Compare Costco and Amazon carts on price and delivery
Grok Bot added items to carts at Costco and Amazon and compared prices, delivery charges and times, handing the desktop back to the user for CAPTCHA or 2FA. Task: Matt Palmer instructed Grok Bot to browse Costco and Amazon, add specific items to his cart, and compare prices, delivery charges, and times. The bot operates on a persistent cloud desktop, allowing it to interact with websites like a human user. When encountering CAPTCHA or 2FA challenges, the bot hands control back to Palmer for manual verification before resuming the task.; tools: Grok Bot. Human role: Not stated in the source; limitations: A logged-in bot has the technical capability to make purchases, creating a risk of unintended spending. Permissions are managed via natural language rules in Settings, checked by a separate review agent, but this relies on the model correctly interpreting instructions. Additionally, login sessions are shared across all bots, meaning credentials used for one task are accessible to others, increasing security exposure..
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Overview
Grok Bot added items to carts at Costco and Amazon and compared prices, delivery charges and times, handing the desktop back to the user for CAPTCHA or 2FA.
Workflow
Matt Palmer instructed Grok Bot to browse Costco and Amazon, add specific items to his cart, and compare prices, delivery charges, and times. The bot operates on a persistent cloud desktop, allowing it to interact with websites like a human user. When encountering CAPTCHA or 2FA challenges, the bot hands control back to Palmer for manual verification before resuming the task.
Reported result
The source guide mentions this workflow briefly but provides no specific data, such as actual price differences, delivery times, or accuracy metrics for the comparison. Consequently, the effectiveness and completeness of the automated comparison remain unverified. A measurable acceptance check would require logging the final cart totals and delivery estimates from both platforms to validate the bot's data extraction accuracy.
Human role
Not stated in the source
Limitations
A logged-in bot has the technical capability to make purchases, creating a risk of unintended spending. Permissions are managed via natural language rules in Settings, checked by a separate review agent, but this relies on the model correctly interpreting instructions. Additionally, login sessions are shared across all bots, meaning credentials used for one task are accessible to others, increasing security exposure.
Try it
Act as a price comparison assistant. I will provide a list of [replaceable inputs: item names, quantities, and target retailers like Costco and Amazon]. Use Grok Bot to navigate to each retailer's website, search for the items, and add them to the cart. Do not proceed to checkout. If a CAPTCHA or 2FA prompt appears, pause and request my manual intervention. Once items are in the cart, extract the total price, delivery fee, and estimated delivery date for each retailer. Output a comparison table with columns: Retailer, Item, Unit Price, Total Price, Delivery Fee, Delivery Date, and Notes. Before finalizing, perform a dry run with one item to verify data extraction accuracy. Ask me to confirm the extracted data is correct before processing the full list. If any item is out of stock, note it in the 'Notes' column and suggest a similar alternative if available.
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