How to set up Grok Bot

You get a new agent app and a list of roles to fill. Fill one.

I checked the research behind this setup before writing it up, and 2 things I say in the video need a tighter version here. The $20 number is right as of 26 August 2026, and it is Cursor Pro that includes Grok Bot, with usage that resets every week. The other correction is how you take the weekly list and actually do the work.

How much does Grok Bot cost

As of 26 August 2026 there is no separate Grok Bot subscription. Official billing (checked 28 August 2026) includes Grok Bot on every paid individual Cursor plan, on Cursor Teams, and through an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy link. The cheapest individual route is Cursor Pro at $20 a month. Download the Grok Bot app. Sign in with that same account.

Pro includes a weekly usage allowance, below Pro+ and Ultra. When the week runs out, extra work can continue on on-demand spend if you have that turned on. There is a trial. It is a usage credit with a 7-day window, not a week of unlimited agents. One long job can spend most of it, so start with a small task and check usage before you let something run.

At launch on 11 August 2026, reporting put the individual floor at $200 a month. That was launch pricing. $20 is the number to use now.

How to create a Grok Bot agent

Make one agent. Call it your chief of staff.

Clarke, Krishnamurthy, Talamonti and colleagues at the University of Michigan and Ford compared a single-agent interface with picking an assistant yourself (arXiv 2401.07123, January 2024). 19 people. System Usability Scale averaged 86 (SD 8.9) for the single agent against 56 (SD 21.7) for the picker. Task accuracy was 71% against 57%. Small room. Big gap. Chaves and Gerosa at CHI 2018 found the same pattern with chatbots: several at once made people more confused. In the Michigan study, people said they did not know what each assistant could do, so choosing felt like extra work.

A second agent waits until a second job is sitting there every day. Inbox, money, a build. When the work is there, add the agent.

Why Grok Bot needs files you can open

You will not remember the answers from a long chat. That is how memory works when a computer is holding the notes.

Sparrow, Liu and Wegner published this in Science in July 2011. People typed 40 bits of trivia. When they believed the computer would save the lines, they recalled the lines worse. When the same lines went into 5 named folders, people remembered the folder names better than the trivia. The brain keeps the location.

So day one is files you can see. Get the second-brain starter 2 ways: download the zip, or take it from GitHub. It is free and MIT licensed. Double-click welcome.html. Your chief of staff then asks 10 to 20 questions, one at a time: who you are, what you ship, what a good week looks like. Each answer lands as a file you can open. The same pages exist as markdown and as simple HTML. No terminal.

Answer out loud. Talk to it instead of typing. I say more in a spoken answer than I ever type, and the files come back fuller for it. That is my own preference. No study settles it.

Nielsen Norman Group has treated this as progressive disclosure since at least Nielsen's 2006 article (still on nngroup.com): show the few things that matter first. 10 to 20 questions, one after another in a conversation, is staged disclosure. Ask them in chat. Write them to disk. Open 2 of the files before you close the window, so you know they are there.

That is enough for a first week. Add files later, when the work produces them.

How many Grok Bot agents should I start with

Start with 1. I run 6.

Both numbers are right, in that order. 1 is where you start today. 6 is where I am now, after the work asked for it.

Microsoft Research (Simkute, Tankelevitch, Kewenig, Scott, Sellen and Rintel) wrote this up in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction in October 2024. Generative AI moves you from making the work to checking the work. Extra agents multiply the checking. You still have to leave the chat and do the thing.

So the roster grows when the work grows. Once your files exist and you have run a week, ask your agent how many agents your week actually needs. Mine came out at 6, and those 6 cover my day to day business operations. Yours will not be 6 because I said 6.

How to set up Grok Bot in 3 steps

1. Get the second brain. Download the zip or get it from GitHub. It is free and MIT licensed. Unzip it somewhere permanent and double-click welcome.html. You need the app as well: Cursor Pro at $20 a month (price as of 26 August 2026), then Grok Bot signed in on the same account.
2. Create 1 agent and let it interview you. Name it chief of staff. It asks 10 to 20 questions, one at a time. Talk to it instead of typing. Open 2 of the new files before you close the window, so you know they are there.
3. Ask it for your number. Once the files exist, ask your agent how many agents your week actually needs. Add each one when the work for it turns up every day.

Then ask what you should do this week, and rewrite each item as an if-then. "If it is Tuesday morning, I open the client file and change the button." Gollwitzer and Sheeran's 2006 meta-analysis (94 studies, over 8,000 people) put implementation intentions at d = 0.65. Sheeran, Listrom and Gollwitzer came back in 2024 with 642 tests. The overall effect was d = 0.36. Contingent if-then plans still beat a plain schedule, d = 0.43 against d = 0.29. A weekly list is a schedule. Turn each line into an if-then, then close the app and do the first item.

The video on 02UI walks the clicks. This page is the part that does not fit in a sit-down: the price as of this week, the files, and the if-then line after the list.

What I still do on Monday

6 agents run my week now. The one I talk to on Monday morning is the chief of staff.

That order is the whole thing. Name 1. Answer its questions out loud. Let the other 5 arrive when the work asks for them. Files I can open. A Tuesday morning I already decided.