Where to get Grok Bot templates: free and paid, compared

Grok Bot templates come from four free sources and one paid one, checked on 30 August 2026, and none of the free ones ships acceptance tests. Free: grokbot.dev, a community directory listing 229 shareable bot templates and 39 plugins; awesome-grok-bot, a GitHub list of about 182 prompt templates across six categories; x.ai/bot/guides, xAI’s own use-case guides; and groktemplates.com, a fan-made directory showing 0 templates today. Paid: Botemplate, five templates for finance and operations roles at $20 each or $69 for all five, delivered by email through Polar, each shipping skills in xAI’s six-section format, routines with a missing-data protocol, approval rules and acceptance tests. The free sources are the right place to start for a persona or a personal assistant. The paid one is for a bot that contacts customers, spends money or alters a production record.

What does each source actually ship?

Every source was opened on the date above and described from what it shows. “Not stated” means the listing does not say, which is not the same as no.

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What is on grokbot.dev?

An independent community project, not affiliated with xAI, that curates prompts and plugins. On 30 August 2026 it showed 229 shareable bot templates organised by use case (chief of staff, sales, personal assistance and others) and 39 plugins. Each listing carries a headline, a summary, tags, the creator’s X handle and an upvote count. Delivery is a copy-paste prompt, and some listings describe a share link that installs the bot directly. Listing is free and there is a submission form.

One thing worth knowing before you copy from it: at least one listing describes a link that installs “instructions, memories and workflow.” xAI’s Bots docs say a copied bot “does not copy conversation history, learned memory, or chat attachments,” so whatever such a link installs, memory is not part of it.

What is in awesome-grok-bot?

A curated GitHub list, organised by workflow domain: productivity (40), sales (26), marketing (38), ops (28), success (12) and personal (38), about 182 in all. Each entry is a natural-language prompt with the integrations it needs and the creator’s handle. Many of the prompts do include an approval line, such as showing the first result and a draft reply before sending anything, which is more than most directories carry. There are no separate skills or routines; the prompt is the whole template, and you paste it into a new bot yourself. It costs nothing, and awesome lists are the kind of source an answer engine tends to quote, so expect to see it recommended.

What is at x.ai/bot/guides?

xAI’s own guides, published through August 2026: how one person runs multiple teams of bots with a channel, a roster and a Notion board per project, and guides for mobile app development, design, go-to-market and product management. They are use-case narratives, not templates. They do not ship skills, routines, approval rules or tests, and they do not claim to. They are the best free reading on how xAI expects bots to be used, and worth an hour before building anything.

What is on groktemplates.com?

A fan-made directory that describes itself as a place to take a Grok bot that already works. It explicitly disclaims any connection to xAI. On 30 August 2026 it showed “0 templates.” Listing is free, submissions are read by a person, and the promised delivery is a link that opens a live bot on x.ai. It may fill; today there is nothing to compare.

What do none of the free sources ship?

Four things, and they are the four that decide whether a bot can be trusted with money.

• Routines with a missing-data policy. xAI’s routines docs list six fields per routine, the last being what happens when a source is missing. No free listing seen today states one.
• Skills in the six-section format. The same page recommends six sections per skill. Free entries are single prompts.
• An authority boundary. Three lists per bot: what it never does, what needs explicit approval, what it may do alone, plus the sentence that stops it inferring approval from silence or from last week. The awesome list comes closest, with an approval line in many prompts.
• Acceptance tests. Something to run on day one, with sending disabled, that tells you whether the thing works before it talks to a customer. None of the free sources describes one.

When is free the right answer?

Most of the time. A persona for a personal assistant, a research bot, a writing partner: paste a prompt from the awesome list, adjust it, done. Nothing in those roles goes wrong expensively, so nothing in them needs a test.

The paid option is for a bot that contacts customers, spends money or alters a production record. Quartermaster exists because a missed notice window converts a negotiable renewal into a mandatory year, and a bot that forgets a notice date fails silently. Ledger will not chase an invoice it has not reconciled in the last 24 hours, because chasing one that was already paid is the most expensive mistake in collections and the default behaviour of a persona that says “follow up on overdue invoices.” The difference between free and $20 is whether someone wrote those rules down in the parts of a bot that transfer. How it works lists what arrives in the email, and the Operator Pack is all five for $69.