Use a published Team Bot

Add a Team Bot your org already published so you chat with the same shared plugins, secrets, skills, files, and team memory your teammates use, while keeping your own private conversation. Official steps live under Team Bots → Use a Team Bot. Team Bots are available to members of a team; if your account cannot use them, opening a Team Bot link shows Team Bots Not Available.

What you need

Membership on a Cursor team that already has at least one published Team Bot, plus the Grok Bot desktop or mobile app (Slack works after the owner connects the Bot and you link your Slack account). Neighboring jobs include Set up a Team Bot in Grok Bot for the owner publish path, Share a Grok Bot when you need a personal template copy instead of one live team Bot, and Share one Grok Bot roster across teammates for choosing between those shapes. More Grok Bot jobs live on the Grok Bot hub.

Add and start a chat

1. Choose New chat, then Team Bots at the bottom of that panel.
2. Find the Bot. In the desktop app, type at least three characters in Search Team Bots to search Bots you have not added yet.
3. Choose Add, then Start a chat.
4. Or open a link a teammate sent you. A Team Bot shows its owner’s name next to its own.

Your chat starts fresh. The Bot knows team setup and what it has learned about you; it does not surface other teammates’ private chats. As a teammate you can pin the Bot, hide it from your sidebar, and create your own routines with it. You cannot change shared plugins, secrets, skills, or files — ask the owner for those edits.

How access and usage behave

Plugins that sign in with OAuth use your account the first time you need them; key-or-token plugins use the Bot’s shared credential. In Slack channels or group chats, the Bot asks before using one of your personal connectors; in your 1:1 app chat or Slack DM it can use your own connectors without that extra card. Usage for teammate chats counts against your own Grok Bot allowance, not the owner’s. Routines you create stay personal — they run as you and report in your chat.

Pitfalls

Expecting a Marketplace template install to behave like a Team Bot leaves you with a personal copy that diverges from the team’s maintained Bot. Trying to edit shared skills or secrets as a non-owner fails by design — only the owner changes setup. Leaving Slack account linking unfinished under Settings → General → Team Bots blocks answers in Slack until you link.