Grok Bot is the best AI agent ever. Here's how to set it up transcript

Grok Bot is the absolute best AI agent out there right now. If used correctly, you will have an entire fleet of AI agents working for you 24/7 365. In this video, I'm going to show you how to set it up so you get the absolute most productivity from this incredible AI agent. If you stick with me until the end of the video, you will have an army of AI agents taking care of your entire life for you all around the clock.

Now, let's lock in and get into it. We're going to cover everything in this video. We're going to cover setting it up, setting up your first bots, first use cases, how I'm using it, should you rip out Hermes agent or open claw or not. But first, I just want to give you a quick update on why this is such an incredible AI agent. Feel free to skip around down below if you want to get the specific parts of the video. I've been using Grok Bot literally non-stop for the past week now, and I just can't get enough of it.

Every day I discover new things, new ways to use it, better ways to automate my life. And if this is your first Grok Bot video you're watching, this is what it looks like, by the way. It's basically like this kind of iMessage format where you have a list of bots over on the left-hand side. These are completely custom bots. You can name them, give them whatever picture you want, give them a title, description, and they all work together as a team.

They communicate with each other, they message each other, they have their own tools. Each one has their own computer. So, if you go to any of these agents, you can actually see the computer they can work on. These are fully working computers. You can open up a browser, use them any way you want. Each bot you create has its own computer that lives in the cloud. It doesn't need to live on your computer, although it can control your computer if you'd like.

It's just a really, really amazing, simple experience. And because of this simple experience, I'm able to get so much more productivity done. But I'll go over this in a sec. I'll go over how to set up each of these bots, what you should name them, what should they do, what role should they be, what use cases you should do. We'll go over that in a second, but here's the reason why it's so good. It is by far the best out of the box experience for an AI agent ever.

You literally just open it up, you download it, you install it, you have your first bot, and you just get to work. You don't have to choose models, you don't have to choose anything. It just out of the box works. And I think for a majority of people out there, this is the ideal experience. This is how AI agents should work. You shouldn't need to configure a hundred different things, give it a hundred different permissions, choose a different model for every single thing it does, choose a hundred different tools.

It should just work. Grok Bot is the only AI agent I've used that just straight up works. It has extremely opinionated workflows, more so than basically any other AI tool I've used in the world. What does that mean, extremely opinionated workflows? Basically, it's gotten rid of most of the customization that every other AI tool gives you. For instance, with Hermes, you can choose whatever model you want. You can choose if it works in the cloud or if it works locally.

You can choose if it uses sub-agents. You can choose the thinking level. You can choose the context window. You write everything you do as a hundred different choices you can make on how it does it. Not with Grok Bot. With Grok Bot, it has an opinion on how you should do things. It doesn't let you edit all those things. It decides what's the best way to do things and does it that way. I think this is a supremely better way to use AI tools. 95% of people that use AI tools don't want to think about which model and context window and thinking level to do absolutely everything they do.

They just want to give it a task and then it does the task the best way. That's how Grok Bot works. It's opinionated about everything. Every other AI tool, oh, should I do this in the cloud? Should I do it locally? Should I do it in the terminal? Should I do it in the desktop app? Grok Bot just decides no, we are going to do everything inside this virtual machine. Everything these bots do will be on their own computer.

And that kind of opinionated workflow makes using Grok Bot so much simpler. It's cloud agent first. Again, as I said, everything happens in the cloud computer. I'm going to be honest, at first I wasn't a huge fan going into this. I just want all the work done on my computer. Why do I want everything done on the cloud? That feels like there's like separation between me and what the bots are doing. But after using Grok Bot for the last week, and after all the work getting done in the cloud, I love it.

I'm cloud pilled. There's this natural security separation. There's this natural scoping that happens when everything happens in the cloud. I don't have to worry about my bots having access to accounts they shouldn't have access to. If I want a bot to manage a certain account, I just go on to their virtual computer and log in for them. I don't have to worry about them getting access to the wrong things. So, I'm 100% cloud pilled now.

Zero config, as I said, you never decide which model to use, you never decide reasoning levels, none of that. Hermes, you have 100 drop downs for every single thing you do. With with Codex, everything has 100 different drop downs to configure how to do things. None of that exists here. It's multi-agent first. Again, I didn't know I needed this, but after using it, now I know I need it. By default, every agent messages the other agent when it has work to do.

What I mean by that is, if I'm talking to my building agent, my coding agent, and I'm talking about, "Oh, can you code this thing that I tweeted about the other day?" It'll be, "Okay, yeah, let me check in with your content agent and see what you tweeted about." Right? It's by default thinks, "Okay, who can I talk to to get the best context from them?" And so, you'll just be using your bots, and you'll see, "Oh, this bot messages bot.

This bot messages this bot." And they all talk to each other just kind of by default, which is really amazing. This is like a thing you have to turn on with your other agents. With Grok Bot, it's just default. Really, at the end of the day, why it's so great is it just works with very little setup, with very little config, it just works, and that's what makes Grok Bot so good. All right, so let's get into setting it up.

So, we're going to cover first things you should do in Grok Bot. We're going to cover which bots you should set up. We'll cover a couple different use cases. I'll cover everything I'm doing inside of my Grok Bot just maybe as a little inspiration for you. Then we'll cover, should you rip out Hermes, what should you leave for Hermes, what should you leave for Open Claw, how do those two live together? Let's get straight into setup here.

So, when you start your Grok Bot experience, you will have one bot. I recommend making this your CEO, your chief of staff. You right-click it, you pin it to the top so it's always at the top. Then I would go into edit profile, and I would give it the title Chief of Staff, CEO, whatever you want. Here's why you want like a CEO Chief of Staff bot, because makes the entire Grok Bot experience far simpler. You're going to end up as you go adding more and more bots on your left-hand side here, right?

And there's nothing wrong with that. You're allowed to have I've seen people like literally like a hundred bots. You're allowed to have a lot of bots. There's nothing wrong with that. But it might get annoying if you have to scroll through hundreds of bots and choose which one to talk to. That's why you want a CEO bot. Because the agent-to-agent communication between the different agents is so good, you can just rely on talking to just one bot and allowing them to distribute the work, to delegate the work.

It'll figure out which bots have the right tools, the right plugins, the right context, the right roles, and then delegate that work to the correct bots. So, yeah, sometimes I still do talk directly to some of my other bots, but most of the time I just go to Slate and I say, "Hey, here's what I want to get done. Determine who should be doing this work." And like, "Oh, that's coding work. I'll give it to Build. Oh, that's this work.

Oh, that's Oh, you're sending an email. I'm going to give that to Cindy." And it just makes it much easier for you to work with. Also, by the way, a majority of people I see using Grok Bot just like make the names of each of their bot like content, email, coding, right? That's like the name of all their bots. I highly recommend against that. I've been saying this for a long time. I think fun should be like a big part of using AI.

Like, I think you should be having fun when using AI. It'll make you use it more. It'll help you be more productive. It'll just give you more joy as you use these tools. I find it a lot more fun when you give your bots like real names. Now, there's a couple exceptions here. Last 30 days is a skill for my friend Matt Van Horn. We'll talk about that in a second. That just That set the name by itself. Build, okay, that's not exactly a human name, but I'm going to change that soon.

But, everything else is real names. It's a lot more fun when you're talking your bots, and it feels like you're talking to a human being. So, as you set up these bots, I'd recommend giving them like real human names. It's just going to be a lot more fun. You're going to enjoy the process. So, when you're setting up your CEO bot, give it whatever name you want. The title is what shows up next in the name. So, that's it's going to allow you to give it like human names, and then you can look at the title to see what it is.

If you name your bot like coder, it's just boring. But, if you give it a real name, and then you make the title like your CTO, then you can know what it is very easily by looking at your side here. Then, the description is basically the context that gets sent with every prompt, right? This is like the system prompt to the bot. You can start off with like a basic description of CEO for whoever you are. I'm going to go in a second and show you the easiest way to set up these descriptions, the bots, and all that.

But, just want to make sure your first bot you have you pin it to the top, give it a nice name, one you won't mind seeing over and over again. Don't name it after your ex-boyfriend or your ex-girlfriend, and then title it your chief of staff. Once that's set up, we're going to go into a world-famous process I invented and talk about all the time, which is the brain dump to reverse prompt process. So, this is the first thing I do with every single AI tool I get my hands on, every single AI agent I set up, the brain dump to reverse prompt.

This makes it so you don't have to think about setup. The AI does all of the thinking and setting up for you. So, step one, brain dump, you tell the agent all about yourself. We're going to go into all our passions, goals, ambitions, what we want to get rid of in our lives, what we want to do more of in our lives. You just brain dump it all in. Right after this, we're going to do the reverse prompt, which is, "Hey, what can you do for me?

How would you set yourself up? What bots would you create? What routines would you create? Basically, say, based on everything you know about me, what's the best way you can help me out?" So, for the first, put in your brain dump, "I'm Alex Finn. I'm the founder and CEO of Creator Buddy and Henry Intelligent Machines. I'm an entrepreneur and content creator. I have a YouTube channel and X account that talks about AI.

I also have the Vibe Coding Academy, the number one AI community on the internet. By the way, join that. Full boot camp on Grok Bot coming up. Join, be a part of that. You'll learn a ton. Link down below. You hit enter on that, your new CEO is going to learn all about you. Then you do the reverse prompt I talked about. "Based on what you know about me, how would you set up Grok Bot? Which bots should we set up? What should be their roles, responsibilities, and routines?

How can we maximize our productivity as much as possible?" Then you hit enter on that, and it's going to recommend a bunch of bots to set up. The glorious thing about Grok Bot is it can control itself. So, you can say, "That's great, set all those up for me, and then your CEO bot will go and actually create the bots, give the names, give the descriptions, the titles, and all that, and you'll be good to go. That will give you a base of where to start with.

There are many other things you want to do here. So, I'm about to go through the plugins, the tools you need, we'll go through routines a little bit, and then I'll show you everything I'm doing so you can get inspired by some of these use cases and set them up for yourself. This plugin section in the bottom left here, this is basically like your MCPs, your tools, all that. They just put them all in one place, which is really, really smart.

Again, simplification, just making things work out of the box. There's some basic ones you want to set up, kind of self-explanatory, Gmail and Google Calendar. I'd also highly recommend setting up X so you can pull posts very, very easily from X. It is great with social media content. But, here's the one I've actually liked the most, and this is one I highly recommend you set up yourself, and that is Agent Mail. We are not sponsored by Agent Mail.

I just discovered them like 3 days ago, but it has made my you do the same thing here. Set up Agent Mail, it's completely free. You get like three free inboxes with the free tier. But, here's how I'd use it. Basically, what Agent Mail does is give your AI agents their own email address, like their own inbox, their own email address, everything really, really easily. It's way better than setting up Gmail, cuz when you set up new Gmail accounts, there's so much security and backup and and all this like complexity.

Agent Mail, you literally just sign up, and like 10 seconds, you have a an inbox for all your agents. But, we're going to use this inbox that you create with Agent Mail for all your agents so that when you invite them to your different accounts, they can just have their own account. You don't need to share your own accounts with them. So, for instance, Dusty is my community manager for the Vibe Coding Academy. Dusty answers people's posts, helps them out with technical questions, sends them DMs when they have questions, gives them recommendations for things to build, does a whole lot of amazing things.

But, I don't have Dusty logged into my admin account in the Vibe Coding Academy in school. I invited Dusty to his own account. So, as you can see here, this is Dusty's computer. Inside of the computer, I have invited Dusty, his Agent Mail email, to my community, and I made him a moderator. Now, he can do anything in my community he wants through his own computer. So, I don't give the bots my accounts, I don't give the bots access to anything.

Everything is done through their own email address. You just invite them to your team on whatever apps you're using, and then you give them whatever permissions they need. This is a way more secure way of interacting with your bots, giving them accounts, things like that. It keeps things separated, and using Agent Mail made it like a hundred times easier. Again, we're not sponsored. I've never talked to anyone from Agent Mail in my entire life.

I just discovered them over the weekend. It just made working with my bots so much easier cuz they have now their own accounts. I can just say, "Hey, I invited you to my community through your Agent Mail account. Go accept it, and now you're a moderator, and go do things in there." And it just works, and it does it. So, Agent Mail, very important plugin everyone should be installing. If you do any sort of coding work, which I assume you do if you're watching this channel, Vercel plugin's a must-have, makes it super easy for your bots to push code to Vercel, update your projects, things like that.

So, also add Vercel as a plugin right here, too. One really cool thing about plugins as well, and the way Waking Rock Bot handles things, is plugins are basically everything, right? As I said earlier, they're MCPs, they're also skills. So, I install skills, and they go into your plugins as well. So, this is a really cool way to manage all your skills, MCPs, plugins, everything in one place. I really recommend the last 30-day skill.

This is made by my friend Matt Van Horn. It is like the best researching skill out there. I'll leave a link to it down below. Basically, the way it works is you can give a topic or a subject and it uses like the API for every single social media site on planet Earth. It like reverse engineered all the APIs and gives you a rundown of what people are saying, how they're using it, the latest news, all of that. And it's like the best deep research when it comes to trends I've ever done.

So, last 30-day skill, get that installed as well. It just makes like the research from your agent so much better. I'm having a research cursor origin now, which is Cursor's GitHub competitor. If you want a video on that, let me know down below if you're interested. Also, let me know down below what parts of Grokbot you're really interested in. I'll do like deep dive videos. Do you guys want like a super duper use case video?

I'll do that next if you want. Let me know down below. Also, leave a like, subscribe, and turn on notifications if you learned anything at all so far. All I do is make amazing videos about AI. Join the Finn Fam. Hit subscribe down below. Tons of amazing videos coming out very, very soon. So, we talked about initial setup, reverse prompting, brain dumping. We talked about the skills and plugins you need installed. What I'm going to do now is I'll go through my use cases.

I'll go through my bots right here. You can go ahead and steal any my use cases I'm doing or maybe just inspires you on different things you can be doing with Grokbot as well. So, the first bot I use a ton is Build. Build is like my network administrator/coder. Basically, does all my technical work for me. If you're anything like me, you have a bunch of different devices. Maybe you have your iPhone, your iPad, you have a computer, maybe a Mac Mini, maybe you have other computers on top of that.

Build is my network administrator. I gave it access to my Tailscale network. All you need to do is say, "Hey, my network's on Tailscale. Please access it." If you have multiple computers, highly recommend setting up Tailscale as well. Basically, lets your AI agents go across all your devices and do whatever it needs across them. But, for instance, I had build my technical bot go last night install Qwen 3827B on my 5090 computer.

Then, it built a game for me right here on my Mac Studio using that model that was running locally on my 5090. So, it can go across any of my devices, manage any of them, load models up, build apps, do any sort of coding. It's hooked into Vercel, so it can see all my code bases, all my projects I'm working on. I have a like a personal operating system I maintain. I needed a little fix in it today. I went to Bill. I said, "Hey, in my personal operating system, can you edit this?" It's basically like my CTO.

Anytime I need to do any technical work at all, I go to Bill, and it works really well. The reason why like this is better than having like one mono agent that just handles everything is Bill just has context just around my technical work, just around my computers, how things are set up in my projects. That's it. Like, the description has just describes my projects and computers. So, when we give it prompts and we tell it to do things, it only has to pull from a very small description, from a very small context.

When you have one agent doing everything, doing your programming, your content, this and that, its skills, its description, its system prompt is massive. And the bigger the system prompt gets for an agent, the slower it becomes, the more expensive it becomes, and the stupider it becomes. This is the beauty of the architecture of Grok Bot is all your skills, all your description system prompts are split up nicely between bots.

So, when you message the right bot, it's quick, it's cheap, it's easy because it just knows what it needs to know. Just the system prompt it needs to know, just the role it needs to know, the tools it needs to know. That's it, nothing else. That's why this architecture of Grok Bot is so great. Then we have Barry. Barry is my content engine. Barry keeps me up-to-date on trends, breaking AI news. It's always watching X for me, looking for breaking news and things like that.

Barry has access to X API. Barry does a few things for me. One is it helps me write all my newsletters. Newsletters take a long time to write. Barry helps me write them. It takes my posts, my YouTube videos, repurposes them into newsletters for me. It also keeps an eye on any AI major products, right? So, this is another routine here. We didn't really cover this too much. Routines are basically just your cron jobs. You can reverse prompt your routines as well.

Go to Agent, "Hey, what are the best routines we can set up?" It'll set up the routines as well. Every 30 minutes from 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Barry goes and checks the SpaceX Twitter account. It checks Anthropic, it checks OpenAI, and it sees if they made any new major releases recently, and then lets me know about it, which is amazing. As you can see, SpaceX AI just shipped a warp connector inside Grok. Live now. Boom, I get that breaking news the moment it happens.

So, even if you're not into content, I still recommend having a Barry of your own that just keeps an eye on X and lets you know the moment new things happen. Then we have Dusty, who we talked about a little earlier. Dusty is my vibe coding academy moderator. Anytime someone posts a technical question that'd be appropriate for an AI to answer, Dusty answers it. People aren't as engaged after a few days after they join, Dusty will message them and say, "Hey, here's a few ideas based on my research about you of things you can build." And Dusty just keeps people engaged, keeps things moving, posts new AI news in the community every day.

It just takes so much work off my plate. And because I invited Dusty through that Agent Mail account, it's a moderator. It can do whatever it wants. It doesn't have admin access cuz it's not using my account, but Dusty has his own account. If you need any sort of community management, Grockbot is like the perfect candidate for that. Cindy is my revenue ops. Cindy's basic job is monitoring my email and finding sponsorship opportunities and then replying to people.

My number one pet peeve in life, I don't know what it is. I don't know if there's something wrong with me. I absolutely hate email. I hate email. When I get a pop-up on my phone there's an email for me, I get like anxious. Like I hate it. I hate getting emails. I hate reading emails. I hate replying to emails. The downside of this is I don't get many sponsorships because that. I get hundreds of emails a day from companies trying to sponsor my videos.

I don't reply to any of them just cuz I hate email so much. Cindy does that for me. So Cindy's hooked into my business account. Cindy goes through the hundreds of emails I get a day, researches who's emailing me, if they're legit, if they're just a scam. By the way, if you get into YouTube making videos, you're going to get 40,000 scam emails a day. Be careful out there. But Cindy researches who's a scammer, who's real, and at the end of the day gives me a spreadsheet of the legit opportunities that might be real sponsorship opportunities.

So Cindy is amazing. If you're anything like me, you hate email, set up a bot to monitor whatever email account's important to you when it comes to business, and alert you when important business emails come in. Get yourself a Cindy. And then I have Reed. Reed is my last bot right now. Reed is my experimenter. I have Reed go and experiment on the internet all day. Like this is going to sound a little strange, but I have Reed go and run experiments, finding what people are saying online, build products based on what they're saying, post those products online to see if people click it, use it, see where there's demand.

I basically have Reed go out finding demands, running experiments, seeing what people are into on the internet. Reed's kind of like my go-to guy for just finding business opportunities online. Slate manages Reed, so I don't go to Reed and say, "Hey, do this, do that." I just tell Slate, "Hey, have Reed try different things out and see if there's different business opportunities online." Then Slate just watches Reed do all those things all day.

So, he's kind of my experimenter. These are my main use cases right now. Based on those bots I showed you, I can manage like 90% of my business. I'm coming up with new bots all the time. So, if you stick with the channel, you subscribe down below, I'm this is the first of many Grok bot videos I'm going to do. So, you'll see how my setup evolves over time. So, I'm going to be adding way more bots to this. Hermes versus Grok bot, which should you use, which should you rip out?

These are two different agents. It's not one or the other. It isn't Hermes this or Grok bot that. Hermes is a completely customizable agent running on any model. I can do anything you want. I load up Qwen 38 on my 5090 computer, it's now powering my Hermes, right? Cuz Hermes is fully customizable. I can't change models in Grok bot. You could only use Grok for Grok bot. So, there's still going to be things you need to do that require customization, that require cheaper models, require your agent going and doing things on your computer, tinkering, changing things around.

That's where Hermes comes in. That's what I would use Hermes for. But for basic day-to-day knowledge work, Grok bot's the goat right now. Grok bot is the best way to do it. So, I do not recommend ripping out Hermes. Keep Hermes. Use it for cheaper models. Use it for changing things on your computer, doing admin things on your computer, things that require deep customization. And then use Grok bot for your general knowledge work.

I'm absolutely loving Grok bot. I'm sure you are too if you started using it. I hope this was helpful. Let me know down below what you want my next video to be about. Any aspects, Grok Bot, use cases, things like that. Let me know. Hope this was helpful. I'll see you in the next video.