Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-09-29 · 0:26 · 254 views · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

This short post reshares xAI's announcement of Team Bots in Grok. Team Bots are shared AI teammates that a whole team works with, and they learn as the team uses them. You set one up for a role by giving it skills, plugins and credentials, then work with it in Slack or Grok Bot. The 26-second clip doesn't explain how the feature works; the only spoken words, "AI, Karpathy", come from a garbled machine transcript.

Key points

• Team Bots are shared AI teammates inside Grok that the whole team uses, not a personal assistant for one person.
• The announcement says Team Bots learn as your team works with them.
• You set a bot up for a specific role by giving it three things: skills, plugins and credentials.
• You can work with a Team Bot in Slack or through Grok Bot.
• The general pattern is an agent with a defined role, tool access through plugins and credentials, and memory it builds from team use.
• The post explains nothing beyond the announcement. The caption, "It's just Tuesday!", is a comment on how fast new AI features are coming out.

Resources mentioned

• Grok Team Bots · tool · x.com · paid
  A Grok feature for creating shared AI teammates with role-specific skills, plugins and credentials that learn from team use.
• Grok · tool · x.com · free
  xAI's AI assistant. Here it is used as a terminal coding agent that also runs with the 'agent' alias.
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• Slack · tool · slack.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Team chat app where the user-feedback channel lives and where the agent replies to close the loop.
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• Andrej Karpathy · person · karpathy.ai · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI researcher and educator known for clear, free lessons on neural networks and LLMs.
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