Grok Bot command line: control your bots by SMS and voicemail
A Google Voice number plus Gmail gives Grok Bots an SMS and voicemail interface, so you can send commands from a flip phone or pay phone and get urgent text alerts back.
Your Grok Bots now answer to a text message and voice mails. Even from a flip phone. Or a pay phone! I built Grok Bot Command Line so you can run all your Grok Bots without opening an app, without data, and without Wi-Fi. If your phone can send a text or leave a voicemail, you're in. Get it now: https://x.ai/bot/PKtdrwJNC54pLQIAT3H60 Here's how it works. You get a free Google Voice number (a work around until Grok get a phone number), connect your Gmail, and pick a secret word the bot hold for you. From then on you can text or call that number, say your word and what you need, and Grok Bot handles it and texts you back. Some places this matters: 📡 Your Starlink or home internet is down, but you've got one bar of cell signal. Text "what's on my calendar tomorrow” or “run my routine” and get your day back by SMS. 🎣 You're out fishing with nothing but a flip phone. Leave a voicemail: "add dinner with Mike Friday at 7." Done. 🚗 You're driving. Call, speak your command hands-free, and hang up. Grok Bot takes it from there. 📞 You took the trip to Patagonia and needed to have some stuff done. You have no connections but an old payphone. 🔋 It's a battery-saver day, a festival, or a dead zone with no apps. You still have full command of every bot you run. Once that text channel is open, it works both ways. You command your bots, and your bots can reach you when something is critical. And this is BIG you can set up any of your Grok Bots to text you when there is something urgent. It is quite amazing and has saved me and a few clients already. It's built to be safe: • It only listens to your own cell number, plus your secret word. • There are three permission levels. Simple lookups run instantly. Actions you pre-approve run and then confirm. Anything involving money, deleting, contacting someone new, or that just seems off waits for your tap in the Grok Bot app. It never runs from a text. • Your secret word is never shown or repeated, and command messages are wiped after they're handled. • Texts are capped at 20 a day and spaced 30 minutes apart. This can change but it’s to protect Google from caring too much. No new phone, no texting plan, no hardware. Google Voice is free. Today you can text it, or call in and leave a voicemail command. Coming soon, Grok Bot calls you back. This is the worse it is and man it is useful. Grab the template and set it up in a few minutes. Get it here: https://x.ai/bot/PKtdrwJNC54pLQIAT3H60 I can say this just may be the most useful way to use voicemail and old school text.