Step 5: What the primary bot does Beginner

When you first sign in, Grok Bot creates a bot for you, named Grok Bot. Think of it as your main point of contact: you can give it any task, and once you have several bots it can pass the work to the one best suited for it. This step explains the idea so you know when to use it and when to go straight to a specialist.

1. Your first bot

Right after the intro, the app opens a chat with a bot called Grok Bot. Out of the box it's a general helper: ask it to research something, summarize a document, draft an email, or work in a website for you.

2. One front door, many specialists

As you add bots (an inbox helper, a research bot, a reports bot), the primary bot becomes a front door. You can tell it what you need without remembering which bot does what, and it routes the task to the right one of your other bots. Each bot still keeps its own chat, name, description and memory, so the specialist builds up experience in its area.

This is why clear descriptions matter (Step 7): a description that says exactly what a bot is for helps work end up in the right place.

3. When to go direct

• Use the primary bot when you're not sure who should handle something, or when a task touches several areas.
• Message the specialist when you know exactly which bot owns the job and want to continue its earlier work.

4. Write a good request

A strong request states the outcome you want, the sources that matter, any limits, what you want back, and where the bot should stop and check with you. For example:

Summarize this document in five bullets. List every date, decision and open question separately. Don't change the source file.

Facts about the app on this page come from Cursor's official Grok Bot documentation. Menus can change between versions; if something looks different, check the official docs.