Observability and local-permission audit for xAI Grok Bot
Your Grok Bot agents run on xAI's cloud VMs, where you cannot watch them — but they can ask your machine to run commands, and can hold standing permission to keep doing it. ClawMetry detects Grok Bot automatically, renders every conversation, and shows exactly what each bot is allowed to do locally.
All 28 runtimes ClawMetry observes
Grok Bot is one of them; the other 27 are listed below. Free on every plan: OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Goose. Paid on Cloud Pro or Self-Hosted Pro: the rest.
What ClawMetry sees on Grok Bot
Once ClawMetry is running, your Grok Bot activity shows up as:
- Bots as sessions: name, description, created and last-active times, unread count, message totals.
- Full transcripts, both sides: your turns and the bot’s replies, plus attachments it hands back.
- Local tool-permission asks: when a bot asks to act on your machine — what it wants to run, and whether you granted it once or always. Standing grants are called out, because those outlive the conversation that created them.
- Local reach: the MCP servers the client holds, which of their tools are disabled, and whether the egress tunnel is on.
- Local-exec daemon: whether the helper that runs commands on your machine is alive right now, and how many calls are in flight.
- Handoffs: when a bot delegates to a Cursor background agent, surfaced as a marker rather than invented lineage.
Enable it in about two minutes
1. Install ClawMetry
Pick the line that matches your OS. Windows users: paste the install.cmd line, not the shell one.
# macOS or Linux
curl -fsSL https://clawmetry.com/install.sh | bash# Windows (cmd.exe or PowerShell)
curl -fsSL https://clawmetry.com/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmdAlready have Python? pip works too; onboard is the interactive first-run wizard.
# Any OS with Python 3.9+
pip install clawmetry && clawmetry onboardOr skip the terminal entirely and grab the desktop app: macOS (.dmg) · Windows (.exe) · Linux (.AppImage). It installs and updates ClawMetry for you.
2. Run the daemon
clawmetryThe daemon auto-detects Grok Bot and starts reading immediately. No env var, no config, no restart of the desktop app.
3. Open the dashboard
Open http://localhost:8900. Switch the runtime chip to Grok Bot.
Start the free trial →The one thing this catches that Grok Bot alone does not
A bot asks once to run a command on your laptop, you click “always”, and the prompt never appears again. The grant is real, it persists, and nothing in the Grok Bot interface keeps a running list of what you have handed out. ClawMetry does: every permission ask, what it wanted to run, which bot asked, and which grants are standing rather than one-off — next to whether the local-exec helper is running right now.
That is the question worth answering for an agent you cannot watch. It is not spend, because spend is not knowable from here.
Starred by the people building AI
Engineers and founders from OpenAI, Google, PostHog and more have starred ClawMetry on GitHub. One of them helped build it.
