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Use a personal Grok Bot in Slack

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See why a personal Bot cannot join Slack as a member, then pick either a published Team Bot or the Slack app (under Connect apps) that reads and posts as you.

A published Team Bot can be reached by teammates, including in Slack where that is set up. A personal Bot is not published to Slack. It cannot be @mentioned there, and it cannot be installed as a Slack app. Official pages: Team Bots and Routines. More Grok Bot jobs live on the Grok Bot hub under X, plugins and connectors.

If you need a Bot that people can talk to in Slack

That presence is a Team Bot feature. You need a Cursor team, a published Team Bot, and Slack connected the way the Team Bot docs describe.

  1. Confirm you are on a team that can publish Team Bots.
  2. Publish the Bot you want people to mention. Owner steps live in Set up a Team Bot in Grok Bot.
  3. Have each teammate add that published Bot and, for Slack, finish the Slack account link the Team Bot pages describe. Teammate steps live in Use a published Team Bot.

A personal Bot you created only for yourself does not become a Slack member when you connect Slack. Publishing is the documented path to a Slack presence.

If you want your personal Bot to work in Slack as you

A personal Bot can use the Slack app (under Connect apps) as you. That is read and post as the Slack user you connected, not a second Slack member. A routine can also use a Slack listener trigger. Both of those are separate from being added to a channel as a Bot.

  1. Connect the Slack app on the Cursor account that owns the Bot. See Connect an app to Grok Bot.
  2. Ask the Bot to read or draft in Slack as you. Keep sends that change a channel behind an approval you actually review.
  3. For a wake-on-message job, add a Slack listener on a routine and keep the match narrow so a busy channel does not spend a week of usage in a day. Steps: Set a Slack listener on a Grok Bot routine.

The listener watches a channel you choose. It does not install your personal Bot into Slack or give other people an @mention target.

What this page does not offer

There is no documented setting that turns a personal Bot into a Slack app. There is no documented @mention for a Bot that was never published as a Team Bot. If your account cannot use Team Bots, the plugin and the listener are the documented Slack routes, and they still act as you.

Pitfalls

  • Connecting Slack and expecting teammates to @mention your personal Bot. Mentions in Slack are for a published Team Bot.
  • Treating a Slack listener as a Slack install. The listener wakes a routine; it does not add a member.
  • Watching every message in a busy channel. Official routines help says that pattern can use a week of usage in a day.