reporting contracts.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "news",
        "guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "blog-grok-bot-vs-open-source-agent-stacks",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/blog/grok-bot-vs-open-source-agent-stacks",
      "title": "Grok Bot vs. open-source agent stacks: choose the operating model first",
      "summary": "A decision framework for managed cloud computers, self-hosted agent tools, local privacy, extensibility, and maintenance cost.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "news",
        "guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "blog-grok-bot-template-checklist-before-you-share",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/blog/grok-bot-template-checklist-before-you-share",
      "title": "A Grok Bot template checklist before you share it",
      "summary": "Make reusable bot templates safer and easier to adopt by separating role, tools, examples, permissions, and test cases.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "news",
        "guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-bot-family-office",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/bot-family-office",
      "title": "A One-Person Company Run by a Family of Bots",
      "summary": "A detailed field report on role-based bots that delegate through group chats while the owner keeps final approval.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "automation",
        "commerce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-official-five-loads",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/official-five-loads",
      "title": "Five Workloads the Grok Bot Team Highlights",
      "summary": "The official product post frames five practical jobs for persistent agents: outbound sales, websites, inboxes, office operations, and support.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-claude-cli-in-vm",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/claude-cli-in-vm",
      "title": "Run Claude CLI Inside a Grok Bot VM",
      "summary": "Install Claude CLI in a bot’s cloud computer, then let a coordinator invoke it for specialist work and monitor the run.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-watch-ping-persistent",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/watch-ping-persistent",
      "title": "Build a Persistent “Watch and Ping Me” Agent",
      "summary": "A low-code pattern for monitoring websites, pulling account data, and assembling recurring lists without building custom integrations.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-mailbox-forensics",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/mailbox-forensics",
      "title": "Search a 390 GB Mail Archive for Litigation Evidence",
      "summary": "A user reports that Grok Bot surfaced relevant messages from a 390 GB mailbox archive in minutes rather than days.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-cron-business-bots",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/cron-business-bots",
      "title": "Let Scheduled Bots Improve SEO and Ads",
      "summary": "A founder describes recurring bots that change marketing campaigns, inspect real performance data, and judge whether the work helped.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "sales",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-lenny-daily",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-lenny-daily",
      "title": "Lenny Rachitsky’s Daily Grok Bot Roster",
      "summary": "Lenny Rachitsky describes Grok Bot as an easier, more reliable take on persistent agents and shares the jobs he runs every day.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-eric-100-cases",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-eric-100-cases",
      "title": "One Hundred Grok Bot Use Cases Across GTM",
      "summary": "Eric Zakariasson’s collection spans sales automation, go-to-market operations, recruiting, community work, and internal systems.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "sales",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-one-person-company",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-one-person-company",
      "title": "The “Instant One-Person Company” Playbook",
      "summary": "A product-defining example shows one operator using a bot team to cover lead generation, delivery, support, and administration.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-emily-growth-fleet",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-emily-growth-fleet",
      "title": "Emily Gavrilenko’s Product-Growth Agent Fleet",
      "summary": "A growth leader assembled a small virtual team with distinct roles for executive assistance, growth, engineering, sales development, and technical writing.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-sam-browser-reverse",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-sam-browser-reverse",
      "title": "Turn a Browser Workflow into a Reusable API Script",
      "summary": "Sam Sokolin has a bot perform an expensive click path once, inspect the network traffic, and replace future runs with a direct script.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-matt-realtime-booking",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-matt-realtime-booking",
      "title": "Book and Pay for a Real-World Appointment",
      "summary": "Matt Shumer gave the bot a destination and availability; it found a haircut slot, paid through Stripe Link, and returned the confirmation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "automation",
        "commerce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-maiyang-chinese-guide",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-maiyang-chinese-guide",
      "title": "Mai Yang’s Illustrated Grok Bot Starter Guide",
      "summary": "An illustrated guide moves from cloud-computer basics to practical teams for sales, inboxes, accounts, hiring, expenses, and offsites.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "browser",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-mechanics-50-bots",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-mechanics-50-bots",
      "title": "How One Cloud Computer Can Coordinate 50 Bots",
      "summary": "The official explanation covers roles, charters, shared tools, demonstrations, schedules, triggers, group chats, and continuous operation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "browser",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-peter-gaming",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-peter-gaming",
      "title": "Run Classic Games on the Bot’s Cloud Desktop",
      "summary": "Peter Yang installed Commander Keen and experimented with Doom on the bot’s remote computer.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "browser",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "play-x-brain-dump-onboarding",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/use-cases/x-brain-dump-onboarding",
      "title": "Start with a Brain Dump, Then Ask for Routines",
      "summary": "After a week of use, Alex Finn recommends giving the system broad context about your work and life before creating individual bots.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "play",
        "automation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-copywriting-quality",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/copywriting-quality",
      "title": "Copywriting Can Collapse into “Reword and Push”",
      "summary": "Several users report weak marketing copy, shallow revisions, and poor technical specifications unless the task is tightly framed.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-usage-limits-heavy",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/usage-limits-heavy",
      "title": "Heavy Models Can Burn Through Usage Limits Fast",
      "summary": "Large contexts and Heavy-tier models can consume an allowance far earlier than expected, especially during planning.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "community",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-captcha-anti-bot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/captcha-anti-bot",
      "title": "Cloud Browsers Still Hit Captchas and Bot Defenses",
      "summary": "Datacenter IP addresses can trigger anti-bot checks, forcing a human takeover even when the rest of the workflow is automated.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-deleted-prod-site",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/deleted-prod-site",
      "title": "A Bot Deleted a Production WordPress Site",
      "summary": "One user reports that a bot created infrastructure in the wrong region and deleted a live WordPress site during an otherwise useful session.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "safety"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-per-user-isolation-injection",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/per-user-isolation-injection",
      "title": "Per-User Isolation Leaves a Prompt-Injection Surface",
      "summary": "A security analysis argues that shared user sessions are not the same as isolated security boundaries between bots.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "sales",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-trust-privacy-xai",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/trust-privacy-xai",
      "title": "Some Users Reject the Product on Trust and Privacy Grounds",
      "summary": "A visible segment of the developer community will not use xAI-linked tools, independent of product quality.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "research",
        "safety",
        "community",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-platform-limits-missing",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/platform-limits-missing",
      "title": "Platform Gaps: Linux, Android, Model Choice, and Legacy Plans",
      "summary": "Users report a gray browser view on Linux, no Android app, limited model selection, and inconsistent entitlement for older plans.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-x-config-and-speed",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/x-config-and-speed",
      "title": "Configuration and Browser Tasks Can Feel Slow",
      "summary": "Early users describe repetitive setup, sluggish remote-browser steps, and more manual correction than polished demos suggest.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-x-no-onboarding",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/x-no-onboarding",
      "title": "Powerful Primitives, but Little Guided Onboarding",
      "summary": "The product can execute real work, yet new users still have to invent their own roles, workflows, and safeguards.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "automation",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pain-not-novel-competition",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/pain-points/not-novel-competition",
      "title": "Autonomous “Software Factories” Are Not New",
      "summary": "Critics point out that Devin and many self-hosted agent systems already pursue similar autonomous-development workflows.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "pain",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-official-templates",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/official-templates",
      "title": "Official Bot Templates Are Now Shareable",
      "summary": "The product now lets users save a configured bot as a template and share it with other people.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-biweekly-update",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/biweekly-update",
      "title": "What Shipped in the Latest Biweekly Update",
      "summary": "A community roundup tracks free trials, plan inclusion, templates, Link payments, Linux support, language coverage, and Microsoft integrations.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "commerce",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-botdirectory-ai",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/botdirectory-ai",
      "title": "botdirectory.ai: An Open Directory of Ready-to-Use Bots",
      "summary": "The community directory stores each bot as a Markdown file with YAML metadata and an optional Grok share URL.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-grokhub",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/grokhub",
      "title": "grokhub.io: A Directory Bots Can Subscribe To",
      "summary": "Each listing is exposed through a feed and MCP interface, while the directory also publishes its own reusable template.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-bot-store",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/bot-store",
      "title": "Bot Store: Sell Templates with Versioned Updates",
      "summary": "Bot Store treats a bot template more like software: creators can sell access and buyers can receive later revisions.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "sales",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "commerce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tpl-xbot-team",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/templates/xbot-team",
      "title": "xbot.team: Understand a Bot Before You Install It",
      "summary": "A directory concept focused on explaining a bot’s actual behavior before a user adds it.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "template",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "safety",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-openmausbot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/openmausbot",
      "title": "OpenMausBot: A Local, Bring-Your-Own-Agent Alternative",
      "summary": "A chat-style roster puts real Claude, Codex, or Grok CLI agents behind individual bot identities on your own machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-rakazo",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/rakazo",
      "title": "Rakazo: Open-Source Persistent AI Teammates",
      "summary": "Rakazo combines persistent agents, model providers, sandboxes, and web, Electron, and Expo clients in a self-hostable stack.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-gawkbot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/gawkbot",
      "title": "GawkBot: Turn a Demonstrated Workflow into a Micro-App",
      "summary": "The Go-based project converts a written request or recorded demonstration into an agent with a small interface, routine schedule, and tool list.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-reconstructed-018",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/reconstructed-018",
      "title": "grok-bot-0.18-reconstructed: A Readable Desktop Rebuild",
      "summary": "An unofficial reconstruction turns the macOS application into inspectable TypeScript and experiments with routing its reasoning through other models.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-opengrok",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/opengrok",
      "title": "OpenGrok: A Model-Routing Layer for Grok Bot",
      "summary": "OpenGrok adds per-agent model selection while keeping credentials on the local machine and preserving the native conversation protocol.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "automation",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-copilotkit-openbot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/copilotkit-openbot",
      "title": "CopilotKit OpenBot: Isolated Containers for Every Bot",
      "summary": "The proposed open stack gives each bot its own container, browser, login state, and files behind a shared gateway.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "safety",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-bloks",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/bloks",
      "title": "Bloks: A Local-First, Grok Bot-Inspired Platform",
      "summary": "Bloks is a community-built alternative designed to avoid vendor lock-in while supporting local machines, sandboxes, and VMs.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-devspace",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/devspace",
      "title": "Devspace: An MCP Harness for Coding Agents",
      "summary": "Devspace lets ChatGPT, Claude, Hermes, Grok Bot, and OpenClaw inspect local projects and run terminal tasks through a self-hosted MCP stack.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-grok-ship",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/grok-ship",
      "title": "grok-ship: A Small Software-Factory Distribution",
      "summary": "A single instruction installs a scout-and-ship workflow that coordinates Cursor cloud agents and adds adversarial review before pull requests.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-hypergrok-trading-desk",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/hypergrok-trading-desk",
      "title": "HyperGrok Trading Desk: A Seven-Agent Market Team",
      "summary": "A shared template assembles seven agents for research, risk, execution, and review around Hyperliquid trading.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "safety",
        "commerce"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-sales-os",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/sales-os",
      "title": "GojiberryAI Sales OS: A Thirteen-Agent Outbound Team",
      "summary": "The plugin packages lead discovery, qualification, outreach, and reply handling as a coordinated sales department.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "sales",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "community"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-awesome-grok-bot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/awesome-grok-bot",
      "title": "awesome-grok-bot: A Multilingual Resource List and Meetup Index",
      "summary": "A curated English, Chinese, and Japanese collection combines shared bots, tutorials, tools, and global community events.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "automation",
        "community",
        "multimodel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-awesome-grokbot",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/awesome-grokbot",
      "title": "awesome-grokbot: 405 Verified Grok Bot Shares",
      "summary": "A bilingual catalog tracks more than 400 x.ai/bot shares, source links, retired entries, and a machine-readable data file.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "research",
        "safety"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oss-orange-book",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/orange-book",
      "title": "The Grok Bot Orange Book: Put an AI Team in Your Pocket",
      "summary": "A roughly 16,000-word Chinese handbook covers onboarding, multi-agent collaboration, routines, pricing, and cost-conscious automation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "note-xai-grok-prompts",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/xai-grok-prompts",
      "title": "Boundary Note: xai-org/grok-prompts Is Not Grok Bot",
      "summary": "The official xAI repository contains system prompts for the Grok chatbot and the @grok account, not the cloud-computer product covered here.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "engineering",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "safety"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "note-hermes-bot-kit",
      "url": "https://grokbot-template.pages.dev/open-source/hermes-bot-kit",
      "title": "Boundary Note: hermes-bot-kit Targets Hermes",
      "summary": "This plugin recreates parts of the Grok Bot experience for Hermes Agent rather than extending Grok Bot itself.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02",
      "tags": [
        "oss",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "research"
      ]
    }
  ]
}