Grok Bot

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Grok is xAI's conversational assistant on the web and related chat surfaces. Grok Bot is that chat agent: it can write markdown you then save and review, but it is not the local coding harness.

It does not load ~/.grok/skills the way Grok Build does, and it does not spawn local MCP. The loop is: save the file the bot produced, watch it with the CLI, send the link, and either paste @agent work back or continue in Grok Build.

A shorter product page lives at Use with Grok Bot.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

You need the binary on the machine where the markdown file will live. Reviewers never install this.

2. Save what Grok Bot wrote

Copy the plan (or export the markdown) into a file in your project:

mkdir -p plans
# paste or save the bot output as plans/rollout.md

If you are already in Grok Build, skip this page and use Grok Build. That harness loads the Gander skill and can run MCP itself.

3. Sign up and watch the file

gander signup --email [email protected]
gander watch plans/rollout.md

Send the printed https://gander.md/s/… URL. The file stays on your machine. Every save updates the link.

Local-only preview, no account:

gander plans/rollout.md --watch

4. Review and act

Reviewers comment in the browser. Prefix @agent when the next edit should come from an agent.

Grok Bot chat will not see MCP tools. Pick one:

  • Continue in Grok Build on the same file, with gander mcp install and the Gander skill.
  • Run gander comments plans/rollout.md yourself and paste the @agent threads back into Grok Bot.
  • Hand the file to Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode, which can run MCP in-session.

Do not treat unresolved human-to-human threads as agent work. Only comments that start with @agent are a summons.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments

You should see the file, its short URL, and any unresolved @agent count. If you move the work into Grok Build, follow that page for skill and MCP setup.

More: Hosted watch, Comments, Grok Build.