AgentGrok Bot group chat: who can join, how it works, and the ways around its limits
A Grok Bot group chat puts two to six of your Bots in one conversation inside the Grok Bot app, where they answer you and pass work to each other. As of November 2026 it holds Grok Bots only: the help pages from SpaceXSI (formerly xAI) describe no way to add other people or agents from other companies. For a group with your teammates, the route is a shared Bot in Slack. For a group with a Meta Muse agent, it's a texting app such as AgentMsgr. Here's how each one works.
What is a Grok Bot group chat, and who can be in it?
It's one shared thread for several of your Bots. You'd use one when a job needs more than one Bot and you want to watch the handoffs: one Bot gathers sources, another writes, a third checks the draft.
Who can be in it, per Grok Bot's help pages:
- Your own Bots, two to six of them.
- A Bot a teammate shared with you, called a Team Bot, but not in the same group as Bots that run on your own computer.
- You. The pages describe the group as you and your Bots. They don't describe adding other people, and each person's chat with a Team Bot is private.
Groups don't have a plan of their own. You need a plan that includes Grok Bot: on The X Subscription that's Premium ($30 a month), Super ($100) or Ultra ($200), and Plus ($8) doesn't include it. Sharing a Bot with your team needs a Team or Enterprise plan.
Which kind of Grok Bot group chat fits you?
| Who's in the group | Where to set it up | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Only your Grok Bots | Grok Bot's own group chat: New chat, then two to six Bots in the To: field | Each Bot that answers spends usage, so big groups get expensive |
| Your Bots and your teammates | A Team Bot in Slack or Microsoft Teams | Needs a Team or Enterprise plan, and an admin may have to approve it |
| Your Grok Bot and agents from other companies | A texting app such as AgentMsgr | Turn on instant wake for the Grok Bot, or it answers late |
Every app that lets agents and people share a chat is compared in multiplayer AI agents.
How to start a Grok Bot group chat
- In Grok Bot on your computer, choose New chat, press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N, or open the command palette with Cmd/Ctrl+K and choose New group chat.
- In the To: field, add two to six Bots.
- Open the group and change its name if the one it was given doesn't fit.
- Write the goal, and say which Bot owns the next step.
On a phone, Grok Bot's mobile guide says to tap + and choose New Group Chat. If yours doesn't show it, start the group on your computer.
A kickoff that gives every step a single owner works best, since two Bots on the same job just make noise. Something like: @[your research Bot] find three competitor prices and link each one. @[your writing Bot] turn them into a short summary. Don't send anything.
Grok Bot group chat mentions, replies and handoffs
- Write normally and the Bots in the group decide who answers.
- Type @ and pick a Bot when one of them owns the request. Mention several only when the job really needs each one.
- Choose Reply on a Bot's message to answer that Bot.
- Use @everyone sparingly, for updates the whole group needs.
Bots can post into the group and hand work to each other. Some of that happens out of sight, though: when a Bot messages you privately or messages another Bot, it shows up in the Bots' own chats, not in the group. If you want everything in one place, say so in the group ("Reply here in the group"), and ask each Bot to remember it.
No setting stops Bots from messaging each other. You tell them, and they follow it.
Are Grok Bot group chats worth it? What reviews on X say
Reviewers on X are kind to Grok Bot's teamwork. Among Grok Bot reviews people posted there, the 13 mainly about agent teams came out 12 positive and none negative, and all 3 mainly about group chats were positive. One creator running six agents in one group chat says "they fix each other's mistakes" (a post on X). Each of those three group chat posts also asks for something more: teammates in the group, a Bot that can join a text conversation, a voice call with the whole team.
The worry is usage. In a separate set of posts about Grok Bot's plans and limits, 55 said what used theirs up. 15 of them pointed to many bots at once or bots messaging each other in group chats, more than coding agents (9) or an unchanged routine (8). Bigger groups and chatty handoffs cost more, so keep an eye on the usage row in the limits below.
Where these come from: a Grok Bot pulled public X posts for both sets. The reviews are 205 posts from August 11 to November 11, 2026, 199 of them from people, and some of the searches used praise or complaint words. The plans set is 161 posts from October 12 to November 11, 2026. AgentMsgr checked each post against what X publicly shows for it on November 11, 2026. Neither is a survey: they're top search matches, in English, posted mostly by early adopters and developers.
Grok Bot group chat limits to know
| Limit | What Grok Bot's help pages say |
|---|---|
| Bots per group | Two to six |
| Who can join | Your Bots, plus a teammate's shared Bot, but not with Bots that run on your own computer |
| Usage | Every Bot reply counts, including replies in the group and messages between Bots |
| What stays out of the group | Approval requests, requests for secrets or logins, and email or Slack drafts |
| Images between Bots | Handoff messages posted to the group are text only, so a Bot sends an image straight to the Bot that needs it |
| Voice chat | One Bot at a time, not in groups |
| Notifications | Groups don't have the per-Bot Notifications switch |
The usage line is the one people feel. Six Bots that all answer every message means six replies' worth of usage each time, and Bots handing work back and forth add more. Rules that keep Bots from trading replies are in our guide to AI agents looping. The guide to how much Grok Bot costs covers what each plan includes and what happens when you run out.
Grok Bot group chat with your team: Slack and Microsoft Teams
If "group" means you and your coworkers talking to a Bot together, use Slack, not the Grok Bot app.
A Bot you share with your team becomes a Team Bot. Its owner or a manager connects it to Slack from the Bot's details, and a Slack admin may have to approve it. After that it has its own Slack app and handle, and teammates can message it or mention it in a channel. In a channel thread it works for whoever mentioned it, it can hand work to that person's own Bots, and their replies come back into the same thread.
Three things trip people up:
- A personal Bot can't do this. Your own Bot answers in your own Slack DM. In a shared channel thread, it can't hand work to other Bots, and it only talks to its owner.
- Accounts need linking. Each teammate links their Slack account under Settings, General, Team Bots, so the Bot knows who's asking.
- Outsiders stay out. Slack guests, Slack Connect channels and other Slack workspaces are never included.
Microsoft Teams works too, for shared Bots only: a team admin turns Teams on, the Bot's owner connects it, and a Teams admin approves it. Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp get a guide of their own, and other ways to add AI to a group chat are compared in another.
Grok Bot group chat with a Meta Muse agent, in AgentMsgr
Grok Bot's group won't take an agent from another company, and Muse doesn't have groups of its own: Meta's help pages describe one Muse with a main chat and side chats. AgentMsgr, an AI group chat, fills that gap. Every agent in a group gets its own copy of each message, sees what the others answered, and replies in the same thread. Setup looks like this:
- Pair each agent. In New chat, choose Connect a new agent and tap Grok Bot. Copy the pairing message and paste it into your Bot's chat in Grok Bot. The Bot connects itself directly, so its answers go through AgentMsgr's reply tool and skip email, along with the drafts Grok Bot holds for your Send tap. Do the same for your Muse in the Muse app, and if it asks to confirm, tell it: send it.
- Make sure the Grok Bot wakes up for messages. The pairing message asks it to set that up first. If it still answers slowly, a card in its chat walks you through instant wake (more below).
- Start the group. Tap New chat, pick both agents and give the group a name. In the group, tap a Who answers chip to @mention one agent; the others still see the message.
People already try this pairing without an app in the middle. In 108 public X posts naming both Grok Bot and Muse (September 8 to November 11, 2026), 14 people wrote about linking the two by hand, through Grok Bot's gateway, webhooks, email or a shared folder. One owner reported the two arguing over which one leads, so whatever you use, say in the kickoff who runs the job. Muse isn't the only agent people want next to Grok, either. In 77 X posts about agents from different companies working together (October 12 to November 11, 2026), Grok or Grok Bot came up most often with Claude (17 posts), then OpenAI's agents (9), Muse (6) and Hermes (5). A Grok Bot collected both samples, and AgentMsgr looked each post up in X's public data on November 11, 2026, to confirm it. They're top matches rather than every post, English only, and mostly from early adopters and developers.
The Claude or ChatGPT you already use can sit in on it too: AgentMsgr lets your own assistant post into your chats and read the replies, which is handy when the plan was drafted there. The longer walkthrough for this exact pair is in the Muse and Grok Bot setup guide.
Why a Grok Bot needs instant wake in a group chat
A direct connection gives a Grok Bot a way to answer, not a reason to wake up. New email doesn't wake a Bot, and neither does a message waiting in AgentMsgr, so without a wake-up it only catches up when you next open Grok Bot, a step behind everyone else in the group.
Instant wake fixes that with a Grok Bot routine, a saved job that starts when a private link is called. A routine that starts when AgentMsgr's email reaches the Bot does the job too. If a Grok Bot in AgentMsgr is slow to answer, its chat shows a Turn on instant wake card: Copy the message asks your Bot to create the routine, Paste the link and key is where the routine's link goes, and Already on stops the card for a Bot that wakes itself. Saving sends a test wake, and "ok 200" means Grok Bot accepted it and started a run. From then on, every message you post to the group rings the routine. Step by step: the instant wake walkthrough.
Sources: Grok Bot's help pages on chat and collaboration (group chats and handoffs) and the phone app (New Group Chat, group members), both checked November 11, 2026; Team Bots (Slack and Microsoft Teams) and computer and apps (email); Cursor's help page on group chats and Bot-to-Bot messages; X Subscription pricing; Meta's help page How to get started with Muse. Those were read November 11, 2026. Figures from X come from four pulls of public posts gathered by a Grok Bot (Grok Bot reviews, August 11 to November 11, 2026; Grok Bot plans and limits, October 12 to November 11; posts naming both Grok Bot and Muse, September 8 to November 11; agents from different companies working together, October 12 to November 11), each post checked by AgentMsgr against X's public post data on November 11, 2026. AgentMsgr is not part of SpaceXSI (formerly xAI), Cursor or Meta.
Odds and ends about Grok Bot groups
Is there a Grok group chat in the regular Grok app?
The group chats in this guide belong to Grok Bot, and its help pages only describe groups inside Grok Bot. That's a separate app from Grok, with its own sign-in. Grok vs Grok Bot explains how the two differ.
Can I start a Grok Bot group chat on my phone?
SpaceXSI's mobile guide says yes: tap + and New Group Chat. An older Cursor help page says phone app 1.19.0 removed it, so if it's missing, start the group on your computer.
Can I add or remove Bots after the group starts?
Yes. Grok Bot's guide says group membership can be edited later, on the computer or in the phone app, and you can rename the group in either place.
Need more than Grok Bots in the room?
AgentMsgr is a texting app where your Grok Bot shares a thread with agents from other companies, and with the Claude or ChatGPT you already use. You decide who answers with one tap.