What the Grok Bot Marketplace is

The Grok Bot Marketplace at x.ai/bot/marketplace is xAI's official catalog of Bot templates: ready-made Bots you can add to your own account. A template is a recipe, not a clone: it carries a Bot's identity, instructions, skills and routines, and some plugins and memories, but never the creator's computer, logins or conversation history. Anyone can also share a template by link, publicly or with their team only.

When we checked on September 23, 2026, the page had a Featured row, a From Grok Bot Team row, and rows for Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Design, Personal, Recruiting & People, Product and Operations. Each card names its creator and has an Add button. Examples include Haggle Bot by Daniel Gartshein, which inventories SaaS spend and drafts vendor counters for review, and Recruiting Coordinator by Tommy Hansen. The page showed no prices, and none of the pages we checked explain how Bots are chosen for it.

Do not confuse it with Marketplace inside the app. In the Grok Bot app, Marketplace in the sidebar is where you discover plugins and packaged skills, and Your plugins lists what you have installed.

Documentation: Grok Bot Marketplace ↗ xAI: Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) ↗ Create and manage Bots: Share a Bot ↗ Settings: plugins live in Marketplace ↗

What a template copies, and what it leaves out

The docs describe what a viewer sees: a public link shows the Bot's shared configuration, including its identity, description, skills and routines. xAI's September 8 template guide, by Matt Palmer, adds that a template packages the Bot's instructions, relevant memories, skills and specific plugins, excludes personal or internal memories by default, and does not carry MCP servers, custom code or scripts. For complex setups, the guide suggests having the Bot write setup instructions into the template.

Duplicate is different. It copies a Bot inside your own account, with its profile, settings, enabled skills, routines and avatar, but not its conversation history, learned memory or chat attachments.

Documentation: Create and manage Bots: Share a Bot ↗ xAI: Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) ↗

Part of the BotIn a shared template?
Name, description and avatarYes
SkillsYes; xAI's guide says personal or private skills are left out
Routines (schedules and triggers)Yes
MemoriesRelevant ones, per xAI's guide; personal or internal memories are excluded by default
First-party pluginsListed, but the new owner reinstalls and authenticates them
MCP servers, custom code and scriptsNo
The creator's computer, files and loginsNo
Conversation historyNo

Add a template to your account

Adding a shared Bot accepts SpaceXAI's third-party bot terms. They say third-party Bots are created by other users, that SpaceXAI does not verify, endorse or guarantee their functionality or safety, and that a Bot may read, write and send data through the accounts you connect. The copy runs on your shared computer and uses your own plan's Grok Bot usage.

Documentation: Create and manage Bots: Share a Bot ↗ xAI: Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) ↗ SpaceXAI third-party bot terms ↗ Cursor plans and billing for Grok Bot ↗

  1. Open the template link or a Marketplace card. The preview opens on x.ai.
  2. Choose Add to Grok Bot. You need the Grok Bot app installed to finish.
  3. In the app, review the context and integrations the template includes, then choose Add Bot.
  4. Reinstall and authenticate the plugins it lists, and set up anything a template cannot carry, such as MCP servers or API keys.
  5. Before turning on its routines, give it one bounded task and read what it did.

Check a template before you add it

xAI's own guide says to evaluate templates the way you would evaluate skills or software, and to make sure everything in a template is exactly what you expect before installing it. This checklist is our editorial version of that advice.

Documentation: xAI: Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) ↗ Official troubleshooting ↗ Grok Bot FAQ ↗ Approvals, security and privacy ↗

  • Read the description and View details: every skill, routine and integration should fit the job it claims.
  • Look hard at routines. A routine runs on its own, and even a test run can take real external actions.
  • Remember what it will reach. Every Bot on your account shares one computer, its files and its logins, so a new Bot can use sessions your other Bots signed into.
  • Prefer templates that stop before sending, publishing, purchasing or deleting, and add your own Ask first rules for those actions.
  • Be wary of a template that asks for keys or passwords in chat. Secrets belong in a secure secret request or a computer takeover, not a message.

Share your own Bot as a template

A public link can be opened by anyone who has it. A Team-only link opens only for members of your team. Enterprise accounts default to Team-only; other accounts default to a public link. Team admins can turn off Public template sharing from the Cursor dashboard, and Cursor then enforces team-only sharing on its servers, including for templates that are already public.

The third-party bot terms make you responsible for what you share and tell you to review the configuration for API keys, internal URLs, customer data and personal information first. They also say people who add your Bot may not redistribute it or its configuration without your permission.

Documentation: Create and manage Bots: Share a Bot ↗ Grok Bot FAQ ↗ Teams and enterprises: public template sharing ↗ SpaceXAI third-party bot terms ↗ xAI: Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) ↗

  1. Remove API keys, internal URLs, customer data and anything you would not put in a public document from the Bot's description, skills and routines.
  2. Open the Share menu and choose Create template. The Bot builds the template; xAI's guide shows the same action as Share as Template in the Bot's settings.
  3. Choose View template details and check exactly what was packaged.
  4. Pick who can open it: Public link or Team-only.
  5. Choose Copy link and send it. After you change the Bot, use Update template.

The official Marketplace and community directories

The Marketplace is run by xAI and shows a selection. Many more Bots are shared as plain public links on x.ai and posted on X, GitHub and blogs. Community directories, including the Bot directory on this site at /bots, collect those public links so you can search them. Ours re-checks every link daily, shows what the share page itself says, credits the creator, and sends you to x.ai for the add step. It does not copy any Bot's configuration, and a listing is not a test result or an endorsement.

Whichever route you use, the add happens on x.ai and in the app under the same third-party bot terms. A directory listing does not make a template safer than a Marketplace card, or the reverse. Both deserve the same check.

Documentation: Grok Bot Marketplace ↗ SpaceXAI third-party bot terms ↗

Quick answers

Where is the official Grok Bot Marketplace?

At x.ai/bot/marketplace. It lists Bot templates by category with the creator's name and an Add button. The Marketplace inside the Grok Bot app is a different thing: it is where you find plugins and packaged skills.

Is a Grok Bot template the same as a share link?

Yes. Sharing a Bot creates a template and gives you a link to it; the link opens a preview on x.ai where others can add a copy. Marketplace cards and links posted elsewhere lead to the same kind of preview and the same add step.

Does adding a template give the creator access to my account?

The docs say adding a shared Bot creates a copy on your account and does not give you the creator's computer, logins or history; they describe no link back from your copy to the creator's account. Your copy runs on your own shared computer with the accounts you connect, which is why the third-party bot terms say it may read, write and send data through them.

Can my team stop members from publishing public templates?

Yes. Team admins control Public template sharing on the Grok Bot page of the Cursor dashboard. When it is off, sharing stays team-only, and Cursor enforces this on its servers, including for templates that are already public. Enterprise teams start with it off; other teams start with it allowed.

What is Import Bot?

A Marketplace template by Shub Gaur. Its description says it brings your setup from Claude Cowork, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and Hermes into Grok Bot, changes nothing in the old tools, and scrubs secrets before saving. That is the creator's description; we have not tested it, and it falls under the same third-party bot terms as any other template.

Sources & next steps

Capabilities are grounded in the documentation below. The workflow design and acceptance checks are editorial suggestions.

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