Grok Bot, explained. And the free lane.

• A team of always-on agents. Each one gets its own computer in the cloud.
• It keeps working when your laptop is closed. The job runs in the cloud, not on your machine.
• It signs into your existing tools and websites, even ones with no official bot access.
• It learns your routines. Do a task twice and it saves the pattern, then starts doing it before you ask.
• Bots coordinate. You can run several and assign one as a "chief of staff" that manages the others.
• Built by xAI, running on Cursor's infrastructure. Currently in beta.

Included with these plans paid

• SuperGrok Heavy (xAI's top tier)
• Cursor Ultra
• Cursor Teams Premium
• Companies and enterprise: waitlist only right now waitlist

Ollama actually free

Free app that runs AI models on your own computer. No account, no card, nothing leaves your machine. This is the engine for the setup below.

Claude Code + a free local model free setup

Claude Code is a terminal agent: it reads files, edits code, runs commands. Point it at your own computer instead of the paid API and it runs on the free model you installed with Ollama. Three lines:

// 1. install Ollama, then grab a coding model:
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder

// 2. in settings.json, point Claude Code at your machine:
"env": { "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:11434" }

// 3. that's it. nothing to pay, nothing leaves your desk.

Honest limit: the free local model fits in about 4 GB. Great for small jobs (renames, single functions, explaining code). It will struggle when a task needs many files at once.

n8n, self-hosted free self-hosted

Open-source automation you run yourself. Chain triggers, apps, and AI steps into agent-style workflows (watch inbox, summarize, reply, file). The self-hosted version costs nothing.