Grok Bot doesn’t come with a big skill library. You add plugins from Connect apps, save your own skills in chat, or teach one by showing the Bot a task. The best picks are Google Workspace and Granola for everyday work, Canva for content, last30days for research, and Superpowers and pstack for coding.
A Bot can already browse the web on its own cloud computer, so it can open your to-do app and click around to add a task. That’s slow, and the Bot may not know everything the app can do. Plugins fix that in two ways: connections let the Bot work with an app directly, and skills give it the instructions for a specific job.
Grok Bot installs plugins from the Cursor Marketplace, which is public and lists nearly 500 options. You can browse the full plugin list there. Most of those listings are built for developers, so the 25 below start with everyday work and end with coding. Each plugin uses your own account for that service, so any limits or credits on your plan still apply.
One thing to keep in mind: several of these plugins can send messages, publish posts, or spend money. Start by asking for drafts and checks, and let the Bot act on its own only once you trust it.
Grok vs Grok Build vs Grok Bot
Grok Bot isn’t the same as Grok Build. They’re separate products, and some plugins, such as pstack and Superpowers, are available for both but install differently. This article is about Grok Bot.
| Product | What it is | Where skills live | How to install |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grok | xAI’s chatbot on the web, iPhone, and Android | Your Grok account | Describe a skill in chat, upload a file, or write one |
| Grok Build | xAI’s coding tool for the terminal | .grok/skills/ and ~/.grok/skills/, plus installed plugins | /marketplace or grok plugin install <name> --trust |
| Grok Bot | Long-running AI teammates, each working on a cloud computer | A Private skills library shared by your Bots, plus installed plugins | Connect apps, or save a skill in chat |
What Grok Bot already includes
- Skill creation: ask the Bot to save a task it just finished as a skill.
- Teach a task: show the Bot a browser task, and it drafts a skill from your recording. Recordings can run for up to 10 minutes, and this may not be on every account yet.
- Memory: a Bot keeps your stable preferences, its role, and summaries of past work.
- Ready-to-connect apps: Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub, and many others are waiting in Connect apps. They still need you to add them and sign in.
Grok’s chat app also has five built-in skills: Word Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, PDFs, and Skill Creator. Composio’s guide says Grok Bot has them too, but xAI’s Grok Bot docs don’t list them. To check on your account, ask your Bot what skills it has.
25 best Grok Bot plugins and skills at a glance
“Connect apps” below also means you can use the plugin’s Add to Grok Bot link. Every pick still counts toward your Grok Bot usage, so the last column shows only what’s on top of that.
| No | Plugin or skill | Best for | Works in | How to add | Extra cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Workspace | Email, calendar, and files | Bot | Connect apps | Your Google plan |
| 2 | Granola | Meeting notes | Bot | Connect apps | Your Granola plan |
| 3 | Todoist | Tasks | Bot | Connect apps | Your Todoist plan |
| 4 | Zapier | Apps with no plugin | Bot | Connect apps | Your Zapier plan |
| 5 | Your own skill | Repeat tasks | Bot | Chat | None |
| 6 | Canva | Designs | Bot | Connect apps | Your Canva plan |
| 7 | Buffer | Social posts | Bot | Connect apps | Your Buffer plan |
| 8 | ElevenLabs | Voice and audio | Bot | Connect apps | Your ElevenLabs plan |
| 9 | HeyGen | Avatar videos and dubbing | Bot | Connect apps | HeyGen credits or API billing |
| 10 | Runway | Images and video | Bot | Connect apps | Runway credits |
| 11 | Email Marketing Bible | Email campaigns | Generic | Chat | None |
| 12 | last30days | Recent discussion | Build, generic | Bot’s computer | Keys for some sources |
| 13 | Exa | Web search | Bot, Build | Connect apps | Exa’s pricing |
| 14 | Apify | Site data | Bot | Connect apps | Apify usage |
| 15 | Browser Use | Browser control | Bot, Build | Connect apps | Browser Use’s pricing for its cloud browser |
| 16 | Shop | Shopping | Bot | Connect apps | What you buy |
| 17 | Superpowers | Building software | Bot, Build | Connect apps | None |
| 18 | pstack | Deeper engineering | Bot, Build | Connect apps | None |
| 19 | Thermos | Branch and PR reviews | Bot | Connect apps | None |
| 20 | Cursor Team Kit | CI, reviews, and shipping | Bot | Connect apps | None |
| 21 | Continual Learning | Keeping AGENTS.md current | Bot | Connect apps | None |
| 22 | Vercel React Best Practices | React code | Bot, Build | Connect apps | Your Vercel plan for project work |
| 23 | Supabase | Databases | Bot, Build | Connect apps | Your Supabase plan |
| 24 | Remotion | Videos made with code | Bot | Connect apps | Company license for bigger teams |
| 25 | Impeccable | Frontend design | Bot, Build | Connect apps | None |
Everyday work
These plugins help with email, meetings, tasks, and connecting the Bot to other services, so it can handle the routine parts of your day.
1. Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides)
Google Workspace is really six separate plugins, and most people will use several of them together.
- Gmail searches, reads, and drafts email.
- Google Calendar finds events and schedules meetings.
- Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides let the Bot find, create, and edit your files.
For example, you could ask it to pull last month’s numbers from a spreadsheet and turn them into a short slide deck. Gmail can also send mail, so ask for drafts until you trust it. A personal Google account connects directly. A company account may need an admin to approve Grok first.
Try Now: Gmail | Calendar | Drive | Docs | Sheets | Slides
2. Granola (meeting context)
Granola gives the Bot access to your meeting notes, including what was discussed, decided, and promised. It has three skills: looking up past meetings, preparing you for an upcoming one, and checking a draft or plan against what the group agreed. Before a client call, you could ask what you promised them last time.
You need a Granola account that already has meetings in it, so this only helps if Granola is already taking your notes.
3. Todoist (tasks)
Todoist lets the Bot create, find, and complete tasks and projects. It’s a simple connection with no extra skills, which is fine for a to-do list. For example, you could have the Bot read a meeting recap and add each action item to the right project.
4. Zapier (everything else)
Zapier connects the Bot to more than 9,000 apps. That makes it a catch-all for smaller services that don’t have their own plugin. You sign in to your Zapier account and choose which actions the Bot can use. Enable only the ones you need, because each extra action is one more thing the Bot can do in your accounts.
5. Your own skill (repeat tasks)
The most useful skill may be one you make yourself, because it fits how you work. Say you want a daily Apple news brief. Ask the Bot to find the day’s top three Apple stories and summarize each in two lines. Fix the result until you like it, then say: “Save this as a skill called Daily Apple news brief.”
From then on, you can ask for it by name or put it on a schedule with a routine. There’s nothing to install, and the steps are in the section on creating your own skill below.
Content and creative tools
These plugins help you make and publish things, including designs, social posts, audio, video, images, and email.
6. Canva (designs you can keep editing)
Canva has seven skills, so it goes well beyond making a single graphic. The Bot can edit an existing design, check it against your brand kit, make the changes reviewers left in comments, and resize a design for Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn all at once. The bulk skill saves the most time. Give it a spreadsheet and a brand template, and it makes one design per row.
Canva also works with ChatGPT and Claude, so your designs aren’t tied to Grok.
7. Buffer (social posts)
Buffer lets the Bot draft, schedule, and publish posts across your connected channels. It can also manage your queue and ideas, and review how past posts performed. Ask for a week of drafts and read them before anything gets scheduled, because a published post goes out on your real accounts.
8. ElevenLabs (voice and audio)
ElevenLabs covers text-to-speech, speech-to-text, dubbing, music, sound effects, voice changing, and removing background noise from recordings. A podcaster could clean up a noisy interview and then dub it into another language.
It has 42 skills, but more than half are for developers building voice agents, so you can ignore those. You sign in with your ElevenLabs account, and some skills may ask for an API key.
9. HeyGen (avatar videos and translation)
HeyGen makes presenter videos with an AI avatar, which can be a digital twin built from your photo. For most people, the more useful skill is translation. It dubs a video into more than 175 languages, using voice cloning and lip-sync.
Billing depends on how you connect. Signing in uses the credits on your HeyGen plan, while an API key is billed separately.
10. Runway (images and video)
Runway generates and edits images, video, music, speech, and sound effects. It offers its own Gen-4.5 and Aleph models, plus others such as Seedance, Kling, and GPT Image. For example, you could ask the Bot to animate a product photo, then upscale the result.
You sign in with your Runway account and don’t need an API key. Generating media uses your Runway credits, and any purchase happens on Runway’s website, not in chat.
11. Email Marketing Bible (email campaigns)
Email Marketing Bible is a free skill for auditing an email setup, building flows, writing copy, and fixing deliverability. It includes 19 chapters and playbooks for 19 industries, and it asks for approval before anything is sent. Its author co-founded the email platform Nitrosend, which appears in its platform comparison.
This one was built for Claude Code and other agents, so it isn’t in Connect apps. Send your Bot the repository link and ask it to load the skill. If you already use Klaviyo or Brevo and want the Bot to manage campaigns there, add their plugin instead.
Try Now: Email Marketing Bible | Klaviyo | Brevo
Research and data
These plugins help the Bot find current information, pull data from websites, and act inside a browser or store.
12. last30days (what people are saying now)
last30days searches the past 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, and more. It scores results by upvotes, likes, and money on the line, then gives you a cited summary. It’s handy when you want to know what people think of something right now, not what a search engine ranks highest.
It isn’t in Connect apps, so setup takes more work. Ask the Bot to run npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g on its computer, which needs Python 3.12 or later, and save it as a skill. Reddit, Hacker News, Polymarket, and GitHub work without keys, and X uses the Bot’s own X tools. Some other sources need API keys.
All your Bots share one computer, so any key you put there is available to all of them. You may also need to reinstall the skill if that computer is reset.
13. Exa (better web search)
Exa adds web search and can read a page as clean text. That helps when a task needs current information with sources, such as comparing what several sites say about one product. If the Bot only needs to check a single page now and then, its own browser is enough.
14. Apify (data from popular sites)
Apify runs ready-made scrapers for sites including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, and Yelp. A small business could use it to collect local competitors from Google Maps and list their ratings.
You can browse scrapers without signing in, but running one needs an Apify account. Signup is free and doesn’t require a card. Each run uses Apify usage on top of your Grok Bot usage, so check a scraper’s cost before you schedule it.
15. Browser Use (more control in a browser)
Browser Use gives the Bot direct control of your own Chrome or of a Browser Use cloud browser. It can fill in forms, take screenshots, pull data, and run repeat web tasks. Using your own Chrome takes a one-time setup to turn on remote debugging.
Be careful with this one. Your own Chrome holds your logged-in accounts, so a separate Chrome profile is the safer choice.
16. Shop (buying things)
Shop, from Shopify, searches more than a billion products across millions of stores. It then builds carts and checks out. Searching and building carts work without signing in. If you sign in, the Bot can use Shop Pay and your saved addresses, and track your orders.
If a store doesn’t support Shop Pay, you approve the purchase and the Bot pays with a single-use card. Use Shop first for price comparisons and reorders, and check every cart before you approve it.
For developers
These plugins are for people who build software with the Bot, from planning and testing to reviews, databases, and design.
17. Superpowers (building software properly)
Superpowers is for building software with the Bot. Its 14 skills, created by Jesse Vincent, make the Bot brainstorm a design, write a plan, use test-driven development, find the root cause of a bug, and prove a fix works before calling it done. That slows down simple jobs, so save it for real projects and skip it for a quick script.
If you install it in Grok Build instead, its command uses-trust, which skips the install confirmation. Read what a plugin includes before you use that flag.
18. pstack (deeper engineering work)
pstack is Lauren Tan’s engineering bundle, with the motto “if you want to go fast, go deep first.” Its 58 skills include/sharpen, which improves a task before work starts, and/teach, which explains how some code works. /bro Restates the last message in plain language.
About two dozen of the skills are engineering principles, such as fixing root causes and proving that something works. This is the most demanding pick on the list, so try it after Superpowers, and only if you write code regularly.
19. Thermos (deep branch and PR reviews)
Thermos reviews a code branch hard. One skill audits security and correctness, another checks code quality for things like giant files and tangled logic, and thermos runs both at once and combines the findings. Start with the reviews. It also has optional flows for taking over a branch and getting it ready to merge, and those are better left until you trust the results.
20. Cursor Team Kit (CI, reviews, and shipping)
Cursor Team Kit packs 18 skills based on Cursor’s internal engineering workflows. fix-ci finds failing checks and fixes them, review-and-ship reviews a branch and opens a pull request, and what-did-i-get-done summarizes your commits. Its pull request skills need the Bot to have access to your repository.
Try Cursor Team Kit on Grok Bot
21. Continual Learning (keeping project notes current)
Continual Learning reads past chats and keeps a code project’s AGENTS.md file up to date with what it learns. This overlaps with Bot memory, which already keeps your preferences, role, and past work. Add it only if your project relies on AGENTS.md. Otherwise, memory already covers the basics.
Try Continual Learning on Grok Bot
22. Vercel React Best Practices (cleaner React code)
This skill checks React code for problems with component structure, hooks, and similar basics after the Bot edits your components. It comes inside the Vercel plugin, along with 32 other skills for building and running apps, so you can ignore the rest if you don’t host on Vercel. Anything that touches your projects needs a Vercel account.
23. Supabase (databases)
The Supabase plugin lets the Bot manage tables, fetch settings, and query data in your projects. It also includes a Postgres best practices skill for writing and reviewing queries and database designs. Point it at a test project first, because it can reach real data.
24. Remotion (videos made with code)
Remotion builds videos with React, so you describe the video and the Bot writes the code for it. Its 12 skills cover animations, captions, maps, and exporting the final file. Individuals and small companies can use Remotion for free, while bigger companies need a license. If you just want a quick clip, Runway or HeyGen is the easier choice.
25. Impeccable (frontend design polish)
Impeccable helps fix the generic look of AI-made websites. You can steer a page with commands like polish and bolder, or review it with critique and audit. It also comes with a detector that has 62 rules for spotting common AI design habits, such as purple gradients and cards nested in cards.
Using Grok Build instead?
Grok Build installs plugins from the terminal with grok plugin install <name> --trust. You can also add a skill by hand at ~/.grok/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Neither step adds anything to Grok Bot.
How to create your own Grok Bot skill
1. From chat
- Finish the task with your Bot.
- Ask it to save the task, for example: “Save the process we just used as a skill called Weekly account health.”
- Read the skill, then test it on a real one-time task.
2. With Teach a task
- Open a one-to-one chat with your Bot on your computer, then open its computer view.
- Choose Teach a task, and describe the result you want.
- Do the task once, then stop the recording.
- Review the draft skill, and test it on a safe example.
Recordings can run for up to 10 minutes and don’t capture your microphone. Keep passwords and other secrets off the screen. If you don’t see Teach a task, it may not have reached your account yet, so create the skill from chat.
What a good skill includes
- Trigger: when the Bot should use it.
- Inputs: what it needs, including any app access.
- Steps: the order of the work.
- Validation: how it checks the result.
- Output: what it gives you at the end.
- Approval rules: what it must ask you about first.
Which Grok Bot plugins and skills to start with
| If you’re a | Start with |
|---|---|
| Everyday user | Google Workspace, Todoist, your own skill |
| Creator | Canva, ElevenLabs, last30days |
| Marketer | Buffer, Email Marketing Bible, Apify |
| Developer | Superpowers, Thermos, Cursor Team Kit |
Hold off on Shop and Browser Use until you’ve seen the Bot handle lower-risk jobs, because both can spend your money or act inside your logged-in accounts.
Skill not showing up? Quick fixes
- The Bot can’t find a skill: open Connect apps, select the connected count next to the title, and enable the skill under Private skills.
- The Bot says an app is missing: added doesn’t mean signed in. Open the app and choose Authenticate, or Authorize on a phone, if it shows Needs auth or Disconnected.
- A custom MCP server shows “redirect_uri not allowed”: the server is rejecting Cursor’s sign-in address, so the fix has to come from whoever runs that server. Some servers don’t have one yet.
