TL;DR of my new article: every Grok Bot hack I know.
Grok Bot is two weeks old. It already runs my inbox, my research, my meeting notes, my kids' calendar, my grocery cart, and as of this morning it makes my phone calls in Portuguese.
📝 Install Compound Engineering in your bot and make it plan first (@kieranklaassen + @trevin). Force a plan, get better work
📬 Give your bot its own inbox on @agentmail (@adisingh). Not your Gmail, or one bot's mistake flags your whole domain
☎️ Give it a @twilio number and it makes the call. Mine switches to Portuguese mid-call (@martindonadieu showed the shape)
🔎 Turn a bot into @slashlast30days, then cron it weekly on your business, your competitors, yourself
🚪 One front door that delegates. @mattshumer_ pointed a Chief of Staff at two bots expecting it to fall apart. It worked out of the box
🧭 Hire a Bot Advisor whose only job is building and tightening your other bots (https://t.co/Tdprqqq3gE, inspired by @petergyang)
💼 Permanent named roles, then fire the ones that don't work. @HouseHackerJon automated work-order intake in 4 hours and fired his first bot
🧱 Write the instructions in three layers: base, role, current focus
🤫 Silence is the hack. Ping me ONLY on a real hit (@johnviklund, @PrajwalTomar_)
📸 Screenshot anything and text it to your bot. Never retype what's already on the screen
🍪 Agent Cookie syncs your Chrome session over Tailscale so it never gets logged out. New machine, new address, a week untouched, Instacart still worked first try
🖨️ Printing Press CLIs inside the bot (@ppressdev): Instacart, ESPN, flights, tickets
👀 Peekaboo, @steipete's Mac automation tool, so it can see AND click your native Mac apps, not only the cloud browser (via @benln)
💻 You can log into Claude Code on your bot's own computer (@Austen)
🥣 GranolaBoy: every meeting I've ever had, one question away (@meetgranola)
⏺️ Teach by recording, and respect the 10 minute cap nobody mentions (@DillonLoomis)
🗂️ Files are the memory bus between bots. Bots are NOT a security boundary. The docs say that twice
🛑 Draft-then-approve anything that sends. @darian314's bot paid its own monthly fee hunting down refunds
📚 Steal the lists: @ericzakariasson's 100, @benln's internal one, @milesdeutscher's 25, @petergyang's tutorial. Plus @kunchenguid's Grok Ship
📱 Run it from your phone, and talk to it
💸 The honest part: the price moved to $60 but the meter didn't, unsupervised crews multiplied their own errors 17x, and most of your bots don't own an outcome. Count them.
Full article below.