# Grok Bot Crew Bench

How a friendly AI helper's crew of teammates, shared cloud computer, plugins and approval checks fit together, and how far a mistake could reach\.

By Алексей Воробей

Topic: Computing, AI & Electronics

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## Transcript

### 1. Grok Bot Crew Bench

This glossy white blob is the friendly face of a Grok Bot, an AI helper that can do jobs on a computer for you\. Underneath it sits a whole crew of parts\. Tap the bot, or use the switch, to take it apart and put it back together\.

### 2. Face Shell

The first thing you meet is the Face Shell: a smooth round body with two big slanted eyes\. Round shapes and big eyes make us relax, a bit like looking at a puppy\. That is a design choice, so remember there is software underneath\.

Press Lift to raise the shell and peek inside\.

### 3. AI Teammates

Inside is a crew of nine AI teammates\. Several bots can run at once, pass work to each other and share one job\. Tap any teammate to give it a nudge\.

A bot is software, not a little robot\. These shapes are just faces for it\.

### 4. One Shared Cloud Computer

All the teammates work on one shared computer in the cloud: one virtual machine \(a whole computer made of software\) per person, with its own memory and storage\. Every bot can reach the same files and logins on it\. Switch the power to see work flow out to the whole crew\.

Separate bots are separate helpers, not separate safes\.

### 5. 220 Plugins

Plugins connect the bots to other apps and services\. Asked by a reporter, the bot said about 220 were on offer\. None are switched on until a team allows them, and then every bot on the computer can use them\.

The 220 figure came from the bot itself, not from an official list\.

### 6. Group Chat without you

The teammates talk to each other in a group chat thread and hand jobs back and forth\. You do not have to read every message\. That saves time, and it also means things can happen while you are not watching\.

### 7. Approval Gate

Before a bot sends, publishes, buys or deletes something, the Approval Gate stops it and asks you first\. Passwords and payments are handed back to a person\. A yes lets the action through, but it cannot undo work that was already done\.

The orange teammate is waiting\. Its lamp blinks until you decide\.

### 8. Second\-Model Reviewer

A second, separate AI model can check risky actions before they happen\. Teams choose Ask first or Allow automatically for each kind of action, and when two rules disagree, Ask first wins\.

The reviewer is another AI model, not a person\.

### 9. Blast Radius

The red ring on the floor is the blast radius: everything one person's bots could reach if something went wrong\. Inside it, every bot can touch every file and login on that shared computer\. Other people's computers stay outside the ring\.

### 10. The whole crew, labelled

Here is the bot opened up on the bench: a friendly face, nine teammates, one shared computer, lots of plugins, a chat, two safety checks and the ring around it all\. Tap any part to see its name, or put the bot back together\.