Message and collaborate with Grok Bot

Grok Bot is designed to feel like messaging a teammate. Keep requests natural, but make the outcome and the decision boundary explicit: what the Bot may change, and where it must stop for you.

Message a Bot

Open a Bot from the sidebar and type a message. You can:

• Paste text, links, and images
• Attach local files
• Dictate into the composer
• Start a voice chat
• Play a voice memo a Bot sent
• Ask for a saved skill by name
• Mention a Bot, group, routine, or app with @
• Reply to a specific message
• React to a message
• Send another instruction while work is in progress

The transcript shows tool activity, computer use, created files, questions, approval requests, and voice memos alongside normal messages.

Dictate a message

Voice typing turns your speech into text in the composer. You read it, edit it, and send it like any other message, and the Bot replies in text.

On desktop, choose Start voice input in the composer, or press Cmd/Ctrl+D while the prompt is focused. You can also hold the keys while you talk.

On iPhone and Android, use Start dictation in the composer. Stop dictation before you start a voice chat. See Grok Bot for Mobile.

Play a voice memo

A Bot can reply with a voice memo in the conversation. Choose Play voice memo to listen, Pause voice memo to stop, and expand the memo to read the transcript.

Start a voice chat

A voice chat is a live spoken conversation with one Bot: the Bot answers out loud and keeps listening until you hang up. Voice chat works in the desktop app and the phone app.

1. Open the chat with the Bot and leave the composer empty.
2. Choose Start voice chat, the waveform button in the composer.
3. Allow microphone access if your computer or phone asks.

The call shows Connecting… on desktop or Calling… on the phone, then the Bot starts talking. Start voice chat shows only when the composer is empty; if the composer is empty and you still don't see it, update Grok Bot. While you are on the line, the app shows Voice chat, and on desktop the sidebar can show Voice chat in progress.

During a call you can Mute or Unmute your microphone, Hang up, or choose Show transcript to read along. In a call with your own Bot, Show settings changes the Voice, the Speed, and the Language; Auto-detect picks the language from what you say. You can open other chats while the call runs; on desktop, choose Return to the voice chat to go back. Only one voice chat runs at a time, so starting another asks End the current voice chat?; choose End and Chat to switch.

Voice chat works with one Bot at a time, not in group chats; open that Bot's own chat to start a call. On desktop you can also voice chat with a teammate's shared Bot from your own chat with it.

If the connection drops, Grok Bot tries to reconnect on its own first, so a short drop usually picks back up without you doing anything. If it can't, the call ends with Voice chat failed, and the notice may say Connection lost, No connection, or The call ended unexpectedly. Choose Dismiss, check your internet connection, and choose Start voice chat again.

If Grok Bot says microphone access was denied, allow it to use the microphone in your system settings. If it says no microphone was found, connect one and try again. To choose which microphone the desktop app uses, open Settings and pick one under Microphone.

When the call ends, the conversation includes a Voice chat card with the call's length; open it to read the full transcript. If the call left work to do, the Bot may follow up in the chat with next steps or results. Grok Bot may ask How was the call?; choose Good or Bad to send feedback.

Review a draft before it is sent

When a Bot prepares an email or Slack message for you, the conversation can show an editable draft. Review the recipients and body, then choose Send, or Send message for a Slack draft in the desktop app. Choose Discard to drop the draft.

Bots draft outgoing messages for your review by default. A draft card shows Needs approval. If you'd rather have a Bot send without preparing drafts, open that menu on one of its drafts and choose Disable drafts for Bot. The Bot then sends directly, subject to your Auto Review settings. The choice applies to that Bot only, and only its owner sees it; it isn't offered in group chats. Email from the Bot's own address that you didn't request in chat, such as email from a routine, always waits as a draft. To get drafts back, choose Needs approval on a draft card or ask the Bot. If the change doesn't save, the card shows Couldn't save. Try again.; choose Retry.

Redirect work in progress

Send a new message when priorities change. A direct message from you takes priority over background work and can redirect the current turn.

Send a direct “Stop now” message when work should end immediately. This does not undo actions the Bot already completed.

Chat in X Chat

You can also chat with your Bots in X Chat, in the X app on iOS and Android and on x.com. They're the same Bots you use in the Grok Bot app. X Chat support is rolling out gradually, so it may not show up for you yet even if your plan includes it, and it needs the latest version of the X app.

You need a plan that includes Grok Bot. On The X Subscription, that's Premium, Super, or Ultra; Plus doesn't include Grok Bot. Legacy Cursor plans and linked SuperGrok or X Premium+ accounts that include Grok Bot also work. See Grok Bot on The X Subscription.

Your Grok account also needs to be connected to a Cursor account. Connecting from X Chat works only for personal accounts. It isn't available when your email is on a domain your company manages, your Cursor account is on a team, or your Cursor account is on a legacy request-based plan. If a Cursor account already uses your email, you need to agree before it's connected.

X Chat uses the Grok account your X account is connected to. If you have more than one Grok account, that may not be the one you use with Grok Bot, and trying again doesn't help. To connect your X account to the Grok account you use with Grok Bot:

1. In a browser, sign in at accounts.x.ai with the Grok account you use with Grok Bot.
2. In the same browser, sign in to x.com with your X account.
3. Open x.com/i/jf/grok/entry. Choose to link another account, then allow access for the Grok account you signed in with.
4. Quit and reopen the X app, or reload x.com, and open your Bots again.

If that Grok account is already connected to a different X account, this doesn't work. If none of these match, contact support with your X handle and the email on your Grok account.

Start a group chat

Use a group when several Bots need one shared outcome and visible handoffs. You can also add a Bot a teammate shared with you, but not alongside Bots that run on your own computer.

1. Choose New chat, press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N, or open the command palette with Cmd/Ctrl+K and choose New group chat.
2. In the To: field, add two to six Bots.
3. Open the group, then edit its generated name if needed.
4. Describe the shared outcome and who owns the next step.

On iPhone or Android, use + → New Group Chat. Group membership can be edited later.

To rename a group on desktop, right-click it in the sidebar and choose Rename chat, or click the group's name at the top of the chat and click the name in its details to edit it. On the phone, tap the group's name at the top of the chat, tap Edit, change the Name, and tap Done. To change what the group is for, tell the Bots in the group.

Group chats don't have the per-Bot Notifications switch. See Control notifications.

Direct a message

• Write normally to let the participating Bots decide who should respond.
• Type @ and select a Bot when one teammate owns the request.
• Choose Reply on a Bot's message to direct your answer to that Bot.
• Mention multiple Bots when the request genuinely needs each of them.
• Use @everyone sparingly for a group-wide update.

Bots can post into the group and pass work among themselves. A useful kickoff assigns one owner per stage:

Your messages in a group can include attachments. A Bot's replies there can include files, questions, and forms, as in a one-to-one conversation, and your answer to a question or form goes back to the Bot that asked. Approval requests, secret and login requests, and email or Slack drafts do not appear in a group. Bot-to-group handoff messages are text-only, so a Bot should send an image directly to another Bot when that teammate must inspect it.

Keep replies in the group

When you write in a group chat, the Bots answer there. A Bot can also message you in its own chat, or message another Bot to hand off work; those messages show up in the Bots' own chats, not in the group.

To keep a Bot's replies in the group, tell it there: “Reply here in the group. Don't message me privately about this.” To make it a lasting rule, ask each Bot to remember it: “Remember: in group chats, reply in the group.”

Stop Bots from messaging each other

There is no switch for this. Bots message each other to hand off work, and they follow your instructions about it.

1. Tell the Bots in the chat, for example: “Don't message other Bots. Ask me first.”
2. To keep the rule, ask each Bot to remember it.
3. If a Bot keeps starting new work, open that Bot's chat and ask it to stop.

To quiet a helper Bot without deleting it, turn off its notifications or hide it. Every Bot reply counts toward your usage, including replies in a group and messages between Bots, so fewer Bots in a group means fewer replies.

Let Bots hand work off

A Bot can send an asynchronous message to another Bot. The receiving Bot wakes, handles the request, and can reply later. You can see the handoff in the conversation.

This is useful when:

• One Bot owns a source system and another owns the deliverable
• A specialist should review a draft
• A blocker belongs to another role
• A long-running job should continue without you coordinating every step

Ask for a single owner at each stage. Parallel handoffs create duplicate work and noisy updates.

A handoff needs a Bot acting for one person on that turn. Where you talk to it, and whether it's a personal Bot or a shared Bot, decide this:

To hand work between Bots from a Slack channel, share a Bot and add it to Slack. A shared Bot has its own Slack app and handle, and anyone in the channel can give it work. See How do I add a shared Bot to Slack?

Use threads and reactions

Reply in a thread when feedback applies to one result or one approval request. This keeps the main transcript focused while preserving the context of the decision.

Use reactions for lightweight acknowledgement. Use a written reply when the Bot needs a changed instruction; a reaction alone should not carry a safety-critical decision.

Find prior work

Use the search or command palette to:

• Switch between Bots and groups
• Find prior messages
• Find files, links, and routines
• Open settings and common actions
• Jump back to the matching place in a conversation

Search availability can vary during rollout. If cross-conversation results are not available, open the relevant Bot and use its conversation history.

Press Cmd/Ctrl+K for the search palette, or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F to search Bots. The full desktop list is in Keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts

These shortcuts work in the Grok Bot desktop app. Use Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux unless a line says otherwise.

• Jump to / search palette: Cmd/Ctrl+K
• Search Bots: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F
• New Bot: Cmd/Ctrl+N
• New group chat: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N
• Show all keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+/
• Find in this chat: Cmd/Ctrl+F
• Compact sidebar: Cmd/Ctrl+B
• Focus prompt: Cmd/Ctrl+I
• Add selected text to chat: Cmd/Ctrl+L, which focuses the prompt when nothing is selected
• Sidebar Bot 1–9: Cmd/Ctrl+1 through Cmd/Ctrl+9
• Previous / next Bot: Alt+↑ / Alt+↓
• Back / forward in visit history: Cmd/Ctrl+[ / Cmd/Ctrl+]
• Cycle Bots: Control+Tab / Control+Shift+Tab (always Control, including on macOS)
• Connect apps: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+M or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+W
• Toggle Bot settings: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+,
• Conversation details: Cmd+Shift+I or Cmd+Alt+B on macOS; Ctrl+Alt+B on Windows and Linux
• Send: Enter in the composer, or Cmd/Ctrl+Enter from anywhere
• New line: Shift+Enter
• Dictate into the composer: Cmd/Ctrl+D while the prompt is focused
• Start voice chat: choose Start voice chat in the composer; there is no keybinding
• Open Settings: Cmd/Ctrl+,
• Zoom in, out, or reset: Cmd/Ctrl+= / Cmd/Ctrl+- / Cmd/Ctrl+0
• Fullscreen: F11; on macOS also Control+Cmd+F

To see every shortcut in the app, open the account menu and choose Support → Keyboard shortcuts, or press Cmd/Ctrl+/.

Keep conversations effective

• Lead with the result you need, not a detailed imitation of every click.
• Link the source of truth.
• State what the Bot may change and what requires approval.
• Ask for evidence—links, screenshots, or a short action log.
• Correct lasting preferences explicitly.
• Start a thread or a new Bot when a conversation has changed to a different long-lived job.

See Files and results for attachments, Skills and routines for repeatable work, and Approvals, security, and privacy before authorizing external actions.