Run a personal assistant for flights, newspapers and summaries

A user's Grok Bot plans flights, fetches newspapers via library login, checks store stock, and sends event and weather summaries; voice, permissions and coding worked poorly. · Oct 29, 2026

What They Did

The commenter set up Grok Bot a few days earlier and created bots/personas rather than channels. They gave it their library login so it fetches newspapers daily instead of them clicking through the app. When it needed a GitLab token, it opened a box to save the credential. They also used it for flights, store stock checks, and regular event and weather summaries.

How It Went

Flight planning, newspaper access, stock checks and scheduled summaries worked, with no screwups seen. Voice calls felt non-realtime, the natural-language permission settings did nothing, and it couldn't drive Claude or code as well as Opus in Claude Code.

Worth Knowing

Handing it credentials, like a library login, is what makes the newspaper task work; don't rely on its auto-allow permission form, which had no effect.