Grok Bot teams earns a 7.6 out of 10 from me: the sharing, privacy and Slack design are strong, and the safety and admin gaps cost it points.
The feature launched as Team Bots in v0.61.0 on 26 September 2026 and now lives in the docs as Shared Bots.
Every rating below is my editorial judgement from the official docs and changelog, read on 31 October 2026.
I scored ten criteria, each with the one-line reason behind it.
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The Grok Bot teams verdict in one paragraph
Shared Bots are the cleanest way I've seen in the docs to give a team one AI teammate without merging everyone's data.
Chats stay private, usage lands on whoever asks, and the Slack integration acts for the right person.
The weak spots are real, though.
Chats where nobody can answer an approval skip Auto-review unless an Enterprise admin locks it on, and many of the best admin controls are Enterprise only.
Use it if you're on a Cursor team and live in Slack.
Wait if you need hard spend caps or strict approvals on a self-serve plan.
The scorecard: ten criteria rated out of 10
| Criterion | Score | Why, from the docs |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | 8 | A one-sentence job plus card-by-card setup for apps, secrets, skills and files. |
| Access control | 9 | Whole team, People you invite, or Only you, with Limit access confirmation. |
| Privacy between teammates | 9 | Owners and Managers can't read anyone's chat, and personal notes stay out of team memory. |
| Roles | 8 | Owner, Manager and Collaborator are clear, though any Manager changes the Bot for everyone. |
| Slack | 8 | Own app and handle, threads, per-person approval cards; each teammate still has to link. |
| Usage fairness | 8 | Each reply bills the person it's answering; no separate Grok Bot spend cap exists today. |
| Admin controls | 7 | Manage Shared Bots and Auto-add are solid, but many switches are Enterprise only. |
| Safety defaults | 6 | Per-person approvals are good; unanswered chats skip Auto-review without Enterprise enforcement. |
| Reach | 5 | Needs a Cursor team, runs only in the cloud, and the docs cover Slack as the team chat. |
| Pace of fixes | 8 | Eight releases from v0.61.0 to v0.78.1 carry Team Bot lines in a single month. |
The average across all ten is 7.6.
No criterion scored below 5, and none scored a perfect 10.
I weighted every criterion equally, because a small team feels a weak spot in any one of them.
Scores reflect the feature as documented on 31 October 2026, not a lab run.
The changelog moves weekly, so expect the lower scores to shift first.
What Shared Bots are, and how fast they changed
A Bot is either personal or shared.
A shared Bot is one Bot that the owner opens to the whole team, or to chosen people and groups, the way you'd share a doc.
Sharing doesn't create copies.
That's what separates it from a Bot template, which gives each recipient a copy on their own account.
The changelog shows how quickly the feature filled out:
- v0.61.0, 26 Sep: Team Bots launch, with private chats, per-person notes, own allowance and Slack threads.
- v0.64.0, 30 Sep: the creator can add Managers.
- v0.75.2, 22 Oct: owners and Managers can let Collaborators create routines.
- v0.75.8, 24 Oct: people off the share list lose access until shared, teammates included.
- v0.77.0, 26 Oct: linked teammates use their own connectors and memory.
- v0.78.1, 27 Oct: team Vault logins, the Only you option and the "Shared Bots" admin page.
That's fast iteration, and it's why Pace of fixes scores an 8.
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Strength: privacy that holds up inside a team (9/10)
This is the best-designed part of the feature.
Nobody else on the team can open your conversation with a shared Bot, owner and Managers included.
The Bot can save team knowledge, but it tells you when it does.
It doesn't save anything about you personally for the team.
Connected accounts follow the same logic: an account always acts as the person the Bot is answering, and one teammate's connection is never used for someone else.
I knocked off a point because secrets and files the owner adds are visible to the Bot in every chat, so privacy depends on the owner adding the right things.
Strength: access control with three clear levels (9/10)
In Share this Bot, the owner chooses the whole team or People you invite.
Narrowing access asks for a Limit access confirmation, and v0.78.1 added Only you.
Roles sit on top: Collaborator to chat, Manager to change instructions, skills, memory and apps.
The error messages are also specific, from No Access to This Bot to Bot Not Found, which saves support time.
It's close to perfect for a team tool.
Strength: Slack that acts for the right person (8/10)
A shared Bot gets its own Slack app and handle once the owner or a Manager chooses Connect.
In a channel thread or DM, it acts for the teammate who mentioned it, and replies land in the same thread.
Approvals stay personal: the Review an action card can only be answered by the person who asked.
The collaboration docs show it can hand work to that teammate's own Bots, which a personal Bot can't do from a channel.
It loses two points for friction.
A Slack workspace admin may need to approve the app, and every teammate has to link their account before the Bot works fully for them.
Strength: usage lands on the person asking (8/10)
A shared Bot reply uses the Grok Bot usage of whoever it's answering, in the app, in Slack and in group chats.
That stops one owner's allowance draining because twenty people use their Bot.
Owners still cover their personal messages, and anything posted by Slack apps or workflows that lack a linked account.
The teams docs are clear that there's no separate Grok Bot spend cap today, which is the missing point and a half.
The billing messages are clear about whose usage ran out.
Your usage limit has been reached means the teammate's own usage, while This Bot's owner has reached their usage limit points at the owner.
For plans, The X Subscription includes Grok Bot on Premium, Super and Ultra, not Plus.
Limit: the Auto-review gap in unanswered chats (6/10)
This is the finding that pulled Safety defaults down.
According to the Enforce Auto-review section, a shared Bot skips Auto-review in any chat where no person is able to approve.
Enforce Auto-review fixes it, but it's Enterprise only and off by default.
On a self-serve Teams plan, the safer move is to keep risky jobs out of unattended threads entirely.
The rest of the safety model is sound.
From v0.77.0, anyone who hasn't linked is kept away from the owner's sign-ins and private data, and Slack posts get checked against each reader's access.
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Limit: the strongest admin switches are Enterprise only (7/10)
Every admin gets Manage Shared Bots, with an Access column and Auto-add for the whole team or chosen groups.
Team Rules, Page sharing, Execution on Local Computer and public template sharing also work outside Enterprise.
But Network Controls, Action Recording, audit logs, Team Secrets, Enforce Auto-review and team Auto-review rules are all marked Enterprise only.
A ten-person firm on Teams gets the basics, not the audit trail.
Limit: one Manager or one delete affects everyone (8/10 on roles)
Managers change the Bot for every teammate at once.
That's the point of a shared Bot, and also the risk.
Deletion is harsher.
When the owner deletes a shared Bot, teammates lose it along with their chats and routines on it, and the docs say it can't be undone.
Admins can delete it from the dashboard too, which also removes its Slack app.
I'd want a soft delete here.
Limit: a Cursor team and the cloud are required (5/10)
The docs say shared Bots are for members of a Cursor team who have Grok Bot.
They also always run in the cloud, so a Bot on your own computer can't be shared.
Slack is the team chat the Shared Bots page documents in detail.
If your team runs on another chat tool, the shared-Bot features documented here aren't written for it.
The computer setup adds one more wrinkle.
In your own chat, a shared Bot usually works on your Grok Bot computer, with your files and the sites you're signed in to there.
In Slack channels, threads and group chats, it switches to one shared computer of its own.
If your privacy mode is stricter than the owner's, the chat can't run on your computer at all.
That's sensible design, but it's one more thing a team lead has to explain.
That narrow reach is the lowest score on the card.
Who should use Grok Bot teams
- Teams already on a Cursor team plan who want one AI teammate everyone can reach.
- Businesses that run day to day in Slack channels.
- Owners who need shared logins without sharing passwords, using the Bot's own Vault from v0.78.1.
- Enterprise teams that can switch on Enforce Auto-review and Action Recording.
Who shouldn't use it yet
- Solo operators, who get the same value from a personal Bot.
- Teams that need a hard per-product spend cap.
- Self-serve teams planning unattended jobs that touch money or customers.
- Teams that want to pick or see the model, since the Grok Bot FAQ says there's no model picker.
Final verdict: 7.6/10, a strong team tool with two gaps to watch
Shared Bots get the hard parts right: privacy, per-person usage and Slack that acts for the person asking.
They fall short on safety for unattended chats outside Enterprise and on reach beyond Cursor teams.
Turn it on for one team, keep approvals strict, and recheck the changelog monthly, because it's moving fast.
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FAQ: Grok Bot Teams Verdict
What is the overall score for Grok Bot teams?
7.6 out of 10, the average of ten criteria. Privacy and access control scored highest at 9, and reach scored lowest at 5.
What's the biggest weakness of Shared Bots?
The docs say shared Bots in chats where nobody can answer an approval run without Auto-review unless Enforce Auto-review is on, and that switch is Enterprise only.
Is a shared Bot the same as a Bot template?
No. A shared Bot's link opens the same Bot for everyone, while a template gives each person their own copy.
When did Team Bots launch?
Team Bots launched in Grok Bot v0.61.0 on 26 September 2026. The docs and the v0.78.1 admin page now call them Shared Bots.
Can admins delete a shared Bot?
Yes, from Manage Shared Bots in the Cursor dashboard. It removes the Bot and its Slack app for the whole team and can't be undone.
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