Grok 4.5 FREE Course: Build ANYTHING! 🔥

grok for one hour course today i'm going to show you a free course where i basically run down exactly how to use and get the most out of grok 4.5 which is the smartest model so far from spacex ai super powerful tool great for coding great for agentic tasks great for knowledge work i actually tested out on 50 different projects you see a lot of the stuff that we've tested it with using goldie bench and is really fun to use super powerful we can create amazing things and and very underrated actually one of the best things about grok itself is that if you have subscribed to twitter already then you can actually use grok 4.5 for free using your twitter subscription you also might be wondering okay how does it perform in terms of benchmark it's pretty good now i wouldn't say it's as good as claude opus 4.8 or for example fable 5 at the time of recording this however it is a really powerful tool and also bear in mind that for example claude cannot create images but grok 4.5 actually can so with that let's get straight into it and i'll show you exactly how to use it there's quite a few different ways you can use grok i'm going to show you some of the best ways today so one of the easiest ways is you can just go into super grok here as you can see one of the biggest advantages of using something like super grok is that you can pull in the latest news from twitter so not only can you create images with it not only can you create videos with it but also you can actually pull in the latest trending news from twitter which no other ai can and bear in mind like the news from twitter is live it's in real time and that's really good for example for especially stuff like content creation so let's say for example we wanted to know okay what's going on in ai automation today we can pull up super grok as you can see and then we can switch between the modes you go auto and you can choose between fast and expert so expert is like a thinking model that's going to take a bit more time to respond but you'll get smarter answers and then you have fast mode which you'll get much faster responses with but the answers won't be as intelligent so if you just need like a quick chat a quick sort of answer for example like what time is it now or for example how do i say this in italian blah blah blah then you can use grok.com with the fast mode and if you prefer to get a thoughtful answer especially if you're building something out then i would recommend they actually use the expert mode as well so that's one option for using this now you also have grok.com so you can use it directly inside twitter uh on the super grok section here as you can see you can also go over to grok over here on grok.com and then we can select between for example each of these options now we have to sign in to get access to the rest of them if you're not signed in you can get access just to the fast mode so you don't get the same intelligence and then also when you're using this you can also use something called a cli which i'll come on to in a second as well so we just signed into grok build as you can see here and we can also try grok 4.5 by launching this inside our terminal so you see how it gives us this command over here this means that we can use grok build powered by grok 4.5 and this is basically like grok's version of claude code so it's called grok build if we go to our terminal here and i'll show you an example this is called code for example where we can code inside our terminal with it and then we have grok which we can install like so and we just fetch the latest version and then it will start building that out in the background so it's just a quick copy and paste from grok.com into the terminal to get access and then when you want to start running grok you can type in grok over here and i think this is really good now because we have grok build running with 4.5 we have grok.com which we can build with and we also have super grok directly inside twitter so there's three different ways you can get access to grok there's another option as well which i'll come on to later and there's an api option as well but i think just to keep it simple for a beginner's course to grok and how to use it etc we're going to stick with this now what you can also see here is that we've got auto fast expert then we have heavy a team of expert agents if you want to get that version then we have to upgrade but i think for 99% of people you don't need this all this means with super grok heavy is that when you upgrade you get a team of agents working together but you don't really need that for 99% of things now what you're also going to see from the drop down here is something called custom instructions you might be wondering okay what are custom instructions these are just instructions that tell grok exactly how to answer when you are responding with it so when you are speaking to grok you can tell it exactly how you like it and prefer it to answer this is kind of like giving a soul to your ai agent so that it can respond and understand you and everything else so we can go inside here and we can say okay here's the name of this profile and you can have multiple different types of profiles that respond to you so for example we've got custom we have concise we have formal tutor comprehensive and these are all different ways it can respond to you if you have certain preferences for example in responding to you in a certain way or maybe you prefer responses to be funny maybe you prefer the grok agent to be personalized to seo or to some sort of activity you work on day to day you can plug that in here right you could say okay you are julian goldie ai expert and then you can plug in the custom instructions so you can switch between these so let's just stick with the normal version here and then what we're going to do from here is we're going to switch to expert mode and now we can start building we can also upload a file we can see our recent here so if you click the plus sign you can upload a file you can add the recent things you've worked on you can have projects which we'll come on to later you can have skills and you can also add connectors which connects grok to separate apps and then we have the folder that we want to work in so we don't just have to work inside a default folder we can also connect dropbox to this and we can connect google drive as well now if you want to build something with grok it's a pretty smart model and it can understand you pretty well so for example if we say okay create a beautiful website for an seo agency you just prompt it like so to get this response back and you can also see here that it will actually come up with the auto suggest so when we're using this it'll actually come up with ideas on how we can improve the prompt so if the prompt is brief or if you don't have much time or if you want the ai to figure out for you then you can actually see when you type in and response like this it will say okay do you want to use html and css you want to use it with responsive design or could you incorporate the best seo practices into so i'm going to stick with this one and then we are going to go with this section as well and it's asking us to confirm h so we're just going to click save on that like so and now that's going to start working on this now when you are building out with this you'll see the new conversation history over here so when you're using grok you can see your previous conversations you can see what you've worked on you can see your history and then you also see that you have skills and connectors build imagine new chat search and new projects these are all options that you can run through and we'll talk about each of these in a second so now this is beginning to write out the code now if we go back to terminal if you remember we had terminal open before with terminal we can actually just speak to grok and the difference between this and say something like grok.com is with the terminal with grok build so just to be very clear here this is grok build on the right hand side and then we have grok.com on the left hand side you can basically use the power of grok build in a cli format which means that it's better for coding it can code locally it can look at local files it's basically like having an app for grok that you can speak to directly here so on the left hand side we have the setup and the responses here for creating a website whatever and then on the right hand side we have the options over here all right so that's how you can get access to this stuff now if we come back over here we can now ask it to start working on something so if we say okay let's take the same prompts for creating a beautiful website for an seo agency we can plug that in and it literally just works in the same way the only difference is that you select where you want your project directory to be so when you're building with grok build it has to have a folder that it can code into locally on your machine now you can just stick with the current default if you want you could select something that you've recently used you could say don't ask me again or you can actually type your answer as well so i'm just going to go with the current just to make it easy and fast simple but if you want to separate your projects out inside grok build into separate folders you can do it this way now you'll see that it says i'll build a polished single page seo agency site in html css check the workspace blah blah blah on the left hand side we have the final html build built out over here too now what you can see on the left hand side is that this format is less of a coding response so if you look at the response over here it generates an image then it says here's a complete self-contained version of the website then it gives us the responses for the website which is still being coded out now so if you want to know if grok is still working on something or not you'll see that it has this stop sign here so we can stop this any point if you want to interrupt it and it's just beginning to code out on the right hand side we have grok build and that is building out the same project but the difference is here that it's going to code it out locally for us honestly if you're coding something so for example if you to build a website, an app, a game, a tool. If you want to do anything like that I would actually recommend that you use grok build. It's easy to set up in one prompt as I've shown you already but also the other big benefit of this is that you can have your responses saved locally and also you can preview your projects much easier which we'll come on to later. On the left hand side we have the html being coded out as well it's pretty cool and then once that's completed we can actually get responses.

So these are both working side by side. Now if we go over to grok.com, if you're looking at building a project but you're like okay well I want to do two things at once because this can take quite a long time to respond to us, you've got a few options. You could open up multiple terminal windows, you could open up multiple terminal tabs with multiple versions for grok build or on the left hand side you can actually have multiple tabs with grok.com working. Why would you want to do that?

Because if you're coding across multiple projects each project takes a little while to respond and so if you want to save time you can be more productive and work on multiple different projects at the same time. That's an easy way to do it. Now what you'll see here as well is the grok build has actually come back to us and it's actually created a whole response here. Now if you look at these side by side which one gives you a better output?

I would certainly say that it's grok build because it's easier to read, it's got the code here, it has the response and it tells us what stack it's used. It's actually coded that out locally for us and if we want to open up the project and the project files we can now double click on this and we can say open this up for me and that will actually open up the terminal. If you want to see what was previously done in the conversation you can see over here and so in one single prompt we have now got back the website. So this is the full website for our SEO agency that we asked it to build.

Now how much easier is it to preview this than it is to go back into the chat and then if you go back into the chat here we can click on the play sign and we can preview the website but it's a little bit more work, a little bit more. But either way at the same time both of these are really good outputs like this website looks pretty nice and so does the website that was coded out locally. So to be very clear here this is the project built with grok build and this is the project built with grok.com. Now we can also view the project that we built inside desktop version so this is the desktop preview.

We have the mobile version and we have the source code. So if you just want to get the code you've got it over here. If you want to get the mobile version you can view it over here. If there's something you don't like you can actually go back into the chat and improve it and then if you see for example like one thing I would definitely recommend is that you give it a quality control review.

So you want to look at everything that you've built, have a look through it and think to yourself okay is this good enough what's not right. So for example you can see here it's added a bunch of testimonials but it's just kind of made this up. We could actually feed it proper testimonials. If we check the drop down boxes they all seem to work but you see how there's a couple of missing images over here.

So we want to insert stuff like that and just quality control it. Now also when you're building out for example like a website you can actually go on to the website that you want to use your branding from. So for example for me it's the AI proper bordering that's our website with our branding. Then we can go back into grok.com here and we can say okay based on the below can you just add this style of branding.

This is from my other website but I still want the same colors, the same brand, the same feel and the same space and everything else. So what that's actually going to do is take the HTML that we've given it from our actual website and it's going to analyze that and it can read the code and then it can use that code to figure out how to make the website over here look and feel more like us. Because right now obviously it's just like kind of generic fluff. So if you want your brand to be really truly like to come through in the coding projects you're building I would recommend this method and you can do the same inside grok build as well.

So grok build you can do exactly the same process you can paste in the HTML and go from there. Now let's say for example we opened up that website from grok build over here and now let's say okay well what I want to do here is I want to improve it. So we can just go back inside the chat here and we can say okay use my brand colors which I've typed in plus make sure the cta is to and then you just insert the cta that you want the link to. And so now it's going to edit this response here and once it's completed we can just refresh the page.

So this is being built out in grok build and you can come back to it later. So these are some examples of what you can use and what you can build with it. We can also open up the new version of the page that we've just generated. So we've got this page over here and if we want to have a look at the newest version we've got that here and we can click play now and you see how the new version is in my branding my style it looks exactly like the website I was showing you before and we've basically customized everything that we saw previously and plugged it into our project and now it doesn't feel like generic fluff.

The same with this website right so we plugged in our brand colors and if we click on this this actually links to my page now and it looks and feels a lot more like my content feels a lot more personalized to me. Perfect. Now what you can actually do is you can save things called skills when you're using grok and if you're familiar with grok you'll probably know about this already but when you're using grok you can actually add skills. Now if you were using grok build you can just go inside the terminal window here and you can say okay make sure that you save my brand colors and call it a skill called branding and so we can save that skill over there and we can do the same thing inside grok over here.

Now if we go to the skills and connectors section we can add a new skill we can write that manually we could upload a skill file or we could create a new skill with grok. Now you might ask okay why would you want to create skills how are they useful so skills can be used and saved for later so you have if you have certain workflows that you work on day-to-day skills are very useful so for example you can see that this is a new skill file that's been created by grok and what that means is it saved those settings it saved the skill of branding for our website and it can reuse it in the future and we can just call that so if we were creating a new app for example or a game we could say okay create a snake game using your branding skill and when we do that the game will be created but also it'll be created using our branding colors because we save that as a skill and even if we start a new chat it's going to be the same. Now if we have a look at that markdown file that's created we can actually upload that directly into something like grok as well so if we go back to grok.com we could add a new skill here and we could actually upload the skill file which is a markdown file. Now we can also create a new skill with grok so if there's something you want to automate you can actually use a skill creator section to get better outputs and recall that skill so it's basically like saving a workflow for later that's the way that would look at it so let's say for example we do forward slash skill creator inside grok.com and we're like right okay create create a skill for generating seo content for my website use this prompt below to help you and then we'll go back to grok over here and we have it right now what i'm actually going to do is just pull up a prompt so if you have some prompts that you use day to day there's no need to copy and paste them anymore you can just save this as a skill and come back to it later so we've got this full prompt here for doing seo we're going to come back to the chat i want to say use this prompt below to help you and then create a custom workflow for doing seo and so that's going to now start working on a skill for seo now don't expect this to be magic but basically we can now train grok on exactly how we like our workflows to be done so that it's more personalized to us in the future now also we were talking about that snake game before using the branded skill and you see how this is now uh set up to use my branding because we created that skill with my branding inside it and so this is great because we save so much time we don't need to copy and paste prompts anymore we can recall workflows we can give it the skill of creating content or anything that you do day to day you really want to look at okay how can i save this as a skill inside grok and i'll stop playing snake for now so if we go back to the terminal we can build like so and some people say well the terminal looks a bit technical for me no problem you can just go back to grok.com other people say what's the benefit what's the difference between grok build and grok.com basically that this is more for coding and this is better for building apps tools games websites if you're building any of that sort of stuff you can use the grok build version instead of grok.com and you can see here that it's actually beginning to create that new skill and it'll actually guide you through it so if it needs more information will ask you inside the chat and you can just train it up.

The other thing that I'd recommend for skills and workflows is that you create the skill, you test it, iterate on it and you improve it. So one thing that I do, and I do the same thing inside Claude, is like every time I see something bad I'm like listen this is a problem you need to save and update your skill and for example if I'm like creating and testing something I'll be like right okay you see this this is a problem fix this and update your skill to remember that and so you can save every new iteration of your feedback as a skill and the great thing is like for example if you were training someone on your team or if you had someone at your company that you were trying to bring on board you'd have to repeat the same thing sometimes every day for months let's be honest whereas with this system you don't have to repeat yourself because you're recalling your skill and that can come back at any time so if we say okay create a seo blog using your seo content generation the keyword equals seo training in japan just as an example to show you we can recall the skill that we just created and we can save skills for everything that we work on so you see how it's reading the seo skill instructions here and then it's going to begin to build with this so that's how you can create skills very very useful and powerful and then if we go back inside here we can also switch to something called connectors now connectors basically connects grok to the real world so for example if you're using gmail well you can give grok access to gmail and then it can edit and create files for you the same for example with google drive or github or anything like that if you create that website that we were talking about before you can actually host it and make it open source on github in like one single click you could create and manage calendar events you could create documents inside google drive or gmail so if we're having a look through here and we're like okay what would be the most useful by the way this is quite limited compared to some other tools so if you're thinking you know if you're looking at this and you look at the connectors this is a very small pool compared to for example something like claude which has an endless number of connectors the same with chat gpt but it's still focused on the on the main things that you would use most of the stuff that you can connect inside chat gpt like if you look through the full list it's very long but 99 of it you're not actually going to use so if we go inside the connectors here we can switch to gmail and we can connect gmail to our grok account and the great thing about that is we set up once and then we can come back later so if we connect that now to our grok account as you can see and then we can edit its permissions so you see here we can allow it to for example send emails on our behalf but we can cancel that if we want to we can swap and change the permissions based on what you're comfortable with so if you see something in this list and you're like okay i don't want it to be able to send emails but i want it to be able to read emails then you can just swap and change and untick everything on the box whatever you prefer so i'm just going to go with the basic settings for now and then once we've got this connected which we have over here you'll see inside the installed section if you ever want to remove access from one of the apps that you're giving access to grok from you can click on disconnect for example so if we have a look at the list something else that could be useful is google drive and what this is going to allow you to do with all these systems that we're building right now is it's going to allow you to give grok more power so you can create more complex workflows so skills are awesome building that website is awesome but also being able to do all this stuff can really bring it all together and make grok itself way more powerful so i'll show you in a session what this looks like in reality so we've got gmail and we've got google drive set up over here so what we can do inside the chat here is we can select our connectors and we just need to make sure they're switched on as you can see and we can manage and remove any of those later so if we go inside the new chat here and we're going to say okay at gmail so just type in at the at sign and then you can select gmail and you can say okay send an email to julian.goldie at gmail.com saying hello and also create a blog about seo training in japan using your seo skill and then send him the link in an email to that document on google drive and so we're giving it a more complex workflow combining everything that we've just created before because we've set up these skills we've taught grok how to create seo content we have connected grok to google drive and gmail now what we need to do is put it all together so that we can show you the full power of this stuff so we're going to test out now sometimes it can be a bit limited so it will try and attempt that sometimes it won't work i would hope that it can actually generate that but we'll see how that goes in a second now also when you're using grok there's some other cool features too so you now have for example imagine video 1.5 now this means that you can create videos using grok build as well and you have projects you have the chat and you can switch between them so if you click on the chat here you can actually generate videos just directly inside the chat and you can switch between the resolution the time and the the ratio the aspect ratio of that so for example you could generate a video that is widescreen or vertical or square or wide at all whatever you format you prefer so for example vertical usually preferred on social media accounts and you can switch between them now bear in mind that if you look at the length the maximum length of the videos you can create the maximum 6 seconds or 10 seconds so you can switch between agents as well so image and video agents and if we just go back to that workflow that we're working on here you can see that it's beginning to work through the document so that's going to take a few minutes to do but it's basically reading through the seo content generation section then it's going to use that skill to create the content and it's just going to work through this plan step by step so it'll write the seo blog post then it'll create it on google drive and then it should share the link to the gmail that we're creating but we'll come back to that in a minute so if we go back to this section this is grok imagine to get back to it just to be very clear here you just go to the imagine section inside here and then you'll see the images and the videos now you can also use this for templates so if we have a look at this for example if you're if you've got an e-commerce store then you could actually use the product showcase and you can add a photo here and then upload it let me show you how that works in practice so let's say for example i have a book i have a link building book for seo i can get that image over here we can add that as an image so we'll upload that now that's going to begin animating the image using the template that we just selected from grok imagine so there's all these custom made workflows that help you get the most out of the video generation and everything else inside this so if we flick back to this setup as well it's now creating the setup as you can see which is pretty cool and an email has been sent directly so let's just double check this we'll see what's been done over here so you can see that grok directly from the app has sent the email says hello seo training japan blog document hello hope you're doing well i've created a detail by the way we didn't tell grok to write this email like this at all it literally figured out okay here's what we're going to say here's how we're going to send it and then it's also linked to the google drive document so that actually works really smoothly and then we have the link to the document over here that actually works that's got the full blog post it is a 1000 word blog post following the exact skill that i gave it earlier and we have the email sent pretty amazing very very smooth that works better than expected now if we come back to grok here we now have the video ready to go so it is animated the product that we gave it which is this book here and turned it from like a 2d image into a 3d video now we can actually regenerate that so if you get an output here and you don't really like it you can just refresh it you can also download it for later you can share it so you can create a shareable link you could share that with your team or an ex you can actually compose a post with x so if you use x a lot grok is very useful because it just links directly to twitter all right so if you're creating content with grok imagine what you can go straight over to twitter and just post it which is really amazing you can see that it's just added that automatically for us we didn't have to upload it it was just ready to go now if we come back over here we can also start over we can view it as well now if you click on view it will actually take you to a separate page with that video and that is basically it for generating the videos i mean if you have a look here there's all sorts of types of videos and some of the outputs here are pretty amazing the only thing that you're going to be slightly limited with is the time so you know if you want to create longer videos you probably wouldn't use something like grok video because it is just limited to six or ten seconds but still it's pretty cool now also you'll see at the bottom here we can switch between agent video and image so you've got agent mode in side grok here and then we have the image section so if you want to create an image let's say for example create an image of a cat eating doughnuts which we've all wanted to generate an image of so we're gonna hit enter like so and that will create the image as you can see and we can come back to that later now also what it's done here is it's actually generated several images which is pretty awesome so if you don't like one you can easily create another one and how fast was that to do it was unbelievable this actually in the discover section so we are we are looking through other people's generations I think so yeah and then we can click on new generation and we can go from there right so it's beginning to generate that as you can see pretty nice now when we come back to this we've also got a bunch of other templates so you can use this for example like it's got object remover has certain styles of cartoons and stuff like that you can create and there's so many different presets you can just click on the right hand side to switch between them and have a look through everything that's being created over here now we also have this option for a project so what we can do from here is we can switch between the type of thing they want to create well historical stories we could create worlds short films etc UGC so if we click on historical stories now what that's actually gonna do is gather some historical stories from July the 13th because that's the date of today and then it's going to create an infographic and a cinematic scene for all this so we can see here that we've got multiple different images being created and it's going to create this historical story from it and then it's like okay for the video next you can go with this and then it's going to start building out that project now you'll see this project folder here and then you can actually have multiple conversations underneath the project itself we can also rename that project at any time and we can delete or rename anything that we've created over here now if we go back to grok that was the imagine section if you need to go back to any of your chat see you are I create this thing that was really cool last week how do I find it you can just click on the search over here and if we go back to imagine we can just leave things working in the background as well now we were talking before about which work folder we want to use so if we prefer to create our work inside Google Drive maybe for example we are working on Google Drive and we're like okay we need to come back to this and we need to change that etc well or we need to share this with our team we can click on Google Drive here and we can select the actual folder that we want to work from so if we click on work folder change we can have our work in the cloud and that can work across all of our projects to really useful if you've got a team or if for example you got multiple devices you need to come back to this later and you want to save everything in one place so it's now creating the video as you can see this is looking good pretty nice and then also if we go over to news new chat here we can also search through Twitter so we can use this to find trending content let me show you an example of this in much more powerful workflow so this is my agent operating system we actually give it to members inside the app upper-bottom so if you want my setup you can get it there and if you go to the Hermes tab here we have something called Hermes Oracle and what this is doing and I'll show you how to do this in a second is is basically running on a 24-hour schedule and it's pulling in the latest news from Twitter using grok 4.5 so it actually links directly to the tweet it's a custom-made workflow and then from here we can draft the content or we can publish content about that particular topic straight to our website it also categorizes it by which topic is the most trending right now and what's really interesting here you might be wondering okay how good is grok 4.5 so according to these benchmarks grok 4.5 is actually outperforming GPT 5.6 on the design benchmarks as you can see right here and also for browser code as well so in some ways is actually outperforming Claude which is pretty amazing anyway getting back to this we've got this system and a custom workflow where we can basically have our power of grok 4.5 plugged into a custom workflow custom designed and it doesn't cost us anything extra now you might be thinking okay how do you do that you know how do you set that up so if you wanted to build something basic like that you can actually go over to the grok build tab that you have that we talked about earlier and you're going to grok build and you'd be like okay create a custom dashboard that pulls in the latest news from Twitter using grok 4.5 CLI so that I can have a tool where I can find the latest trending news in AI automation and then we can get it to build that for us so one thing to note here is a back in the old days the only way you could really get Twitter for example inside a tool inside a custom workflow is by using the API but now we have something called CLIs so grok 4.5 itself this grok build terminal tab that we have is a CLI now when you're using a CLI you can basically create things that use the magic of AI in the tool that you create so if we go back over here and we go back to the agent OS this is using grok build 4.5 CLI to build out this beautiful dashboard and also pull in the latest news so that's pretty awesome so just to recap here in terms of what we've done so far we have the setup here where I've shown you how to basically create and build anything inside the chat how to generate images with grok how to generate videos with grok how to take advantage of their pre-made templates how to connect apps and also how to use skills and also how to combine skills and the apps and custom workflows inside one custom workflow like we talked about before right where it sent an email with a link to our Google Drive document now from here we can also create something called projects so if we type in for example example name like this we can actually give it access to these tools as well or you cannot and then you can also give it files so let's say for example you had a project that you're working on let's say for example I need to create SEO content I'm working on the AI profit born calm and I need to create blog content for that consistently so what I can do from here is I can basically add files add useful tutorials to it and train this with custom knowledge so for example if we go back over here to the project section we have this project for custom made knowledge now you might be familiar with this because for example Claude has projects too and we have projects inside Claude for automating our emails and stuff like that we also have for example projects inside chat GPT where we can basically come back to whatever we've built so far and by the way that tool that was talking about before using grok is over here but we'll come back to that in a second so when it comes to projects this is just useful for storing everything in one place and basically having like a pre-trained conversation with grok that can come back to the automation whenever you need it so for example what we can do over here is we can say you are an SEO blog writer for the AI profit born calm now we can hit save on that and if we go inside the connectors we can give it access to our gmail or Google Drive and then inside the file section here we can upload a file we can add recent we can add a work folder etc so you can actually link this to a Google Drive folder now if we go to for example upload a file we can take that SEO workflow that we have before like so we can grab that and then we can upload that into grok to custom train it on our knowledge so you're basically giving context to grok so that understands you how you run your workflows you could add SOPs in there you could add previous documents I mean for example if you were automating social media then you could actually create a project where it understands how you write your content so that it can be used to create content in the future so this is basically like a project dedicated to one custom workflow or for example if you had multiple clients let's say for example you had from my SEO agency I have a client in the fitness space and then maybe I have a client in for example the AI space we could have separate projects for each client we can generate content based on our custom workflows and we can also send the documents that we create into a shared file and folder on Google Drive so that all of our clients can access this that's the sort of stuff we can do here and then you can see that you can come back to at any time so if we refresh the page we can just come back to our custom made projects over here at any point as well now we also have works as well. This is not something I particularly use honestly, but you can basically have a custom workspace that we can come back to, we can add new chats inside there and everything else. So you've got workspaces and you also have projects.

There doesn't seem to be a big difference between them, but yeah you can go with either of those. Now let's come back to the exciting stuff. Here we have the new tool we've created where we can pull in the latest AI news and automation using grok build CLI. So you see how it's basically pulling in these new tweets, it links directly to the tweets as well and these are brand new pieces of news.

So it's basically pulling in all the interesting news from Twitter on that specific topic and you know you can build this for any industry, you could build this for anything that you're working on. If you were for example in the marketing space, you could have a full setup here where it basically segments and finds the latest news in your industry around those topics and if you have a look through this as well, one thing that I'll say here is that as we build this out, this is not that useful in terms of the UI. So you can switch between category, but you could make this page a lot more beautiful. However it's not too bad for a first test.

So what we can actually do is we can go back into grok build and we can say only add in news that is trending right now, that is getting more than say 20,000 views. So we can go inside here and say okay on that page number one make the UI much nicer and much more beautiful and then number two can you allow us to filter so that we can filter by views and just make sure that we focus on the stuff that's actually trending and additionally can you organize it on the page so it looks and feels like a website or a custom app for AI automation news and we can actually filter through it and see okay what's working right now. So we've plugged in that prompt here and we've given it the feedback and now we can actually code between these. Now something else to note when you're using grok build CLI is that you can do these forward slash commands.

So for example we can do forward slash quit, forward slash help, forward slash docs, home, new, fork. Now fork is basically where you can branch the current session into a new conversation. So let's say for example you were creating two of these tools, two of these new trending news tools from Twitter. You could fork the conversation and have one for a different industry or a different client that you're building out for.

You also have compact. Compact compresses the whole conversation. What you'll see in the top right here is that there's a number of tokens. So it says 500,000 and that is 20% of the current context limit.

Once we hit the full total amount we have to compact the information inside the page otherwise what's going to happen is we run out of context and the agent can't respond because it's overwhelmed with too much information. So it's building out as you can see we can do copy and we can go inside each of these etc and we can change this as much as we want. Now we can also see that it's thinking here and we can come back to that in a second once we're done. Now one thing that I want to show you is how to use grok 4.5 agentically.

So everything up to this point has been building cool stuff using custom workflows, adding skills, but let's talk about agents. So AI agents because this is where it can get really fun and by the way we have the new version here and we can filter through the results. We can find the stuff that's trending, we can sort by likes or views etc and we can go with all of these different sections here. Now we can also search by the keyword and we've just basically built out a custom made SaaS tool.

Like people would find that very interesting. That is something that you could share with the world and people will find it super useful. Also you might say okay once you've created something like this how do you share it with the world? How do you give access to everyone else?

So my favorite tool for doing this is something called Netlify and with Netlify what we can do is we can create a new access token over here and we can host our projects that we've created with grok. So for example you can create a custom personal access token, you can go back into the terminal here and you can say hey here's my Netlify access token, host this website over here and give me a domain that I can share with the world. And it will actually do it for you which is pretty cool. You also see something called MCP servers.

This is another way to link apps directly to grok 4.5 build. So if you have a look at that MCP server section, what that means is you can for example find an MCP for a tool that isn't inside the connectors and then use it. So for example if we have a look and we wanted to say operate something like NA10 which is another workflow builder for AI, we can actually link NA10 and its MCP to grok build. We just have to find the MCP for it.

So this means that we can link basically any tool that isn't on the applications section of grok with an MCP instead. And that way we can make it more powerful because the more apps it has access to, the more stuff we can do with it and the more cool things we can build. Now if we go back to our setup here, I was going to talk to you about agentic stuff. So we have something called Hermes Agent.

That is an open source project, one of the most powerful most popular AI agents in the world. Great news, it's free and it's open source. What does that mean? That means that you can actually connect Hermes Agent to grok 4.5 and it can generate images, it can generate videos, you can control it on your phone, but at the same time it can also be used completely for free if you're already subscribed to grok or to Twitter.

So how do you do that? First thing you want to do is make sure that you install Hermes Agent. How do you do that? You just grab the terminal command on the github.

So this is Hermes Agent, you can go to the terminal command and then you can set it up on github. And then you can click that link, so you copy that, you go back into your terminal, open up a new tab. If you're on a Mac you can press ctrl and T, command and T to open up a new tab and then you just paste in that terminal command. Now that will automatically install Hermes Agent inside like the space of 60 seconds.

And the fantastic thing about that is it's never been easy to set up a AI agent until now. Now you can just set up in one click. Once you've done that you can then type in Hermes and that will start your Hermes Agent. Now how do you link it to GPT 4.5?

Great question. So what you're gonna do over here is type in Hermes model inside a new terminal tab. Then you're gonna select grok. From here you can select grok oauth.

Do not select XAI unless you want to use the API, but if you just want to use grok oauth, which basically means like you can log in with one button, you don't need an API key and it doesn't cost you anything extra, then you can just use this setup here and you just select oauth. Once you've done that you can see a bunch of models. So as you can see we've got grok 4.5, 4.3, these are older versions of grok. We also have grok composer fast which is really fast to use.

Grok actually took over cursor like earlier this year and composer is one of the models from cursor. So I'm gonna switch back to grok 4.5 here. So we've selected that and now when we start Hermes Agent we've now got an agent with grok 4.5 plugged in. Fantastic.

Now what we can do from here is we can use Hermes agentically using the power of this system. And so now you've you've got a Hermes agent that is connected to Twitter search. You can generate images using grok 4.5. It can generate videos and that is very unique to grok because most APIs for example like Claude or for example chatgpt, well chatgpt and Claude they can't generate videos.

Claude can't even generate images, chatgpt can. But grok can do all of this. It makes it quite a special API. The other thing that I would say about grok is that it's becoming dramatically better all the time.

So for example when I've tested these models out the new updates from grok are becoming better and they're improving faster. And for example you can actually compare on GoldieBench how these models perform versus each other and what I'll tell you now is that grok holds its own against some of the best models in the world. So a lot of people like to use Opus 4.8 with grok and sorry grok. A lot of people like to use Opus 4.8 instead of grok but if you actually compare the outputs side-by-side they're very similar.

Like it's right up there. I still wouldn't say the Claude is better, the Opus 4.8 is at the same level as grok. I think that grok still has a bit of catching up to do but for the 8020 you don't need the full power of Opus 4.8 and considering this is included with your grok subscription it's well worth it. Now you can also get grok on the app as well and you can use it inside your Twitter app as well which is pretty useful and any sort of tool like this where you want to give your agents or anything that you build access to the web using grok and with the CLI is really really useful because that's something unique to grok that you can't do anywhere else.

Now once we've set up Hermes and we've set up grok build here's how you can link it all together. together and this is where it gets really really fun. So what you see here is an agentic operating system. This is a mission control dashboard that I've created where we can link everything together.

So every AI agent that we use, every CLI that we use, every AI tool that we use, we can plug into this system. So for example we've got Claude over here, we have Hermes agent over here, we have for example GLM 5.2, we have Grok. I actually have a full separate course, completely free, that's on how to build your own agent operating system. But in a very simplified way, if you wanted to build something like this where you can use the power of all these tools in one single place, all you need to do is you go back to your terminal, you go back inside a new terminal tab like and you type in Grok and then from here we can also type in what we want to build.

So we could say for example build out a mission control dashboard that has Hermes with Grok 4.5 and the Grok 4.5 CLI plugged into the system and that's basically how you get started with this stuff. Now also I'm just going to delete that because I want to show you one more thing as well. So if we open up a new tab and we open up Grok here, you see how you can now select between resume a session. So if you accidentally delete something or for example if you accidentally close a session earlier, let's say you're working on building something yesterday, you want to kind of resume that and you want to start off where you left off, then you can just click on resume session.

So that's how you can come back to your previous session as well. So with the agentic operating system, what we have is a fully custom made tool where everything is plugged into one place. So we have for example everything that we've built inside the workspace, we have Hermes agent with Grok 4.5 plugged into the chat as well. So we can actually select our Grok build chat with Hermes and we can use Hermes here.

Now we've also got these custom made tools which I've showed you how to build earlier. Now if you wanted to for example take that mini SAS tool that we built before, then what we can do is we can tell Grok build when we're building out the agent operating system, add this inside there too. And I think out of everything that you can do with this, like having a system where you can just sort of pick the highlights of Grok build and then implement them into a place where you can just in one single click or one single tab come back to them, I think that is the full power of this stuff. And you can link Grok to any tool that you want using either MCPs or for example using a personal access token.

So if you look for example at the integration with NA10, you would use an MCP. If you wanted to give Grok access to websites, then if you're on WordPress for example, you get the login details and the API access token and just give it to Grok and say hey publish content to my website. So if we have a look through this page, the way that we have linked Grok with Hermes agent to publish to WordPress on our websites, so if we click for example here and we click publish to WordPress, that is going to start creating the content and publishing it to our WordPress website. So you can see now it says writing for juliangorder.com and it's pulled in the latest trending news from Twitter and now it's going to write a completely unique blog across three different websites, post it directly to WordPress using this system.

The way that you can do that is you just grab the login details and the API access token, give it to Grok build and you can go from there. That's how easy it is and then we can actually see what we've previously published on this section and we can see all the content that we've created as well. Now one thing to note as well is a lot of the best systems and workflows with AI agents, particularly with Grok, should have a memory and this is a really key part that brings everything together. So when you are for example telling Grok how to code or how to respond to you or how to do branding that sort of thing, you can do skills but also what's really useful is to have a memory.

This is like a brain, so you are taking a brain system structure which is Obsidian and I'll come into that in a second and you are giving it to Grok build. So if we go back to Grok build over here we can actually connect it to a memory system and what that means is it can remember and understand everything about you. Your brand, your voice, your goals, your projects, your clients, your websites etc. So if we were having a look at this memory system as you can see all of these different dots here are different memories.

So for example this has a section on our task management tool and it has all of this linked inside one place and it's written down in markdown so that our AI agents can understand it. Now you might be thinking okay why is that useful? It's useful because if you are using Grok and they're using Claude and then using ChatGPT, well how do they communicate with each other what they've been working on? How can you build a project inside ChatGPT and then come back to Grok later?

You want a memory system like this. So what we've got over here is Obsidian. Now with Obsidian we have our knowledge vault with all of the files and the memories I was talking about before. Now how do you download Obsidian?

You literally you can get it for free just type in Obsidian on Google and you can download this. It's a free app. Once you've done that, once you've got it running locally, you might be like well it's empty. What do I do with all my memories?

So you can go into any tool that you use whether that's Grok, whether that's ChatGPT, whether that's Claude and you can say tell me everything that you know about me and then what it would do is give you all that details and you can just copy and paste that into your knowledge vault inside Obsidian. So if we go inside this section over here we have all of our notes, all of our markdown files and you can just create a new note that says about me or for example Claude or ChatGPT or whatever you want. So you can see here we've got thousands of notes because this stuff gets updated daily automatically by our agents and this links everything together. So you might be thinking now okay well if I'm using Grok build and I've set up Obsidian and we've got all those notes inside there, how do I link Grok build to Obsidian?

So what you can say here is you can say use Obsidian see my local folder with all my memories and use that as your memory system so that you can remember things and then every time you build something or every time we have a session, update my Obsidian folders so that it's neatly organized and you have a second brain that I can share with all my AI agents and this links to Hermes as well and any other agent you use in the future. Now what I would say about all of this you know whether it's Obsidian, whether it's the AgentOS, whether it's that mini app that we were building before, the models will come and go very very quickly indeed. So for example like Grok 4.3, Grok 4.5, they all come out within a short space of time. Some of them get taken down like Fable 5 and then they get added again and you know if you don't have the right systems you worry too much about the models.

So this is why you want the memory system, this is why you want the agent operating system because it links it all together and it wires it in one place where it doesn't matter what model comes out next. If Grok 10 comes out in the future which I'm sure it probably will at some point, that is a scary thought, if Grok 10 comes out no problem because our systems won't change, they'll just improve every single day but what will change is the models and we can swap the models in and out whenever we want. So for example if we're looking at Grok Build inside our agent operating system, when we're building this stuff out and you can see what we created earlier actually today, when we're building this out the great thing is that we can just plug in the new system. We can say to Grok Build, hey inside our agent operating system use the latest model, use the new version as well.

So that's basically how it all links together. We've got the memory, we've got different CLIs, we've got Hermes Agent with Grok Build, we've created mini apps, we've connected to different apps externally, we've used Obsidian and we've talked about how to basically create your own mini apps as well that use the power of Twitter and everything else and this can be used for anything. Something else that's really cool here is you can actually find a lot of great skills online that you can teach Grok too. So you don't have to create your own, you can use external skills.

One example of this is something called Reemotion. Now Reemotion can create videos, it teaches AI agents how to create videos. So for example you can actually get Grok to create like custom animations for you and amazing videos using this skill. How do you do that?

So we can go into the github that we want to install skills for and just be careful where you install skills from because some are better than others and some are not legit. So you want to make sure that you read the files before you install it to anything. I'm very familiar with Reemotion and that's why I'm going to use this. Then we can go into a new tab of GrokBuild like so and we can type in Grok here and we can say okay learn this skill and create an example video for me and again you choose the project folder you want to store it on and also you see how we can have multiple tabs of GrokBuild coding in the background as well.

That's really useful as well because you can just work and you can flick between different projects and do loads of cool stuff. So that is how to teach it new skills, how to turn it into a video agent as well. We have the shared memory system that we've just set up a second ago as well so it's fully understood okay here's where our sitting is, it's written a shared protocol, it's created a grok home so a memory MD file for agent grok and it's added the daily log and then it's wired agents in there as well. Pretty powerful stuff and we've done that in the space of a very short time.

So grok is really really powerful, great at building all sorts of cool stuff. Again if you haven't checked out GoldieBench have a look at that because we've tested out many different models and you can just see okay do you like it do you not, what the strengths, what the weaknesses, what can it build, what don't you like about this as well. So some of the stuff is not that great but other things it's built have been absolutely mind-blowing. So yeah that's basically it and if you want to get more training on it, if you want to connect with me personally you can check out the AI Profitable Audium, link in the comments description or go to the AI Profitable Audium dot com.

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