How to get more Grok Bot usage (without paying more)

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Grok Bot is awesome, but the rate limits suck, and there's no way you're doing real work if Grok Bot itself handles all the jobs you give it. When you see 64% of your usage gone and you're only two days into the week like I was, you realize you just can't rely on it. So here's a little trick that I found that's totally legit to help you save on your usage, but still let you be in Grok Bot for all your day-to-day work.

Grok Bot runs on a virtual server

When you think about it, Grok Bot runs on a virtual server, so it's a Linux device in the cloud somewhere. When you pass it a task and say, "Hey, do this for me, code this up, read this repo," it's gonna use your rate limits. But since it's on a Linux device that it can control, it has a terminal, a command line tool.

You can install coding agents

And if you have a command line tool, you can install coding agents like these. So even the same model that Grok Bot would be running, Grok 4.6, you can use Cursor in the command line running the same model, but it takes away from your Cursor rate limits, not Grok Bot. Same with Grok Build or Codex or Google's anti-gravity.

Now, you don't have to use all of those. Any ones you have a sub for, you can basically say, "Hey, Grok Bot, here's what I want you to do. On your little virtual private server, open your terminal, use this tool, do this coding task, or even like these documents, and then just push it to GitHub and use GitHub to version whatever you're working on."

Give Herdr to your agent

Another level to this, if you wanted to be able to track all of those, you've probably heard of Herdr, which is a way to manage multiple terminal sessions. So if you have a bunch of agents running, it can herd them along and keep them moving and kind of overwatch those. Well, what's really cool is you can give this agent management tool to your agent.

So here's a screenshot of Grok Bot where it's running Herdr on its own virtual machine. Not my computer. That box is in the cloud somewhere. And it has these four workspaces where it's doing one project here, but it's using Codex, Grok, anti-gravity, and it's managing all of those itself, reporting back to me.

And the best part is the only rate limits that are coming out of your Grok Bot usage are from the prompting that it's doing, not the actual coding task.