SpaceXAI just made Grok Bot templates shareable. I had early access to the feature, meaning I published / shared my first Grok Bot before the feature went live. In this post I’ll walk you trough the process of creating and sharing your own. But before that, be aware the SpaceXAI confirmed a marketplace for bots will be up and running as early as next week.
I already called Grok Bot the iPhone moment for agents. Not because any of its parts were brand new. In the case of the iPhone: the music player, the computer and the phone — they all existed before. But the way they were put together created a product with its own class. The same thing was true for Grok Bot, but now we have even more evidence. What App Store was to iPhone, the upcoming bot marketplace could be for Grok Bot.
Shareable templates it’s what makes this possible.
Anything you build inside the app — give it a job, let it grow a routine — can now be packaged, shared and it gets its own link. Someone else opens that link and drops the bot into their own Grok Bot. It’s that simple.
I walked through it with something I named Outbid Mania. There’s nothing fancy about the name, I was just curious to observe the phenomenon behind it. The entire specification was just the prompt: look at outbid.lol, look at the clones, get revenue for both, and then — this is the part that matters — tell me if the virality is real or just noise. I asked for raw data but also a personal opinion. I wanted to see how Grok bot will change its opinion if something had happened.
Then I waited.
It quickly figured out the concept. It went online, it fetched the data, then it sets up a routine by itself: a dashboard every morning around 6:30. That routine is “embedded”, it travels with the shared bot. That’s why routines are not a cute extra. They’re part of the product you hand someone.
After its first pass, it thought the virality was big. Second pass, the data moved and it changed its mind. That’s the behavior I want from an agent. And that’s exactly what I expect in general, a little bit of opinion and judgement.
Publishing is the part that should have been complicated but, surprisingly, it isn’t. You just tap the agent name in the corner, then scroll, then publish / share your agent. Deceptively simple. You get a unique link and that’s where the bot lives. If you paste the link in a browser you get a product page: title, what it does, a button to add it to your own install. It’s almost like a stripped down App Store.
Claude’s ecosystem tried to do this with artifacts. They didn’t quite pick up. Maybe too complicate? A Grok Bot template is a URL and a preview. That’s closer to how people actually send things to each other.
Now, my agent was fairly simple, just a prompt and nothing else. But try to think what happens when you put the template next to plugins and connectivity and the usage surface explodes. You can ask the bot to watch Tesla or Apple or Nvidia shares and then get an alert when price crosses a certain threshold. You can even give the bot a budget and tell it to act certain levels.
I don’t see this stopping anywhere soon: the limit is whatever people will invent.
So invent. If you find a template worth existing — a watcher, a researcher, a morning briefing, a thing that files PRs while you sleep — put the idea in the comments on the video. Share the ones that work. When the marketplace is up I’ll drop a short tutorial here.
The iPhone moment was never “brand new stuff.” It was “this just works, and now other people can have the same object.” Templates are how Grok Bot evolves to its own App Store.
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