Grok Bot 0.77.0: question cards, Vault payments and 1Password

Grok BotWhat's new#

Grok Bot 0.77.0: question cards, Vault payments and 1Password (Grok Bot; confirmed)#

Update Grok Bot and your Bots can ask several questions on one card, pick a default payment method, and fill 1Password logins without a shared vault. The changelog lists v0.77.0 dated Oct 26 ("Permissions, Vault payments, and question cards") and "Also includes 0.76.0." Calls are not listed. (confirmed)

Grok Bot 0.78.1: shopping cards, Shop Pay and subscription templates (Grok Bot; confirmed)#

Update Grok Bot for shopping product cards, Shop Pay in the Vault, and templates that cancel subscriptions you pick. The changelog lists v0.78.1 dated Oct 27 ("Shopping cards and subscription templates") and "Also includes 0.78.0." eric zakariasson posted at 7:27 PM ET Oct 28: "grok @bot 0.78.1 is now stable and rolling out!" (confirmed)

Grok Bot referrals earn a usage reset when a friend pays (Grok Bot; confirmed)#

US Premium, Super or Ultra subscribers can share a gift-icon referral link; friends get a 2-week Premium trial and each friend who starts paying earns the referrer one usage reset (pending, then added 7 days after payment, valid 6 months). Docs. Team, legacy Cursor/SuperGrok, and Apple/Google purchases are out. (confirmed)

How Claude Code's Boris Cherny works with Claude, in his own posts (Anthropic; confirmed)#

Wednesday profile from the Anthropic Desk. Cherny's public posts show a three-part brief: goal, effort, and check. (confirmed)

You can now text your ChatGPT dot over iMessage or RCS (OpenAI; confirmed)#

Pro users in the US can text their always-on ChatGPT dot over iMessage or RCS and get proactive updates back. @ChatGPT posted it at 1:30 PM ET; availability wording differs across OpenAI's pages (preview vs beta vs limited). Not end-to-end encrypted via Linq. (confirmed)

Grok Bot, Cloud Agents and Origin multi-service outage resolved (Grok Bot; confirmed)#

If a routine, cloud agent, Bugbot or Origin action failed between 5:15 and 7:13 PM ET on Oct 28, the status page marked the major multi-service outage resolved at 7:13 PM ET. Check those runs and rerun what failed. (confirmed)

Grok BotHow people are using it#

No new tip or workflow entries filed for this section today.

Grok BotThe digest#

Grok Bot#

• 0.77.0 is the lead. Multi-question cards, a Vault Payments tab, 1Password without a shared vault, Import Memory, Page delete for everyone shared with, longer Auto-review cards, and Teams sharing limits. Full quotes and update steps are in the entry. Phone calls are still not in the changelog. (confirmed)
• Referral program: usage reset when a friend pays. US Premium, Super or Ultra can share a gift-icon link; friends get a 2-week Premium trial; each paying friend earns one usage reset (pending, then added 7 days after payment, valid 6 months). Docs. Team, legacy Cursor/SuperGrok, and Apple/Google purchases are out. (entry) (confirmed)
• 0.78.1 on the changelog (also 0.78.0). Update, Oct 28: Shopping cards, Shop Pay in the Vault, and subscription templates. Staff say stable and rolling out. (entry) (confirmed)
• Calls Update. We added to the built-in-calls entry: Update, Oct 28: The 0.77.0 changelog is out and does not list calls. (entry)

Anthropic#

• Wednesday profile: Boris Cherny. Public posts on how he works with Claude Code (goal, effort, check). See the entry. (confirmed)
• Other Anthropic Desk copy. No READY morning desk files for additional Anthropic stories today (usage outage / desk miss). Nothing else filed here. (desk note, unverified beyond our queue)

OpenAI#

• Dot texting over iMessage/RCS. Limited US Pro beta/preview. Setup, Linq E2E caveat, SMS/group limits in the entry. (entry) (confirmed)