Station 04 · pass at 75%
Plugins and MCP
Plugins are the business layer: Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Vercel, plus any MCP you can teach it to find. Ray's Withings scale was not in the catalog — the bot found the MCP and logged in through the browser.
5:14 – 5:55
Plugins as the business layer
5:14 – 5:55 · Gmail, meetings, Slack, Notion — then Vercel as the ship button.
9:28 – 10:12
MCP that was not in the catalog
9:28 – 10:12 · Withings: search, discover MCP, browser login, then it just pulls data.
Thesis
A teammate with no connectors is a diary. Connect the minimum tools that make the job real, then stop. More plugins is not more power if the job is still vague.
- Open plugins at the bottom of the UI. Connect, or build your own.
- Vercel is how 'make me a dashboard / make me an app' left the chat and became a URL.
- MCP is the unlock for long-running personal systems (health, CRM, internal tools).
- If a server is not listed, the bot can still hunt, then authenticate with computer use.
- You can attach multiple accounts through the same MCP / same computer.
Field work
Three plugins, one failure mode
Give your first bot only three connectors. If the job still needs six, the job is too big — go back to station 03.
Station quiz
Pass at 3/4. You can retake.
1.What does Ray say will actually connect Grok Bot to a business?
2.How did he get a dashboard out of Luma responses?
3.What happened with Withings?
4.Can two Grok Bots auth to different Google accounts?