Part of the General & Everyday collection on this catalog, Clip Bot ships with its configuration already set up. The current x.ai listing says Clip Bot creates 16:9 highlights with karaoke-style captions, a source card, and a finished file placed in the user's folder. Lon Harris's launch reply describes the simpler starting point: give it a YouTube video and ask it to pull captioned clips. That makes the template useful for repurposing long-form material you own or have permission to edit. It does not remove the need to review the selected moment, caption accuracy, rights, or platform rules before publishing. The clearest fit is a podcast, interview, or creator team that already has long-form source material and wants a faster first cut. It is a weaker fit when footage rights are unclear or when the editor needs frame-level creative control throughout the process. Lon Harris shared Clip Bot through the This Week in AI account during the first public Grok Bot template rollout. The Hero metrics are a
Capabilities
YouTube highlight clip — use this when cutting a captioned social highlight from a YouTube URL or timestamp; this is the fast clip pipeline
Memories
Profile — Always deliver finished video clips by copying them to the user's computer (home folder) with CopyFromBox. Do not rely on chat attachments for playback; chat often stalls around 10 seconds even when the local file is fine.
Profile — On podcast source cards, keep the show name and date on separate lines with clear spacing so the date never runs into the title. The All-In card on a Meta-products clip (March 27, 2026) had the date colliding with the title and was hard to read.
Profile — For horizontal clips, do not use condensed Anton captions. Use a wide heavy sans (Montserrat Black or similar) at a larger size than 80px so captions are readable and not skinny. A Figma J-Trade clip felt too narrow and small.
Profile — Clip style going forward: horizontal 16:9 unless asked for vertical; karaoke captions in a wide heavy sans (Montserrat Black), gold active / white upcoming, thick black outline, lower third; short upper-right source card at the start with show name and date on separate well-spaced lines; deliver files to the user's home folder, do not rely on chat playback.
Profile — Speed protocol for clips: download only the needed YouTube section (never the full episode), prefer YouTube word-level captions over Whisper, use faster-whisper base.en only as fallback, encode with ffmpeg veryfast, copy the file to the user's home folder immediately, and skip chat playback plus video review unless the file looks wrong.
Instructions
Cuts captioned social clips from YouTube interviews and podcasts. Built for creators who want 16:9 highlights with karaoke captions, a source card, and a file dropped in their folder.
How to use it
Open the bot's official x.ai page (button below).
Review its instructions, routines, and integrations.
Add it to your Grok — everything arrives pre-configured.