AI Personal Assistants: Muse, Grok Bot, Cue Usage & Comparisons

Developer Kent C. Dodds says Grok Bot is on fire and asks whether it is the only personal assistant shipping real value at this pace.

The author says weeks of strategy work with Grok Bot produced a 5-minute Bitcoin market bot run by Scout, Trader and Risk roles, netting about $10,774 in 23 days.

A walkthrough shows creating a webhook-triggered routine, copying its POST URL and auth header, then having an external app wake the bot to run it.

A free 19-page handbook generated with Opus 5.5 covering Claude Code's CLAUDE.md, skills and hooks, plus a Grok Bot that catches AI trends before they peak.

A developer tired of opening an app and laptop to talk to Grok Bot built it into iMessage on top of onkeiki, so it can be used straight from texts.

A free community directory lists 690 skills, plugins and MCP links for Grok Bot, with 17 highlighted tools to try.

A user set up a Grok Bot named deals hunter to study brands that pay creators, break down sponsored posts and keep a pitch file, landing four paid brand deals in nine days.

A no-code builder shipped six AI-made projects with 26k views and $6.6k revenue, and tested Hermes, Tab, Grok Bot, Dots and Instinct as personal assistants, finding Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 roughly at parity for building.

The poster says personal agents passed 10M downloads in 40 days with Muse alone, uses Instinct for flights, translations and purchases, and Baselayer verifies agent identity before they spend money.

The author has Grok Bot log into Search Console, Bing and Brave to pull weekly data, separate indexed pages from dead URLs, turn gaps into GitHub issues and push new URLs via IndexNow.

The author argues Grok Bot and similar agents are designed as personal assistants, lacking shared team workspaces, per-agent permissions and governance that real businesses need.

A list of starting prices and subscription requirements for Grok Bot, GPT Dots, Claude Duet, Gemini Spark and Muse, with Muse free.