{"slug": "elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots", "title": "Elie Steinbock launches Bot Directory for one-prompt Grok Bots", "summary": "Elie Steinbock, founder of Inbox Zero, launched Bot Directory on August 17th, a searchable catalog of prompts for Grok Bot that lets users create agents for tasks like email triage, sales follow-up, and software development. The directory, which had over 100 entries by August 18th, is stored as markdown files in a public GitHub repository and accepts contributions via pull requests or X posts, with an agent automating the intake process. Bot Directory is free and MIT-licensed, but offers 15 monthly sponsor positions at $800 each, with 10 already taken as of August 18th.", "body_md": "[Elie Steinbock (@elie2222)](https://x.com/elie2222) launched [Bot Directory](https://botdirectory.ai/) on August 17th, giving Grok Bot users a searchable catalog of prompts for creating agents that handle jobs including email triage, sales follow-up, customer support and software development.\n\nSteinbock introduced the project [in a thread on X](https://x.com/elie2222/status/2089466150417514631), describing it as a home for the bot configurations users had been sharing across the platform. Each listing contains a prompt designed to be pasted into [Grok Bot](https://x.ai/bot), which can sign into services, operate software and return completed work.\n\nThe directory packages those configurations as reusable starting points. A daily briefing prompt, for example, tells the agent to connect to Google Calendar and Slack, establish a weekday schedule and produce a test run before saving the setup. Other entries cover sales forecasting, support queues, recruiting, travel booking and engineering work across tools such as Gmail, Salesforce, GitHub, Linear and Notion.\n\nThe live catalog showed more than 100 entries on August 18th, split across productivity, sales, marketing, operations, customer success and personal tasks. Users can filter the listings by integration or copy a prompt directly from an individual entry.\n\nSteinbock is the founder of [Inbox Zero](https://www.getinboxzero.com), an open-source AI email assistant, and has repeatedly used public code as a distribution channel for his products. His [GitHub profile](https://github.com/elie222) also lists projects including an open-source software directory and AI development tools. Before Inbox Zero, Steinbock built Draft Fantasy, a fantasy football product, and Skilled, a freelance development agency, according to [his personal site](https://elie.tech/).\n\n### A directory stored as markdown\n\nBot Directory's underlying structure is deliberately thin. The [public GitHub repository](https://github.com/elie222/botdirectory.ai) stores each bot as a markdown file containing a name, category, contributor, required integrations and the prompt itself. The front end is a static Astro and TypeScript site.\n\nContributors can add an entry by opening a pull request. People who do not want to use GitHub can reply beneath an X post describing a setup and tag [Bot Directory AI (@BotDirectoryAI)](https://x.com/BotDirectoryAI). Steinbock says an agent reads the thread, creates the entry and opens the pull request automatically.\n\nThat submission loop is the more consequential part of the launch. Bot Directory is using X as the discovery layer, an agent as the intake desk and GitHub as the database and moderation trail. A useful workflow can move from a post into the catalog without Steinbock manually rewriting and publishing every entry.\n\nThe [contribution guide](https://github.com/elie222/botdirectory.ai/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) requires contributors to have run prompts end to end before submitting them. Automated checks validate the file format, category, name and build. The repository explicitly has no plugin API or review board, keeping contributions fast while placing much of the quality burden on prompt authors and users.\n\nThat matters because many of the listed workflows request access to sensitive operational systems. Several prompts tell agents to connect to email, customer records, accounting software or code repositories. Many also build approval steps into the instructions, such as holding messages before sending them or requiring confirmation before purchases and account changes.\n\n### The prompt shelf is already monetized\n\nBot Directory is free and MIT-licensed, but Steinbock has attached a direct sponsorship business to the catalog. The site offers 15 monthly sponsor positions beside the listings for $800 each. As of August 18th, Bot Directory said 10 positions had been taken.\n\nThe site also directs users toward Grok Bot and [Rakazo](https://rakazo.com/), an open-source agent runner operated by Inbox Zero Inc. Rakazo lets users run agents on their own machines with their own model keys. Bot Directory's repository describes its prompts as compatible with Grok Bot, Rakazo or other agents, widening the catalog beyond a single vendor even though Grok supplies the launch hook.\n\nSteinbock said in the launch thread that Bot Directory records when visitors copy prompts, though he initially hid those counts because every listing would begin at zero. Those copy events could eventually provide the ranking system the catalog currently lacks and show which agent workflows people actually deploy rather than merely discuss.\n\nFor Steinbock, the project turns scattered examples into a distribution surface for agent software. The code is simple, the inventory comes from users and the commercial layer is already visible. The harder test begins after the copying: whether these prompts produce dependable workers once they are connected to the inboxes, repositories and customer systems they promise to operate.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-grok-bot-prompts", "published_at": "2026-08-18 05:46:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 06:12:15.129849+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Elie Steinbock", "Bot Directory", "Grok Bot", "Inbox Zero", "GitHub", "Astro", "TypeScript", "Rakazo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/elie-steinbock-launches-bot-directory-for-one-prompt-grok-bots.jsonld"}}