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Grok Bot templates: how to share and install a bot safely

By Atlas AI Resources · Published October 22, 2026 · How we make these guides

A Grok Bot template lets you share a working bot so someone else can launch their own copy. This page starts with our own checklists for publishing and installing templates, then summarizes the official guide: what a template packages, what it leaves out, how to share one with your team or publicly, and how to review one before you add it.

It is based on the official guide Templates for Grok Bot (September 8, 2026) by Matt Palmer, in the Getting started section of the official Grok Bot guides. The steps below are summarized in our words, with a few short quotes; the guide also links a walkthrough video.

1. Our advice: checklists

The checklists in this section are our own, not the guide’s.

Our advice: before you publish a template

• Is the seat stable? Share a bot only after it has done its job cleanly for a while, not after one good run.
• Read View Details. Check every memory, skill, and integration listed. Remove anything about you, your customers, or internal systems that slipped through.
• Write setup instructions. List the plugins, MCP servers, scripts, and API keys the new owner must supply, and ask the bot to encode those setup steps.
• Start with Team. Share with your team first; make a public link only once teammates have installed it without help.

Our advice: before you install someone else’s template

• Know who made it and what job it claims to do. A clear, narrow job is a good sign (see what a one-job Grok Bot is).
• Read the context and integrations on the review screen. If something doesn’t match the stated job, don’t add it.
• Connect the minimum. Give the new bot only the tools its job needs, and add your own stop points (sends, spend, deletes) before its first real task.
• Test on low-stakes work and review the results before you schedule anything; a test run does real work.

2. What a template is

The guide calls templates “the first widely available way to share knowledge work.” A template is a collection of skills, memories, and plugins: a blueprint that lets another user launch a copy of your bot. It is not a one-to-one clone. Sensitive things such as custom code and scripts are not included.

The guide’s analogy: a template is a recipe, not a meal. The person who adds it gets your instructions, relevant memories and skills, and specific plugins, and their bot makes its own version from that.

3. How to share one

1. Open the bot’s settings and click Share as Template (bottom right). The bot packages itself. Nothing goes live at this step; the guide describes templates as an anonymized, private version of the bot.
2. The bot reads through its memories, skills, routines, and plugins. By default it leaves out personal or internal memories that wouldn’t apply to someone else.
3. Click View Details to see exactly what is included: context, memories, and integrations.
4. Choose Team or public, click Publish, then Copy Link.

4. How to install one

On a template page, click Add to Grok Bot. The link opens in your app so you can review the context and integrations, then click Add Bot. You get a distinct new copy. There may still be setup work: included plugins have to be reinstalled, and non-standard pieces such as MCP servers, scripts, or other code aren’t included at all. For complex templates, especially ones that need API keys or custom MCP servers, the guide suggests telling the bot to encode setup instructions and thinking through exactly what a new user would need.

5. Be careful what you install

The guide expects you to “see a ton of them online” and says to evaluate templates the way you would skills or software. Its strongest line: “Be very careful about what you’re installing in your bot.” View the details, read the context and integrations, and make sure everything is what you’d expect before you install it.

A template carries instructions and memories that someone else wrote. Our advice: read them as you would any outside content, and treat anything that tries to widen the bot’s access or send data elsewhere as a reason to stop. Our guide on keeping AI agents safe from prompt injection covers this in more depth. Once installed, set stop points for the new bot. Grok Bot’s guardrails are plain-language rules checked by a review agent, not code. Add them in Settings → General → Auto-review (the 101 guide calls this Settings > General > Agent, with allow and block lists steering the reviewer): Ask first rules always stop matching actions for you, and Allow automatically rules let matching actions proceed only when the automated review does not find another reason to stop. Auto Review is model-based, so the docs say to use it alongside least privilege and explicit approval boundaries, not instead of them. An approval controls the action it is attached to; it does not undo work already done.

Useful public resources

Related: What is a one-job Grok Bot? · Skills before routines · Keeping AI agents safe from prompt injection · Grok Bot for marketing