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How to create and share a Team Bot with your coworkers
A Team Bot is a Bot you own and publish to your Cursor team, so everyone on the team can chat with it. Each person's chat with it stays private. It's a good fit for things like an onboarding helper, a policy question answerer or a shared reporting assistant. Here is how it works, based on the official help pages.
How do I create a Team Bot?
- Choose New chat (the + button) in the sidebar, then Create new Team Bot. If you don't see that option, Team Bots aren't on for your team yet.
- Tell the new Bot what it should help the team with. A sentence is enough.
- Follow its setup steps. It asks for plugins, then secrets, then files. Only add keys and files you're happy for the whole team to use.
- Click the Bot's name at the top of the chat to give it a clear name and a description under About. Teammates can't see a Team Bot that still has the default name and no description.
- When the Bot shows a card saying it's ready, choose Publish to team. The card also lets you copy the Bot's link to send to people.
- Teammates find it under New chat, then Team Bots, or by opening the link you sent.
Questions
Can I turn a Bot I already have into a Team Bot?
Yes. Open the Bot's Share menu and choose Publish to team. It makes a separate team copy and walks you through which secrets, memories and routines to bring. Your personal Bot keeps working, and its chats don't move.
Can the owner read my chats with a Team Bot?
No. Each person's chat is private, including from the owner. The Bot can save things it learns for the whole team and tells you when it does, but it doesn't save personal details about you for the team.
Whose plugins and secrets does it use?
The owner's, for everyone. In your own chat it can also use your plugins, but it asks first with an Allow card (Allow once, Always allow, or Skip). A connected account always acts as the person the Bot is answering.
Who pays for the usage?
The person chatting. When you chat with a teammate's Team Bot, it uses your Grok Bot usage, not the owner's.
Does a Team Bot ask for approval before acting?
Only in the owner's own chat. In teammates' chats, Slack and group chats there's no one to answer an approval card, so it works within the permissions the owner set up. It still asks before using your personal accounts.
How do I add it to Slack?
After publishing, the owner clicks the Bot's name, finds Bring to your team's Slack and chooses Connect. If it says Awaiting admin approval, a Slack workspace admin has to approve the app. Then teammates can message or mention it.
How do I stop sharing it?
Click the Bot's name at the top of the chat and choose Unpublish. Teammates lose access until you publish it again.
Can a Bot that runs on my own computer be a Team Bot?
No. Team Bots always run in the cloud.