Grok Bot Chrome Extension

Ideas Feature Requests
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I’d like Grok Bot to offer an official Chrome extension that lets users send the current page, selected text, screenshots, links and browser context directly to a Bot.

Suggested capabilities:

  • Send the current tab to a Bot
  • Assign a task without opening the desktop app
  • Let the Bot summarize or act on the current page
  • Select which Bot receives the task
  • Track task progress from Chrome
  • Secure, domain-specific permission controls

This would make Grok Bot much more useful for research, lead generation, competitive intelligence and operational workflows outside of coding.

7

their is no official extension yest for grok bot , howver grokbot extension exist only at built in chrome at grok bot app only

i need it to be official and to use it at my native chrome browser optionally

8

Hey, thanks for the feature request. There isn’t a separate Chrome extension for Grok Bot right now, but part of this workflow is already covered:

  • On iOS, you can share a page, link, or selected text from Safari or any app straight into Bot via the share sheet.
  • From anywhere, if you paste a link into the Bot chat, it’ll open the page on its cloud computer and can summarize it or work with it.

The “send the current tab to Bot” flow right from the browser is a solid idea for research, lead gen, and competitive intel. I’ve passed it to the team as feedback. Votes in this thread help us gauge demand, so if it resonates with other users, it’ll show up there.

9

+1, and this is critical for me. I run an e-commerce business with many Grok Bots working every day. Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work can already control my own Chrome tabs and my laptop: I ask them to reconfigure my sales chatbot, ManyChat or WhatsApp, and they do it directly inside the sessions I already have open. With Grok Bot everything runs in the cloud browser, and I have to sign in again to Meta, TikTok and my marketplace accounts several times a day. Please add local Chrome / computer control, or at least ship the Chrome session import and desktop egress routing soon. This feature decides whether I keep using Grok Bot.

10

Hey, thanks for the detailed +1 and the concrete workflow info. Having to constantly log back into Meta, TikTok, and marketplace accounts is genuinely exhausting, so I get why this is critical for you.

Right now, Grok Bot works in a cloud-computer model. Everything, including the browser, runs on its own machine, so it doesn’t support using your local Chrome or controlling your existing logged-in sessions yet. What you’re describing, having the bot act directly in your already logged-in tabs, is a noticeably different scenario than a cloud-first approach, but the direction is clear and useful.

I can’t share a timeline, but voices in this thread directly help us gauge demand. So the more users that chime in with similar cases, the stronger the signal.

If you can share more details about which exact operations you want to run locally, like reconfiguring a chatbot, ManyChat, WhatsApp, and so on, reply here. That context helps a lot.

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Not having a Grok Bot Chrome Extension stops my Grok Bot from being totally useful. I have it reconcile my Quickbooks and it worked fine for a couple of weeks until Quickbooks blocked access. With a Grok Bot Chrome extension I could open the extension and allow Grok Bot to access my local browser just like I currently do with Claude. This way it doesn’t matter what I want Grok Bot to access so long as I have the tab in the group with the Grok Bot extension open.

This feature is especially useful for debugging the web applications I’ve created. Claude and Claude Code can access my website, my GitHub, and my Railway to evaluate what’s going on with the functionality. It’s a huge benefit.

12

Hey @calvinrose18938, thanks for the concrete example. Details like that really help.

With QuickBooks, it’s most likely that the site is flagging the bot’s cloud browser as automated traffic. We saw something similar with Shopify: Shopify store connector. There is a separate feature request for a native QuickBooks connector, and that’s a more reliable path than using the browser. Please add your vote there: Grok Bot: QuickBooks Online as a first-party Cursor MCP connector

Until that connector exists, you can connect QuickBooks as a custom MCP server in Settings > Plugins. That kind of server talks directly to the API, so browser checks don’t get in the way. Just keep in mind that these are third-party solutions, and reliability depends on the specific server.

Bot access to your local browser isn’t supported yet. I’ve passed your use case and the web app debugging scenario on to the team. There’s also a separate thread about local computer use in general, and it’s worth posting there too: Local computer use for Grok Bots

13

This would be super usefull to control Chrome browser, OpenAI, Gemini and Claude all have a way to control chrome on your own machine. For some reason some websites are geo-restricted and don’t work in grok bot for me.

For example I am renovating a bathroom, I want grok to find everything I need to buy, I want it to find all the products on https://www.leroymerlin.fr/ and create a shopping list. It’s for a rental property, it can just pick any item with good reviews, best sellers and good value for money, available in the shop close to me. It does not work on grok cloud.

There are so many things needed, each item takes me 10 min to find manually, compare, understand the differences and look at reviews, I need to compute how many boxes I need for my bathroom size, check it’s suitable for a wet room, etc. grok would save me so much time, there are so many items needed: Tiles, Ventilation, Toilet seat, Glass Pannels, Vanity Unit, Sink, Mirror, Towel Holder, Heater, Water Mixer, Shower, Toilet Paper Holder, Lighting Fixtures, Waterproofing, Silicone, Paint, Plastic Sheeting, Zippered Dust Barrier Door Kit, Masking Tape, Furniture Dust Covers, etc.

I want it to generate the full list, don’t forget anything, pick for me.

I also asked to access some French government websites to fill things for me but there are SSL issues (official french gov website) to fill some very long and boring administrative forms, it works locally with other AI but not with grok in cloud.
https://ecoagri.agriculture.gouv.fr/aleanat/

I can only post two links in my comment on this forum but also “Telepac” doesn’t work (can find on google, and official french gov website for farming)

Grok is the only big AI without local chrome control.

14

Hey @pedroducongo, thanks for the detailed repair example. It makes it much clearer what’s needed.

The bot can’t control your local Chrome yet. It runs in a browser on its own cloud computer. But for sites that block the cloud browser, try this: in the Grok Bot desktop app, open Settings > Computer and turn on Route traffic through this computer. Then the bot browser’s traffic will go through your computer’s network and IP, and sites like leroymerlin.fr will see your normal connection. More details: Connect to private networks | Cursor Docs

There’s no guarantee it’ll work. Some sites block automated browsers no matter what IP is used. But this is usually the first thing worth trying.

For the SSL errors on ecoagri and Telepac, please send:

  • the exact error text or a screenshot from the bot browser
  • whether the error still happens after turning on Route traffic through this computer
  • your Grok Bot version from Support > About

I’ve passed the local browser control request to the team. The broader discussion about local computer use is here, please vote there too: Local computer use for Grok Bots

Let me know if that setting helped.