The best Grok Bot plugins and skills in 2026: 14 to add first (and what to skip)

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Intro

Grok Bot isn't a chatbot. It's xAI's always-on AI agent, with its own cloud computer that keeps working when you close the app. Here are the fourteen plugins and skills worth adding first.

What Grok Bot is

Grok Bot came out of beta on November second. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with phone apps, and inside Slack, Teams and X. It needs an X Premium subscription, from thirty dollars a month.

Grok vs Grok Build vs Grok Bot

Don't mix up the names. Grok is the chatbot. Grok Build is a coding agent for your terminal. And Grok Bot is the agent that actually does work for you.

Plugins and skills

A plugin connects your Bot to a service, like Gmail. A skill is a saved way of doing a task. To add a plugin, open Connect apps, or just ask your Bot. Plugins come from the Cursor Marketplace.

Start with these five

Start with five. Gmail, Calendar and Drive, or the Microsoft set if you use Outlook. Notion, which comes with fourteen skills. Slack, for channel digests. And a task app, like Todoist or Asana.

For creating

For creating, Canva makes and resizes designs. ElevenLabs does voices, Runway makes video, and Gamma turns notes into slides. Some of these need their own paid account or credits.

Research, shopping and code

For research, Firecrawl and Exa search and read the web. Shop by Shopify buys only after you approve, with a single-use card. And GitHub lets developers trigger routines from new issues.

Teach your own skills

You can also teach your Bot. Ask it to save a method as a skill, or record yourself doing a browser task once, and it drafts the skill. Routines then run it on a schedule.

Safety and India

It asks before sending, buying or deleting, and text in emails can't give it orders. In India, there's no official rupee price yet, and some plugins, like the bank and grocery ones, are aimed at the US.

All fourteen picks, and what to skip, are on geekygoo dot com. The link's in the description.