What's New in Grok Bot: Pages, Vault, Apple integrations and pumpkin bots
Matt Palmer's weekly video walks through Pages, Vault, a better 1Password integration, Apple integrations, video creation, new bot characters, X Spaces, a new mobile typeface and design polish.
Why it matters: Several of these, like the Apple integrations and X Spaces, are shown in the video but are not yet listed in the official changelog.
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Apple integrations on iPhone: Home, Reminders, location, Contacts, Alarms and Calendar, so a Bot can do things like check whether your HomeKit lights are on.
X Spaces: a Bot can help you manage your X Spaces and create lists.
Word to Google Docs: send a .docx file and the Bot can put it in your Google Drive as a Google Doc.
Pumpkin bot character for Halloween, in the app and on X when you like a post about Bot this week.
Improved
Better 1Password integration, built with the 1Password team.
New typeface in the iOS and Android apps, plus general mobile design polish.
Simpler right pane and better reconnect cards when an app signs you out.
If a Bot needs to ask you something while you are at your desk, it waits a few minutes before notifying your phone.
Also covered: Pages, Vault, Bot makes videos, subagents that make images and video, Pinned in the Library, email forwards that keep formatting, fewer approval cards, > for block quotes and Cmd+/ for the shortcuts sheet (all in the official changelog 0.75.2 to 0.75.8).
In the app, a Bot can offer to add, change, or remove one of your Auto-review rules on a card you confirm. Requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later.
Why it matters: Fewer approval interruptions: Auto-review double checks before asking, and you can adjust rules right from a card.
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In the app, a Bot can offer to add, change, or remove one of your Auto-review rules on a card you confirm. Requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later.
Improved
Auto-review takes a second look before showing an approval card, so fewer safe actions need one.
A Bot's status line shows up right after you send, even for quick replies.
When background work finishes, the Bot completes what you asked, including steps you said to take once it was done, and says what it would do next instead of acting on its own or on another agent's approval. Requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later.
Auto-review no longer counts a Bot saving or editing one of its routines as risky by itself.
Auto-review approval cards in Slack describe the action, as they do in the app.
Scheduling uses the calendar you've connected, Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar, and offers to connect one only when neither is.
In a chat only you can see, a Bot reads your own private files without asking first.
When a Bot installs a plugin while working, it can use the plugin's skills right away.
People not on a Team Bot's share list, including teammates, no longer have access to it until an owner shares it with them. (Teams)
Fixed
When a connector such as X adds tools or fields, Bots can use them without you reconnecting it.
A connector whose sign-in expired shows Authenticate in the app instead of Connected, matching what the Bot says. Requires Grok Bot 0.71.2 or later.
Images a connector returns as files reach the Bot as images, and other binary files are no longer read as garbled text.
X Money connects in one tap for more X accounts, and if it can't connect yours, the Bot says so instead of offering a sign-in.
When a Bot posts to Slack for you, such as from a routine, your phone isn't notified and its unread badge doesn't go up.
In Slack, when a safety check blocks a Bot's reply, the Bot says so and suggests trying a different message.
For most accounts, with Route traffic through this computer on, the connection comes back as soon as the Bot's computer wakes.
A Team Bot's routines can read Slack channels you and the Bot are both in, instead of refusing every read. (Teams)
When a Team Bot edits one of its own Slack messages, the message shows a muted (edited) label. (Teams)
Bots can build Pages, such as reports, memos, and dashboards, that you edit together or have the Bot keep up to date.
Why it matters: Bots can now produce shareable work products (Pages, videos) instead of only chat replies.
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Bots can build Pages, such as reports, memos, and dashboards, that you edit together or have the Bot keep up to date.
Bots can create videos from a description or from an image you share.
You can pin Library pages, files, and links to a Pinned section that stays at the top and syncs across your devices.
The dashboard's Pages section lists the Pages you've shared, where you can unshare or delete them.
Hovering over or focusing a Library row shows a preview with who sent the item, when, and who can see a Page.
Bots can pay with Shop Pay, through Shop checkout where a store accepts it and with a one-time Shop card elsewhere.
You can connect X Money in one tap from a chat, the connector page, or checkout, after signing in to X if no X account is linked.
Page owners can share a Page with their whole organization or with another team in it. (Teams)
Team admins can limit who can share Pages with everyone on the team. (Teams)
Team admins can turn on link previews that show a Team Bot's name, description, color, and shape wherever its link is posted. (Teams)
A keyboard shortcuts sheet opens with ⌘/ and from Help, the profile menu, and the command palette.
Typing > at the start of a composer line starts a block quote, and Backspace at the start of a quoted line lifts it back out.
You can reorder attachments in the composer by dragging them or by pressing Alt with the arrow keys.
You can connect Zoho CRM and choose your account's regional data center before you sign in.
Team admins can upload a team icon, shown in workspace selectors and on Team Bots. (Teams)
Team Bot owners and managers can let collaborators create routines from Configure. (Teams)
Pages can capture the pointer and fill the screen.
The GitHub connector can list your repositories, compare commits, list a pull request's commits, and read branch and issue comments.
The built-in Gmail connection can attach files to drafts and sends, reply all, add a note when forwarding, and set label colors.
Bots can create, update, or delete several Google Calendar events in one step, and edited events no longer shift to a different time.
Routines can read the Bot's inboxes.
A task the Bot hands off can create images and videos for the chat.
A shared Team Bot's welcome in a team or group chat includes a Chat with me link, and an owner-only Bot greets only its owner. (Teams)
Enterprise team admins can permanently delete a member's Grok Bot data from Manage Member Computers and Data in Security & Compliance, or through the Admin API. (Enterprise)
Improved
Cards in chat have a new design, from approvals and questions to files, links, and tables.
The Bot details pane is one column, with a profile you click to edit above Media, Computer, and Routines tabs.
Voice calls can draw on your earlier calls and recent chat with the Bot.
The Bot opens links before sending them and leaves out broken ones.
Auto-review approval cards describe the action in one sentence, name the app with its logo, and flag irreversible or sensitive changes.
When you name a service, the Bot shows that connector's connect card in its first reply.
When a connector signs you out or rejects a sign-in, the Bot says why, such as a restricted Google account, and how to fix it.
When a routine hits a signed-out connector, the chat shows that connector's Reconnect card, at most once a day.
Before a browser or desktop task that takes a few minutes, the Bot tells you it will take a while.
If you already shared a password or code in the chat, the Bot uses it instead of refusing to continue.
Pull requests, issues, and repositories mentioned in replies are links.
When the Bot asks how to pay, you choose on a card.
What a personal Bot saves to memory in one chat is remembered in all your chats with it, and only you can change it.
Deleting a Bot permanently erases its conversations, memory, routines, and attachments, and removes its Slack app.
The first email a Bot sends to someone new includes a one-click unsubscribe link.
In Slack, asking the Bot to investigate, research, or check something gets a researched answer instead of a quick reply.
Deleting your account first lists what you'd lose, and linking an already unified Grok account offers to merge into it instead of failing.
Source links in replies show as compact citation chips, and company names as ticker pills.
Number columns in chat tables line up on the decimal point, with header sublines, summary rows, and footnotes.
Files you send show as cards with their type, name, and size, and captioned images offer Copy and Download on hover.
Your reactions show the moment you tap them, and the message no longer shifts under your pointer.
The Library opens faster for people with many Team Bots.
Team Bots shared with you open straight to their saved conversation. (Teams)
Browser sign-in waits up to 20 minutes and offers Copy link, and Reopen link resumes the same sign-in instead of starting over.
Connect Apps shows each plugin's own logo, and setting up a plugin with your own OAuth client lists the callback URLs to register.
A webhook routine's menu shows its URL and key, and the key stays hidden until you reveal it.
Fixed
Scrolling back quickly through a long chat no longer stalls before older messages load.
Search results from further back in a chat open on the right message, even right after launch.
Desktop notifications show Bot replies as plain text with full links, and skip replies you already read on another device.
Voice calls survive network drops and crashes, pick your microphone back up when it reconnects, and the Bot can answer while you're muted.
Pressing Enter once while recording a voice note sends it.
Keyboard shortcuts, including ⌘F and the command palette, work while a Page is open, and the palette no longer closes the Page.
Pressing Back while a Page is open closes the Page and stays on its Bot, instead of jumping to the Bot you viewed before.
A Page's Share menu shows its current visibility, even after it changed on another device or the dashboard.
When a message can't be saved, the app says whether your computer is out of disk space.
The desktop app connects directly unless you've turned on a system proxy, which fixes loading behind some corporate proxies.
When sign-in can't connect, the app asks you to check your connection instead of saying it stopped waiting for your browser.
A new or reinstalled desktop app skips onboarding for an account that already finished it.
Typing a follow-up leaves an open question card unanswered instead of answering it.
Bot names mentioned with @ in a reply open that Bot's chat.
Turning a Bot's tool on or off applies the state you saw, so an outdated list can't turn a blocked tool back on.
When creating a Bot or publishing a Bot template is refused, the app shows the reason.
Page cards and titles update as soon as the Bot renames a Page, and older Page cards open its latest version.
Connect Apps waits longer for your plugins instead of showing Couldn't refresh, and built-in plugins no longer offer an Uninstall that failed.
Buying credits, turning on auto top-up, and saving a spend limit show a confirmation or an error in the desktop app.
Reactions and card answers you add while a Bot is working stay after its turn ends.
An approval you don't answer in time leaves a chat line that names what expired.
Large Google Slides edits update the live deck.
Emails a Bot sends through Gmail show your name and the signature saved for that address, and reply drafts stay in their thread.
Bot pictures larger than about 3 MB now save.
A routine's result still reaches you if you send a message before the Bot finishes handing it off.
Pausing and resuming a routine keeps your last choice, even when you tap from two devices.
After an account merge, the remaining account keeps its Grok Bot email inbox and connector settings.
Also includes: Also includes 0.72.0, 0.72.1, 0.73.0, 0.73.1, 0.74.0, 0.75.0 and 0.75.1
Matt Palmer's steps to start a Grok Bot voice chat from the iPhone Action Button: Settings, Action Button, Shortcut, Choose a Shortcut, Grok Bot, Start Voice Chat.
Why it matters: One press starts a voice chat with your Bot.
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Set the iPhone Action Button to the Grok Bot Start Voice Chat shortcut.
What's new in Grok Bot: chat cards, X DMs, Tag @bot
Video chapters: New chat cards, Speed, Draft edits, Email aliases, X DMs, Tag @bot, Connectors, Voice calls, Notifications, Invites and Android Assistant, and Access lists, unread, routines, sign-in.
Bots can send from a tagged form of their email address, like name+shop@, and a routine on that tag runs only for its mail.
Why it matters: Tagged email addresses let one Bot run separate routines per inbox tag, and forms arrive prefilled.
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Bots can send from a tagged form of their email address, like name+shop@, and a routine on that tag runs only for its mail.
Forms a Bot asks you to fill in can arrive with known fields filled in, and you can edit them before you submit.
While a paid account merge is still moving this account's data, Settings shows Your accounts are being merged, with Contact Support if it runs long.
Team admins can turn off Messaging between Bots under Bot capabilities on the dashboard, so members' Bots can't message or hand work to other Bots. (Teams)
Enterprise team admins can recreate, terminate, or delete members' Grok Bot computers from Manage Bot Computers on the dashboard or through the Admin API. (Enterprise)
When a Bot's computer runs low on disk, the Bot tells you once, names the biggest files, and deletes them only if you agree.
Improved
While you use Grok Bot on a Mac or Windows PC, Bot replies and questions notify you there instead of your phone. Requires Grok Bot 0.70.2 or later.
You can attach files up to 250 MB and videos up to 1 GB, and the Bot says when a video is too large to watch. Requires Grok Bot 0.70.2 or later.
One message can carry up to 20 attachments instead of 6, and a notice says how many weren't added past the 200 MB total.
Images a Bot creates or captures, and files from cloud agents it started, load in the chat while its computer is asleep.
If a voice chat's connection drops, the call reconnects and continues the same conversation instead of ending.
Bots can use up to 200 skills from your installed plugins instead of 24, so skills from plugins you add are no longer left out.
When a Bot's computer is asleep, clicking the Computer is asleep preview wakes it in place, replacing the separate Wake button.
Grok Bot opens while the Bot's computer is still starting, instead of waiting behind a full-window Setting up Grok Bot's computer screen.
Sending while the Bot's computer wakes no longer shows Waiting to send… under your message or Waking your computer… in the message box.
Bots can archive, move, delete, flag, or mark many Outlook messages as read or unread in one step instead of one at a time.
At checkout, Bots use card details or photos you send in chat, asking only for missing fields or a verification code in a Secure Form.
When GitHub can't see a repository, the Bot stops retrying and gives you a link to the GitHub page where you grant access.
Bot searches on X with date limits, minimum likes or reposts, or filters X doesn't support now return posts instead of being rejected.
When a Bot asks you to choose with a question card, it no longer repeats the question and options in a message beside it.
Email drafts from a Bot's own address show attachments as file cards, marked when they can't be sent, changed since attached, are too large, or weren't scanned.
Merging accounts finishes when both accounts have files on the Bot's computer, keeping both sets and adding (from transferred account) to clashing file names.
In Team Bot Slack setup, Connect goes straight to Slack, Awaiting admin approval offers Resubmit, and a denied request shows when it was denied. (Teams)
When a Team Bot asks to use your connected account, the card explains the access covers only your own messages and others can't use it. (Teams)
Captions in the full-screen image viewer show formatting and clickable links, and images keep their size as you page between them.
In a Bot's info pane, the name reads as plain text until you hover or click to rename it, and screen readers announce it as editable.
On approval cards, the rule under labels such as Paused by your Ask first rule shows as plain text, without a box or quotation marks.
Animated Bot avatars in the sidebar and a chat's activity line move more smoothly.
When GitHub isn't connected, the Bot offers a single Connect GitHub action instead of listing every GitHub tool.
A voice call from your phone wakes the Bot's sleeping computer, so the Bot can work with what you said after the call.
Fixed
While the Bot's computer is asleep, Grok Bot keeps what it loaded and says Your computer is asleep instead of showing Couldn't refresh or connection errors.
When the Bot's computer updates, a working Bot reconnects to the new computer and keeps going.
When the Bot's computer fails to wake, the Bot says it couldn't start instead of retrying as if it were still starting up.
Images and files a Bot shares from its computer still load in the chat when the app can't fetch them from that computer directly.
Opening a file right after you send it shows its contents instead of File unavailable.
When the server fails an attachment upload, Grok Bot says Couldn't upload an attachment and keeps your draft, instead of asking you to check your connection.
When your computer sleeps, Bots treat it as disconnected within two minutes and say so right away, instead of waiting for commands to time out.
After a Wi-Fi, VPN, or other network change, Bots can run tasks on your computer right away instead of finding it unreachable.
Commands a Bot runs on your computer keep going through brief connection stalls and long waits instead of failing as temporarily unreachable.
If work is meant for one of your computers that's offline, the Bot tells you instead of running it on another computer without asking.
Background jobs a Bot starts on your Mac, such as a local server, keep running after the command returns.
Plugin and Auto-review settings changes keep reaching the Bot's computer after Grok Bot reconnects, instead of stalling until a restart.
When a Bot asks to wait on a command longer than the time limit, it's told the limit right away instead of timing out.
When a safety check blocks a Bot's reply, the chat shows Blocked by a safety check and Try a different message instead of a generic error.
Tables in Bot replies stay within the reply's width and scroll sideways when they need more room.
Attachments in one message that share a file name are numbered, such as report.pdf (2), so you can open or remove the right one.
On Windows, pasting text copied from a list into the message box keeps it inline instead of splitting it into extra paragraphs.
On Windows and Linux, text copied from a chat pastes into other apps with non-English characters and curly quotes intact.
Opening Grok Bot to a restored chat no longer flashes a Couldn't refresh bar above the message box.
Switching accounts or signing back in shows the app's loading frame instead of a blank white window.
Switching accounts while a queued message is canceled or refused no longer puts its text and attachments in the other account's message box.
Accounts without Grok Bot access finish setup and see just the access notice, without setup or load errors.
When the Bot you had open is deleted on another device, Grok Bot opens another of your Bots instead of an empty pane.
Deleting several Bots at once still deletes the rest when one fails, and the alert names only the Bot that failed.
Sidebar section changes that can't be saved stay put with Can't reach your computer and Retry, then save once your computer is reachable.
In the collapsed sidebar, a Bot list that can't load shows a warning icon with retry instead of text squeezed letter by letter.
The full-screen computer view no longer shows a cut-off snippet of a subagent's instructions or a Couldn't load subagents line.
When a Bot's routines fail to load, Couldn't load routines appears inside the Routines section of its details pane.
With the details pane open and no Bot selected, a failed primary Bot load shows Couldn't load and Try again.
When a Bot's skills can't be loaded, the @ menu no longer shows a Couldn't load skills row.
The sidebar's number shortcut badges no longer stay on screen after you change zoom with Cmd or Ctrl.
In the collapsed sidebar, the More unreads button is a circle with its arrow centered.
When you drag Bots or sections in the sidebar, screen readers announce their names and where they land.
Screen readers announce a Bot's reply even when it arrives after the announcement that the Bot stopped.
When you Tab to a link and its preview card opens, keyboard focus moves into the card.
When a Bot changes a routine while the app is briefly disconnected, the Routines list updates once it reconnects, without a reload.
After onboarding creates your primary Bot, the Introducing your primary Bot chooser no longer asks you to pick one again.
After you answer a request to use your computer, the Bot's sidebar row shows Allowed, Denied, or Expired instead of Permission required.
When you pause and keep talking in a voice chat, the transcript extends your line instead of repeating it, and leaves out noise tags.
Connector calls no longer time out after one minute: they wait up to two minutes for a reply, and longer while the connector reports progress.
Bots see the full parameters of tools on connectors from Grok, so they call those tools correctly instead of guessing.
Bots hit X's rate limit less often when searching X or reading posts, and a rate-limited call no longer counts toward your X read limit.
Bots work with a specific Stripe customer, invoice, subscription, or payment on the first try instead of hitting a missing parameter error.
Stop also ends a Bot's background subagents, so their results no longer wake the Bot afterward, and their pending approval cards expire.
When you hand the Bot's computer back with I'm done or Skip, the Bot posts its answer in the chat instead of sometimes staying silent.
Scripts a Bot runs in its browser no longer fail over extra or out-of-range settings, so browser tasks finish more often.
Secure Form fills fields on more websites, including inside embedded frames from other sites, instead of leaving them empty.
When a routine needs to sign in to a site, it asks you in chat at that step instead of quietly stopping.
Bots ask for logins and other multi-field details on one Secure Form instead of a secret request card that holds a single value.
Screenshot, computer, and browser actions keep working when you haven't connected 1Password, instead of failing on a saved-login check.
Messaging from another time zone updates the zone the Bot uses for schedules and reminders right away, unless you chose one under Timezone in Settings.
Bots with any shape the avatar editor offers, such as sparkle or star, can be shared as templates without the Bot changing its look.
Emails that arrive in a Bot's own inbox keep each link's web address, so the Bot can open verification and sign-in links.
Email sent to a Bot's own address arrives even when its subject, sender address, or thread references are very long.
After you choose Disable drafts for a Bot, it sends email from its own address right away, without a draft card.
After a Bot claims an email address, opening Email or Plugins shows it as Connected instead of still offering Connect.
When you allow a Team Bot to use one of your plugins, its tools work right away instead of the Bot failing to find them. (Teams)
Plugins on a Team Bot use the settings your team admin entered, such as a Datadog site, when the Bot has none of its own. (Teams)
A Team Bot still named New team bot with no description shows Draft, not Published to your team, until you rename it or add a description. (Teams)
Grok Bot works under your selected team even when another team you're on uses Privacy Mode (Legacy), as long as the selected team doesn't.
Account merges that move many Bots finish in one go instead of failing and showing Your account merge is taking longer than usual.
When a downloaded update is withdrawn, Restart to Update goes away and Grok Bot keeps your current version, even when you quit on a Mac.
An update download that keeps restarting from the beginning waits between tries and then stops with an error instead of retrying nonstop.
When the update server sends a broken response, Settings says The update server returned an invalid response instead of blaming your connection.
Restart to Update shows Restarting… and waits up to two minutes for commands a Bot is running on your computer to finish.
When an update replaces Grok Bot's files while it runs, reloading or crash recovery relaunches the app instead of showing a blank window.
On Linux deb and rpm installs, Update required links the latest package, leading with it when the package repository doesn't have the update yet.
On Windows and Linux, opening Grok Bot while it's still quitting reopens it after the quit instead of leaving nothing open.
GitHub tools stay available after a connection block and work once you reconnect, without starting a new chat.
When Gmail refuses to open a full thread, the Bot still answers from the thread's first message.
A connector that still needs Allow keeps its name, so the Bot asks you to allow it instead of saying it can't find it.
A Bot keeps its connector tools while its computer is asleep, starting up, or not created yet, instead of losing them for that turn.
What's new in Grok Bot: Bot's own email, better X, Shopify
Video chapters: Bot's very own email, Better X, Connect Shopify, More color, Email drafts, Bot's computer, Template search, PR previews and routine right-clicks, 5 new languages.
Bots can claim their own email address and receive mail there, and email they send from it waits for your approval on a draft card.
Why it matters: Each Bot gets its own email inbox and can search X without you connecting an account.
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Bots can claim their own email address and receive mail there, and email they send from it waits for your approval on a draft card.
Bots can search X and read posts and profiles without you connecting an X account.
Connectors that come with an app, such as Figma, Notion, and Canva, can show it as an interactive card in the chat.
Bots can pay with X Money or Stripe Link.
Bots can find a Bot template that fits what you describe and link it in the chat.
On Mac, View Unread in the View menu shows only Bots with unread messages in the sidebar.
Press Cmd+F or Ctrl+F on an open page to search it in a Find in page bar.
You can rename a page from its title, and the new name shows everywhere.
Shared pages have a title bar with Download, which saves a PDF, plus Try Grok Bot for visitors and Share for the owner.
Adding Glean asks for your Glean MCP URL and connects it after you sign in to Glean in your browser.
QuickBooks Online is available to connect.
Bots can save a web page as a PDF from their browser and send audio files such as MP3, M4A, and WAV.
The full-screen video player has a speed menu, and voice calls offer 0.5x speed.
Teammates can approve Auto-review requests, including Always allow, from their own direct message with a Team Bot. (Teams)
Improved
Before an action it can't undo, such as sending, posting, buying, or deleting, a Bot checks your own messages for approval.
Browser approval cards describe actions in plain words, such as Open a new tab in Grok Bot's browser, and a saved Allow rule applies the same way on every tool.
When more than one account could send an email, the Bot asks which address to use, then tells you the address it sent from.
When a sign-in emails a code or link, the Bot reads it from your connected Gmail or Outlook, or its own inbox, instead of asking you.
After a bank or brokerage connector returns data, the Bot asks before sharing it anywhere else.
Bots acknowledge your message before they start longer work.
Reactions sit on the message bubble, the quick row includes your recent emoji, and each person shows only their latest reaction.
Reply quotes show the quoted text and jump to the replied message when clicked, and selecting text shows an Add to chat pill.
While a Bot works with nothing to report, a 1:1 chat shows just its animated avatar.
While attachments upload, your message shows a Sending… bar that fills as the files upload.
The full-screen computer view opens in Watching until you press Take control.
When a Bot's computer is asleep, the Computer tab shows a Wake button that wakes it in place.
Computer settings separate Your computer from the Bot's computer, and Updates shows only app updates.
Updates to Grok Bot's computer run without status pills in the sidebar; you see a notice only if one leaves the computer unreachable.
After saving a routine, the Bot sums up what it does and who receives the result, and each run delivers there.
When you give a Bot a connector link, it installs the matching plugin from the catalog when there is one.
Connect Apps lists the most-installed plugins first, search also finds plugins whose description matches, and a search with no results says so.
Bots can wait for a background command on their computer to finish, shown as Waiting on results.
When GitHub refuses a repository or Vercel a team, the Bot suggests ones it can reach or asks you to reconnect.
Adding an MCP server on a private Tailscale network now explains that Grok Bot can't reach it yet and suggests exposing it with Tailscale Funnel.
Canvases and documents are both labeled Page.
Typing # in the composer no longer opens the pull request picker.
Fixed
Connector calls fail less often: Bots fix wrongly shaped arguments and accept Notion links and Slack channel names before sending.
When a connector rate-limits your account, Bots wait for the retry delay instead of calling it in a loop.
With 1Password connected, browser and computer actions retry through brief connection errors instead of stopping.
Slack, Gmail, and Outlook drafts retry through temporary rate limits and say if they still couldn't send.
Slack messages a Bot drafts no longer turn into one raw code block when sent.
Gmail drafts use your default send-as address and add your own signature, not one quoted from someone else.
Bot emails with non-English names or subjects no longer bounce, replies to them stay in the same thread, and small images in incoming mail are kept.
When Agent email is off for your team or account, the Bot says so instead of calling it a temporary problem.
Files and images Bots send from their computer arrive in the chat, ahead of any question card.
Opening a file while the Bot's computer is asleep wakes it and opens the file.
When chats, pages, skills, routines, or plugins fail to load, the app shows the error with Try again and keeps what it last loaded.
Search finds message text and attachment names in all chats, including the open one.
The open chat is marked read when you relaunch the app, come back to your computer, or click its row again.
While a Bot searches the web or reads pages, the chat and Slack show what it's doing, such as Digging around, instead of Working in Cursor.
The Bot's browser keeps downloads under their own file names and starts again after its profile folder is removed.
Outlook shows its Authorize card when a change needs more permission, and Bots stop retrying on deleted or protected items.
All-day calendar events stay on the right date, and Bots check your other calendars before saying an event is missing.
Plugins installed from chat or the web are ready on the Bot's computer, and local plugins such as Xero get the settings you entered.
Long messages show Show more right away, so opening a chat no longer jumps.
Publishing, sharing, or deleting a Bot, and adding one from a template, work while its computer is asleep or unreachable.
Switching chats or focusing the window no longer wakes a sleeping computer.
Switching accounts lands on the new account within seconds, even when another computer is asleep.
Pinned Bots stay in sync between the desktop and the phone.
If the window keeps crashing, Grok Bot offers to reload it or quit, and a window left blank after an update relaunches.
Bots no longer sign you out of a connector while repairing it, and a connector account you sign out of stays signed out.
When a model isn't available in your region, the turn stops and explains why, and Bots fall back to Grok.
In Slack, Bots answer messages whose thread they can't read, and asking a teammate's Bot no longer adds it to your sidebar.
Connecting Slack from the dashboard on grok.com now brings you back there to finish linking your Slack account.
In voice calls, the Bot knows today's date in your time zone instead of sometimes using tomorrow's.
On Linux, the app stays responsive and can quit while a notification is showing.
Usage & Billing shows your plan name on Current plan, and the usage meter labels its percentage as used.
Also includes: Also includes 0.69.0, 0.69.1, 0.70.0 and 0.70.1
What's new in Grok Bot: Main Bot, Team Bots in Slack
Video chapters: Main @Bot, Engineering updates, Knowledge work and Google connectors, Team Bots in Slack, Team Bot voice calls and status lines, Plugin search with Command K.
Marketplace is now Connect Apps, with category chips under the search, Recommended for you first, and Bot templates on the web.
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Marketplace is now Connect Apps, with category chips under the search, Recommended for you first, and Bot templates on the web.
While a Bot works, its status uses new phrases like Thinking it through and Working on your computer, without the Bot's name in front.
Approval cards show when your Ask first rule paused an action or Always allow added a rule, with Edit rule to change it in Settings.
Connected Google accounts show their email address instead of default on connector cards and in the account list.
On Windows, Use hardware acceleration is now on by default, as on Mac, and a choice you already made is kept.
Copy link on a Team Bot shares an x.ai link, and links you already shared keep working. (Teams)
Fixed
Connecting an app finishes even when another app is using its sign-in port, and a failed sign-in page explains why.
Connector cards that ask you to sign in again, or to add a second account, offer Authorize for that account instead of showing Added.
When a Gmail reply-all fails, the draft card says Message not delivered instead of showing it as sent.
Stop in Settings stops every running chat so Update unlocks, and a Settings page that fails after an update offers Restart.
Routine schedules no longer claim an interval that doesn't repeat, a failed pause or resume shows an error, and deleted routines' chips show (deleted).
The dock badge no longer counts unread messages from Bots that were deleted.
On Mac, the Back and Forward buttons on Logitech mice now work.
Sidebar avatars no longer freeze with one eye bigger than the other.
When a team admin turns off Route traffic through this computer, Settings → Computer says so, and a failed load of your team's settings offers Retry. (Teams)
Email and Slack draft cards offer Disable drafts for this Bot, so that Bot sends messages directly; ask the Bot to turn drafts back on.
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Email and Slack draft cards offer Disable drafts for this Bot, so that Bot sends messages directly; ask the Bot to turn drafts back on.
The creator of a published Team Bot can add teammates under Managers, who can then change its profile, skills, plugins, secrets, and Slack app. (Teams)
Improved
Bot avatars have a refreshed look with bigger eyes, and the avatar editor adds square, sparkle, clover, flower, heart, house, and star shapes.
Links in Bot messages show the site's icon next to the underlined link text.
When a Bot needs a login or other form filled, its chat card opens a Secure Form window showing the site's name and icon.
Select text in a chat and press Cmd/Ctrl+L, or choose Add to prompt, to quote it in your next message.
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Select text in a chat and press Cmd/Ctrl+L, or choose Add to prompt, to quote it in your next message.
Type - or 1. to start a bulleted or numbered list in the composer; Shift+Enter adds an item, Tab nests it, and Enter still sends.
Grok Bot underlines misspelled words as you type and offers suggestions and Add to Dictionary on right-click; turn it off with Check Spelling While Typing.
On the Manage Team Bots page in the dashboard, team admins can search by Bot or creator name and delete a teammate's Team Bot. (Teams)
Improved
A Bot's info pane has a Library tab listing the pages, files, and links it has shared, grouped into Today, This week, and Older.
When 1Password isn't connected, Bots ask for site logins with a form in the chat, offering Connect 1Password only if you have the app.
A Team Bot's info pane shows how many plugins, secrets, skills, and files it has, and a Publish to team card once it's ready. (Teams)
When your Slack workspace needs admin approval, the Add to Slack dialog asks you to Send request in Slack before showing Awaiting admin approval. (Teams)
Fixed
When a Bot asks you to connect an app in chat, it resumes the task on its own once you finish signing in.
A message that didn't go through shows Failed to send with Resend and Delete, instead of being stuck on Not delivered yet.
Desktop and phone notifications arrive as soon as a Bot sends a message, instead of only when it finishes working.
Emails a Bot sends through Gmail go to the recipients it names, not to a saved draft's original recipients.
Deleted Bots free their screens on the shared computer, so other Bots' browser actions no longer fail because every screen is taken.
When a Bot sends several images to Slack, every image is posted, not just the first.
A Bot stays signed in to websites when its computer's browser restarts.
Team Bots let you publish one Bot for your whole team, and teammates chat with it in the app or Slack, each in their own conversation. (Teams)
Why it matters: One Bot can serve a whole team in the app or Slack, each person in their own conversation.
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Team Bots let you publish one Bot for your whole team, and teammates chat with it in the app or Slack, each in their own conversation. (Teams)
Choose Publish to Team in a Bot's Share menu to make a team copy with its chat and memories, or Start fresh; your original Bot stays private. (Teams)
A new Team Bot walks you through plugins, secrets, skills, and files one card at a time, and only you can see it until you choose Publish to team. (Teams)
Owners edit a Team Bot's name, description, plugins, secrets, skills, files, and Slack app from its details, and Unpublish takes it away from teammates. (Teams)
Teammates find Team Bots under Team Bots in New chat, see the ones they add in the sidebar, and get a greeting with Try asking suggestions. (Teams)
A Team Bot asks before using your connected plugins; Always allow covers that Bot or every Team Bot until you choose Clear connector preferences. (Teams)
Teammates' use of a Team Bot counts against their own allowance, and the Bot keeps private notes for each person across the app, Slack, and routines. (Teams)
Team Bots work in Slack: they reply in threads, read channels they've joined, answer workflow mentions, start new posts, and keep links, code, and tables intact. (Teams)
Ask a Team Bot in Slack to set up, change, pause, or delete your routines; link your Slack account under Settings → General → Team Bots. (Teams)
Team admins can add a Team Bot for the whole team or chosen groups from Manage team bots on the dashboard, and members can't hide it. (Teams)
Fixed
Files a Bot says it's sending you reach the chat more reliably instead of silently going missing.
You can choose Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, or Norwegian Bokmål under Language in Settings, and Follow System selects them when your computer uses one.
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You can choose Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, or Norwegian Bokmål under Language in Settings, and Follow System selects them when your computer uses one.
With Terminate Inactive Computers on, members' Grok Bot computers are terminated after 30 days without use. (Enterprise)
Improved
Search and New chat are round buttons atop the sidebar, Marketplace sits in its footer, and the Bot's name in the chat header opens conversation details.
Grok Bot reconnects faster after sleep or a network change, and brief reconnects or computer updates no longer put a banner across the window.
Action Recording logs more Bot activity, including tool results and handoffs to subagents and cloud agents, and redacts card numbers and access tokens. (Enterprise)
Screen readers announce more of the app, including suggestions, new questions, and message authors, and keyboard focus is visible and stays inside full-screen viewers.
Fixed
When a Bot can't reply because of a usage limit, rate limit, or timeout, the chat shows a card that says why.
Anyone with Grok Bot access can play a Bot's voice memos without being asked to upgrade their plan.
Auto-review rules you add while a Bot is working, such as with Always allow, stay saved.
If you hang up a voice chat while a Bot is still working on your request, it finishes and posts the result in the chat.
A Bot can use a plugin whose only connected account has a label, such as a labeled Outlook account.
The sidebar keeps your Bots in the same order through reloads and relaunches, and opening a Bot leaves it in place.
Voice chats use the microphone you choose under Microphone in Settings, and fall back to your default microphone if it's unavailable.
Bots reconnect to your local computer after a reboot instead of reporting that it isn't connected.
A Bot can start a Project when you ask for one: a Cloud Agent that plans the work and runs its own agents.
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A Bot can start a Project when you ask for one: a Cloud Agent that plans the work and runs its own agents.
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Link cards and previews show real titles for private Notion pages, GitHub issues and pull requests, and Slack messages using your connected accounts.
While a Bot's voice memo plays, its transcript highlights each word in sync with the audio, and clicking a word jumps playback there.
Hidden Bots is a collapsible section at the bottom of the sidebar, and a hidden Bot's menu offers Show in sidebar to bring it back.
Messages you send show as sent right away, and a small progress bar appears only if one takes over two seconds to reach the Bot.
A Bot's sidebar menu drops Edit Profile, Duplicate, and template items; use View conversation details to edit the profile and the share menu for templates.
Audit Logs record more Grok Bot activity, including computers, group chats, templates, skills, plugins, routines, and deleting or sharing a Bot. (Enterprise)
Fixed
Bots reply to questions they can answer from their own knowledge instead of sometimes stopping without replying.
A Bot's browser stays connected when other Bots on the same computer use theirs, waits longer for slow pages, and reconnects if it drops.
A Bot's Waiting for you status in the sidebar clears once it's no longer waiting, instead of getting stuck.
A Bot's sidebar preview shows its latest message even when it's a form, photo, widget, or approval request, instead of going blank.
Bots can work with GitHub releases, tags, labels, sub-issues, discussions, and collaborators, create branches, and submit one pull request review covering several files.
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Bots can work with GitHub releases, tags, labels, sub-issues, discussions, and collaborators, create branches, and submit one pull request review covering several files.
Review an action cards say in one sentence what the Bot wants to do and keep the command and reasoning behind View the full request.
Spreadsheet previews let you select cells and ranges, move with the arrow keys, copy with Cmd/Ctrl+C, and show up to 10,000 rows.
When you tell a Bot to stop, it also stops the other Bots it handed work to and the Cloud Agents it started.
Fixed
Marketplace shows plugin changes, such as connecting, disconnecting, removing, or signing in, as soon as they finish.
Routines that watch a single GitHub pull request run only for events on that pull request.
Changing a Bot's avatar shape and color applies every pick right away, even when you click through them quickly.
One-time reminder routines show Once with their date and time.
Bot computers that are asleep apply an admin's latest Network Controls when they next wake. (Enterprise)
The Grok Bot dashboard's Setup Checklist groups steps into Recommended and Optional and adds steps for plugins, Slack or Microsoft Teams, and network settings. (Teams)
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The Grok Bot dashboard's Setup Checklist groups steps into Recommended and Optional and adds steps for plugins, Slack or Microsoft Teams, and network settings. (Teams)
The About dialog shows when your copy of the app was built, and Copy version info includes the build date.
Fixed
Disconnect on the built-in GitHub plugin works even when your Grok Bot computer is unavailable or running an older version.
When a Bot fills your answers from a chat form into a page, it also fills address and other fields that unlock only when clicked.
On sign-in pages that keep fields filled while logging you in, the Bot checks whether a 1Password sign-in worked instead of handing you the screen.
Organization admins can choose Delete VMs and Data under Manage selected to remove members' Grok Bot computers along with their stored data. (Enterprise)
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Organization admins can choose Delete VMs and Data under Manage selected to remove members' Grok Bot computers along with their stored data. (Enterprise)
Improved
The search palette (Cmd/Ctrl+K) shows matching Bots, settings, actions, and routines before messages; wrap your search in quotes to see every matching message.
A Bot you create from a template greets you in your app language instead of always in English.
Fixed
HEIC and HEIF photos, like those from an iPhone, show as images in the conversation, media viewer, and Media tab instead of as file attachments.
Bots sign in with 1Password on more sites and let 1Password fill one-time codes and passwords instead of asking you to type them.
The built-in GitHub plugin appears in Marketplace search with a Connect button, and its page lists its tools so you can turn each one off.
Secret request cards say why a save failed and keep what you typed so you can try again.
When your Bot needs access to a repository, a card lets you connect GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps, and the Bot continues once access is granted.
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When your Bot needs access to a repository, a card lets you connect GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps, and the Bot continues once access is granted.
Click a file path in a message to open that file from your Bot's computer.
Improved
Search shows everything in one list, with files, links, and routines appearing once you type.
Pictures and videos open full screen, with download, close, and playback controls.
Your Bot's computer keeps its browser sign-ins when it restarts.
Teammates who aren't admins can invite people to Grok Bot. (Teams)
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Messages keep their paragraph and list line breaks.
Connecting a service brings you back to Grok Bot, and a declined connection names the service.
Add more than one account and switch between them from the account menu; each keeps its own Bots and data on this computer.
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Add more than one account and switch between them from the account menu; each keeps its own Bots and data on this computer.
Add a Bot straight from its row in the Marketplace.
Enterprise admins with Conversation Insights see their team's top Grok Bot use cases on the Grok Bot page, with a link to the full breakdown. (Enterprise)
Improved
The Marketplace has one homepage for plugins and Bots, with featured picks, plugins popular with your team, and categories to browse.
Marketplace search finds plugins, Bots, and categories as you type.
Fixed
Connectors that use an API key show Connected once they're connected.
A link to a Bot that's no longer available says so, and Back returns to the Marketplace.
Pick the app's language under Appearance, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Polish.
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Pick the app's language under Appearance, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Polish.
Type : in the message box to pick an emoji, or finish a short name with : to insert it.
Routines can start from a webhook, with their own Webhook URL and Webhook key.
Download an attachment from the message menu, or use Download all when a message has several.
Enterprise admins can save Team Setup scripts on the dashboard that run on every member's Bot computer. (Enterprise)
Enterprise admins can set a network access policy for their team's Bots from the dashboard. (Enterprise)
Improved
Dictation follows your system language, and Enter stops a recording.
Updating or recreating your Bot's computer explains that files and logins stay while installed apps and packages are removed.
Plugins opens with your plugins, category filters, and a Team Plugins section.
Fixed
Files search finds files on your Bot's computer, and says Search unavailable when it can't run.
Grok Bot reconnects to your computer after sleep or a dropped connection, so actions on it keep working.
When your sign-in expires, Grok Bot asks you to sign in again.