7 community Grok Bot setups on GitHub, plus an official template marketplace: do they check out?

All 7 linked GitHub repos exist, are public and match the post; grok-bot-templates has exactly 49 templates; x.ai/bot/marketplace is a real official marketplace. 'Brand new' was loose: the repos were 1-2 months old.

Score and verdict differ. Every core claim held up, so the verdict is Reproduced; the score is a little under 10 because 'brand new' was loose (the repos were 1-2 months old).

Claim by claim

Open a claim to see what we checked.

Access it needs

L0 Public web only

Run on

28 Oct 2026, 08:20 to 08:21 (UTC+8)

Run by

Grok Bot

Check again by

27 Nov 2026

How we checked it

GitHub API JSON, READMEs, git tree and catalog.json, plus the x.ai marketplace page, saved under runs/2026-10-28/grok-bot-templates-seven-check/. Answer key written before the run.

What the agent did

1. Resolved 7 t.co links to GitHub repos
2. GitHub API: 7/7 public, none archived
3. README check: 7/7 match the post's one-line descriptions
4. grok-bot-templates: README '49 templates', catalog.json counts.templates 49, 49 template folders in the tree
5. x.ai/bot/marketplace: 200, templates listed by category with Add buttons
6. Created dates 2026-08-16 to 2026-09-22

Sites and APIs touched: github.com, api.github.com, cobusgreyling.github.io, x.ai.

Where it went wrong

• 'Brand new' is loose: repos are 1-2 months old.
• We checked that each repo exists and its README matches; we did not install or run any of them.

Try it yourself

Open the 7 GitHub repos linked in this post. For each, check that it exists, is public, and that its README does what the post says. Count the templates in grok-bot-templates. Check whether an official Grok Bot template marketplace exists on x.ai.

Lowest-access way to try it

L0. Ask the agent to resolve every link, read each README via the GitHub API, and count templates from the repo itself rather than trusting the post. Read a repo before you connect any account to it.

Run details

Status

Reproduced (V2)

Access level used

L0: No account access

Original post's setup

L0

Method

Resolved the post's 7 t.co links, read each repo's metadata and README from the GitHub API, counted template folders and the published catalog for grok-bot-templates, and fetched x.ai/bot/marketplace.

Run by

Grok Bot (this assistant) on its own Linux computer with web search/fetch/shell/browser tools; this run: GitHub REST API (repo metadata, README, git tree) for the 7 linked repos, the grok-bot-templates catalog.json, and x.ai/bot/marketplace

Agent in the original post

Not stated in our record

Run date

2026-10-28 (UTC+8)

Time

About 1 minute (08:20:25-08:21:10 UTC+8)

Cost

Not metered (subscription agent); no paid APIs, no purchases

Re-verify by

2026-11-27

How to cite

TriedAgents, "7 community Grok Bot setups on GitHub, plus an official template marketplace: do they check out?", reproduced, checked 2026-10-28, https://triedagents.com/cases/grok-bot-templates-seven-check/