Grok Bot plugins: connect apps and what to do without one
Open Connect apps, add a plugin and sign in, and every Bot on your account can use it. If your app has no plugin, a Bot can use its website instead.
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A plugin signs a Bot in to an app you use, such as Gmail, Slack or Notion, so the Bot can work there directly. You add plugins in Connect Apps, and an app with no plugin can still be reached through its website.
A Bot has two ways into an app: a plugin, or the app's website in the browser on its computer. Both reach the same account, and the plugin gets there in one step.
The plugin is the direct line. The website still works when an app has no plugin.
A plugin changes four things:
The Bot asks the app directly. It searches the mail or creates the event in one request, where the website route means opening pages and clicking. That's often more reliable.
The Bot gets your access and no more. A plugin can do only what the account you sign in with can already do. It can't raise your access or change who a file is shared with.
Your sign-in stays out of the Bot's hands. You sign in on the app's own page, and the Bot uses the connection without ever receiving the token behind it.
One connection serves every Bot. A plugin is installed on your account, so every Bot you have can use it.
The sign-in page belongs to the app you're connecting, and it opens in your browser, outside Grok Bot. Pick the account, approve what the page asks for, and finish within about 10 minutes.
The last page reads Authorization complete! You can close this tab. Close it and go back to Grok Bot.
In Connect Apps, click the count at the top right, such as 11 connected. A page titled Manage plugins and skills lists every plugin you've added and the state of each.
You can also start from a chat. Ask a Bot for work in an app it can't reach yet, and it offers to add the plugin, then posts a card with an Authorize button that opens the same sign-in page.
Connect Apps lists 238 plugins in ten categories. Before you go looking, check your app here: the finder says whether it has a plugin, what a Bot can do with it, and what happens when it has none.
Is there a plugin for your app?
Type an app's name, or tap one that people ask about.
Asked about most
The finder needs JavaScript to search. The answers for the apps people ask about most follow, then the full list.
Has a plugin
Gmail
Find it
Gmail, under Communication in Connect Apps.
A Bot can
Search and read your mail, write drafts, send, and apply labels, in the mailbox you connect.
Know this
On a work Google account, your admin may have to approve the app named Grok before the sign-in goes through.
Four separate plugins: Outlook and Outlook Calendar under Communication, OneDrive and Teams under Productivity. Nothing in the list is named Microsoft 365, Word, Excel or SharePoint.
A Bot can
With Outlook: search, read and send email, and look up contacts. With Outlook Calendar: list, create, update and cancel events. With OneDrive: browse, search and read files. With Teams: search, read and send chats and channel messages.
Know this
Add each one you need. Adding Outlook doesn't add the calendar.
Search pages and databases, create and update records, and publish content to your workspace.
Know this
Notion takes a second account, so you can connect two workspaces and tell the Bot which one to use by its label.
Built in
GitHub
Find it
GitHub, under Code in Connect Apps. Its button reads Connect GitHub in place of Add.
A Bot can
Read and act on pull requests, issues, checks and code.
Know this
GitHub comes with the app, so its page has no Uninstall button.
Has a plugin
Linear
Find it
Linear, under Productivity in Connect Apps.
Know this
A Linear event can also start a routine, so a Bot can pick up work when something changes there.
No plugin
WhatsApp
Find it
Nothing in Connect Apps is named WhatsApp, and you can't message a Bot from WhatsApp.
Without one
The only route is WhatsApp's website in the Bot's browser, signed in as you.
Know this
WhatsApp has suspended accounts after their owner connected a Bot to them. Keep a Bot out of your personal WhatsApp.
No plugin
LinkedIn
Find it
Nothing in Connect Apps is named LinkedIn.
Without one
A Bot can open LinkedIn's website in its browser once you've signed in there.
Know this
LinkedIn has ended every session on an account after a Bot sent messages from it. Have the Bot write the messages, and send them yourself.
Has a plugin
1Password
Find it
1Password, under Password Managers in Connect Apps. Its button reads Connect.
A Bot can
Fill saved logins on its own computer. Connecting sets up a vault named “Shared with Grok Bot”, and a Bot can read only that vault.
Know this
Only the items you move into that vault are shared. It's the plugin to add when your Bots sign in to websites that have no plugin.
Has a plugin
X
Find it
X, under Communication in Connect Apps.
A Bot can
Search posts, read timelines, pull trends, manage bookmarks and use X Chat.
Know this
Connecting creates an X developer account for you if you don't have one, and the plugin spends that account's X API credits. Paid Grok Bot plans come with free credits to start.
Has plugins
Google Docs and Slides, but no Drive or Sheets
Find it
Google Docs is under Productivity and Google Slides under Design. The list has no plugin named Google Drive or Google Sheets.
Know this
No plugin can change who a file is shared with.
Listed, can't connect
Zoom
Find it
Zoom, under Communication in Connect Apps.
Know this
Zoom's sign-in fails with error 4700 (Invalid redirect). It's a known issue with no workaround, and nothing you change on your side fixes it.
Meanwhile
Have a Bot create the meeting in Google Calendar, and put the Zoom link in the event's location yourself.
Ask a Bot
An MCP server
Find it
Connect Apps has no form for adding a server. You add one by asking a Bot.
In Connect Apps, under its category. Type its name in the search box, click Add, then sign in.
What it does
Open the plugin's page in Connect Apps before you add it. The page describes the plugin and lists the skills that come with it.
Know this
Once it's connected, every Bot on your account can use it.
No plugin
Nothing by that name in Connect Apps
Check first
Try the name of the company that makes the app. Jira, for example, comes with the Atlassian plugin.
Without one
Ask a Bot to do the job on the app's website. The Bot opens the site in the browser on its computer and asks you to sign in when it reaches the login page.
Know this
The website route is often less reliable than a plugin, and some sites block a cloud computer. Logins and CAPTCHAs covers what to do then.
When the answer is No plugin, the Bot works on the app's website. It opens the site in the browser on its own computer and asks you to sign in there, and that sign-in then serves every Bot on your account. The shared computer shows the sign-in step.
On the plugin's page, click Authenticate on the account's row. Your browser opens the app's sign-in page.
Sign in and approve. The row changes to Connected, and the Tools row appears under it.
If that doesn't clear it:
A card in a chat that says "Waiting for [app] authorization..." has a Reopen button, which brings the sign-in page back.
A Bot posts a card only when a plugin needs a sign-in, so don't wait for one. Start from the plugin's page.
As a last step, click Uninstall, add the plugin again and sign in. Uninstalling disconnects the app for every Bot, so routines that use it fail until you've reconnected.
Click Authorize and sign in with the second account.
Tell a Bot which account to use by its label: "Use my work Notion." Every Bot on your account can use every connected account. A plugin with no Add Another Account line takes one account at a time.
You added the Google Calendar plugin last week. Today a Bot says it can't reach your calendar, and in Connect Apps the plugin reads Added. What's going on?
An update removed the plugin, so it has to be added again
The plugin is installed, and its account isn't signed in
The plugin was added for another Bot, and this Bot needs its own
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The plugin is installed, and its account isn't signed in
Added means installed. Open the plugin's page and its account row reads Needs auth. Click Authenticate, sign in, and every Bot on your account can use the calendar.
Added means installed. Open the plugin's page and its account row reads Needs auth. Click Authenticate, sign in, and every Bot on your account can use the calendar.
With an app connected, a Bot can do its job there on a schedule, without being asked each time.
Yes. In the phone app, tap your picture at the top left and choose Plugins. If an app's sign-in fails on the phone, connect it on a computer, and the connection carries over.
Does a plugin use up my weekly usage?
Usage is spent by the work a Bot does, and work through a plugin counts like any other. Usage limits explains the meter.
Why does a plugin say Disabled by team admin?
On a Cursor team, your admin chooses which plugins the team can use, and Grok Bot follows that list. Ask your admin to turn the plugin on. The block covers the plugin only, so a Bot can still reach the app's website.
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