Connecting Cloudflare Beginner
Connect Cloudflare so your bot can work in it for you. This guide explains what that means, how to connect it in a few clicks, and practical things to try.
What you'll learn
- What connecting Cloudflare lets your bot do
- How to connect it step by step
- How to stay in control and disconnect
Before you start
- The Grok Bot app, installed and signed in. New? See where to download it and installing and signing in.
- A Cloudflare account you can sign in to.
1. What Cloudflare is and why connect it
Cloudflare is a service that runs websites, domains and web apps. A connector is a link that lets your bot work inside an app for you, instead of you clicking around yourself. Once Cloudflare is connected, you can just ask in plain words and your bot does the work in Cloudflare. New to connectors? Read What is a connector first.
2. Connect Cloudflare
- Open Grok Bot and click Connect apps in the sidebar. (Or just type "Connect Cloudflare" to your bot; it can show a Connect card right in the chat.)
- Find Cloudflare in the list. If you can't find it, ask your bot; which connectors appear can depend on your account.
- Click to connect. Your web browser opens Cloudflare's own sign-in page.
- Sign in there and read what access it asks for, then approve. Your password goes to Cloudflare, never into the chat.
- Come back to Grok Bot and test it with a simple request, like one of the ideas below.
Changing DNS can take a website or email offline, so ask your bot to show you any change and wait for your approval before it applies it.
3. What your bot can do with it
- You can ask it to look up Cloudflare documentation.
- You can ask it to check and manage account resources like sites, Workers and DNS records.
Exactly which actions are available depends on the connector's current tools. If you're not sure, ask: "What can you do with Cloudflare?"
4. Staying in control
A connected app is available to every bot on your account. Bots draft messages and changes for your approval, and risky actions are checked by Auto-review (see Safety and approvals). To cut access later, remove the connection on the Cloudflare side (Cloudflare: MCP servers) or ask your bot how to disconnect it.
Ideas to try
- Your first website.
Explain how I'd host a simple one-page site on Cloudflare Pages, step by step.
- Check your domain.
List the DNS records for my domain and explain what each one does. Don't change anything.
- Learn by asking.
Search the Cloudflare docs for how Email Routing works and summarize it.
- Status check.
List my Cloudflare Pages projects and when each was last deployed.
Tips
- Start with read-only requests (search, list, summarize) before asking for changes.
- If you have more than one account, tell the bot which one to use.
- If Cloudflare stops responding, ask your bot to check the connection. You may just need to sign in again.
Facts about the Grok Bot app come from Cursor's official Grok Bot documentation. Cloudflare details: Cloudflare: MCP servers. Menus and services change; if something looks different, check the official docs or ask your bot.