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Grok Bot vs Cursor: How To Run Both In Your Agent OS, With 5 Copy-Paste Prompts

By Julian Goldie · 6 November 2026 · agentos.guide

Grok Bot vs Cursor inside your Agent OS is a question of routing: Cursor takes anything that ends in a commit, Grok Bot takes the errands across your apps, and your own agent decides which job goes where.

They already share a foundation, because the Grok Bot docs say it signs in with your Cursor account and has no login of its own.

The Bots' computers sit in Cursor's cloud too, as the Grok Bot overview states.

This guide gives you a quick start, five prompts to paste, and a weekly rhythm.

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Who does what

How the two connect

Grok Bot runs on Cursor's infrastructure, so the link is built in.

According to the Teams and Enterprise page, a Bot can delegate coding tasks to Cursor cloud agents on separate computers, under the Cloud Agent controls you already have.

When that agent finishes, the Bot copies the files from its final report into its reply.

Meanwhile, every Bot you own works on the same single cloud machine, each on a separate screen of its own.

Cursor's cloud agents each get an isolated VM with your repo, dependencies and secrets.

That split is useful: the Bot keeps the long-running context about your customers, while each cloud agent starts clean for one coding job.

Quick start in five moves

1. Install Cursor and sign in with your Cursor account.
2. Install the Grok Bot desktop app and sign in with that same account.
3. In Cursor, set Settings → Agents → Approvals & Execution to Auto-review.
4. Ask an admin to connect your Git provider so cloud agents can start from your repo.
5. Create one Bot with one job, and add an Ask first rule for sending and publishing.

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Guardrails to set before the first prompt

Set the limits first, so every prompt below lands inside them.

In Cursor, keep Run Modes on Auto-review and leave Run Everything switched off.

Add a project rule in .cursor/rules as an .mdc file that names the folders an agent must never touch.

In Grok Bot, list your Ask first actions in the approvals settings: sending, publishing, deleting and anything that changes permissions.

Connect only the apps a Bot needs, because every connected app is available to all of your Bots.

Keep client files in clearly named folders on the shared computer, since every Bot can open them.

Prompt 1: brief a Cursor cloud agent

Have your Agent OS write this brief from your notes, then paste it into a cloud agent from cursor.com/agents or the desktop app.

The agent clones the repo, works on its own branch and pushes the change back for you to review.

Work on a new branch in this repo.
Goal: fix the contact form so it shows a clear error when the email field is empty.
First, run the existing tests and tell me what fails.
Then make the smallest change that fixes it, add one test for the empty-email case, and run the full suite.
Open a pull request with a short summary.
Do not touch the payment or login code.

If the change is large, start in Plan Mode with Shift+Tab, so you can edit the plan before any code is written.

Prompt 2: give Grok Bot its first job

Your job is Inbox Assistant for my business.
Every weekday at 8am, read new emails in my inbox from the last 24 hours.
Sort them into: booking requests, supplier messages, and everything else.
For booking requests, check my calendar and draft a reply offering two free slots.
Leave every reply as a draft for me to approve.
Do not send, delete or archive anything.

Grok Bot turns that into a routine, and routines run in the cloud while your laptop is closed.

Run it once by hand first, check the drafts, and only then let it run on the schedule.

If a reply is off, tell the Bot what to change, and it carries the correction into the next run.

Prompt 3: a routine that watches the repo

Set up a routine that runs when a pull request is merged in our website repo on GitHub.
Read the pull request title, description and changed files.
Write a three-sentence update in plain English for a non-technical client.
Post it as a draft in our #client-updates Slack channel for me to review.
Never approve or merge pull requests.

The v0.78.1 entry in the Grok Bot changelog adds a guardrail here: a reviewing Bot uses your access and won't approve PRs you authored (changelog).

Prompt 4: hand a bug from the Bot to a cloud agent

A customer reported that the booking page shows the wrong opening hours on mobile.
Delegate the fix to a Cursor cloud agent on our website repo.
Ask it to reproduce the bug, fix it on a branch, run the tests and open a pull request.
When it finishes, attach the screenshots from its report and draft a reply to the customer.
Wait for my approval before sending.

On the Cursor side, Bugbot reviews that pull request when it is pushed, or when someone comments bugbot run.

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This is the prompt where the two tools meet: the Bot owns the customer, the cloud agent owns the code, and you approve both ends.

Prompt 5: the Friday handover

Every Friday at 4pm, summarise this week for me.
List the pull requests merged in our repo and what each one changed.
List the emails you drafted and which ones are still waiting for me.
Flag anything stuck or blocked.
Save the summary as a file and message me a link to it.

Your Agent OS can read that file on Monday morning and turn the open items into the week's first briefs.

A bakery's week, step by step

1. Monday: the Inbox Assistant drafts replies to wholesale order emails and the owner approves them over coffee.
2. Tuesday: the owner asks the Agent OS for a cloud agent brief to add a new seasonal range to the website.
3. Wednesday: the cloud agent opens a pull request, Bugbot comments on it, and the web freelancer merges it.
4. Thursday: the repo routine drafts a short note for the shop's Slack about the new page.
5. Friday: the handover file lands, and the owner clears the last drafts.

Nothing in that week needs the owner to open a code editor, and nothing reaches a customer without a tap on approve.

The freelancer only sees pull requests, and the owner only sees drafts, so each person reviews the part they understand.

A daily rhythm that keeps both tools honest

Morning: read the Bot's drafts first, approve what is right, and reply with corrections for the rest.

Midday: ask your Agent OS to turn any bug reports into cloud agent briefs, and start them before lunch.

Afternoon: review the pull requests, read the Bugbot comments, and merge only what passes your tests.

Evening: let the routines run on their own, because neither tool needs your laptop open to keep working.

Once a week, prune connected apps and old files on the shared computer, so no Bot holds more access than its job needs.

Every few weeks, save any process that has gone smoothly as a skill or a rule, so the next run starts from a better baseline.

Which to reach for

• Reach for Cursor when the result is code, a pull request or a deployed internal app.
• Reach for Grok Bot when the result is a draft, a filled sheet, a calendar entry or a finished web task.
• Use both when a job crosses the line, and let the Bot pass the code part to a cloud agent.

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For the same routing with OpenAI's agent, see Grok Bot vs Codex in your Agent OS.

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FAQ

Can my Agent OS talk to both tools?

Your Agent OS writes the briefs and keeps the log. You paste the briefs into a Cursor cloud agent or a Grok Bot chat.

Does Grok Bot need its own account?

No. It signs in with your Cursor account, and the Bot computers run in Cursor's cloud.

Should a Bot approve pull requests?

No. Keep merging with a person. The Grok Bot changelog says Bots never approve your own pull request.

Where do I start a Cursor cloud agent?

From the desktop app, cursor.com/agents, the iOS app, Slack with @cursor, a GitHub comment, Linear or the API.

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