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Opinion: every desk's build-next pick this week is about what agents cost, break or buy. Ours is a Grok Bot purchase ledger with a claim button.

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Opinion

Reported

Grok Bot should turn Musk's purchase pledge into a receipt ledger

Install the extension, then ask Chat to compare open tabs or let Work fill forms, send messages, and group the pile.

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ReleasesConfirmed

ChatGPT Chrome tabs: Chat reads them, Work controls them

Plus and Pro can create Sites without a fixed count limit. Codex usage and storage limits still apply, including 10 GB per Site database.

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ReleasesConfirmed

ChatGPT Sites drops the fixed creation cap for Plus and Pro

Admins can turn on PR reviews that Anthropic says mostly finish in 6 to 10 minutes and pick Quick, Standard or Deep per repo. Eligible Enterprise orgs can claim $10,000 to $50,000 in credits.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code Review is out of preview for Team and Enterprise

Anthropic says a research model found the NIST curve seeds came from lrand48 and a clock, not a secret passphrase. Anthropic says no action is needed.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Claude finds NIST ECDSA curve seeds came from Unix timestamps

AnthropicLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Cursor CLI 2026.10.16 fixes the Windows worker crash

If your Windows PC was stuck on "Waiting for a worker," update the Cursor CLI and install Git for Windows. No WSL or open desktop app needed.

Ask a cloud agent for a dashboard or report and send your team a link. A beta Environments API also lets you script agent environments.

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Confirmed

Cursor cloud agents can now build shareable canvases

Staff say a fix is in the works but not live yet, and it hits every platform. Add links in Gmail yourself until then.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Gmail connector still turns your email links into Google redirects

Any API customer can now create a custom GPT-Live voice from a text prompt for free, plus nine new German, French, Hindi, Japanese and Korean presets.

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ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-Live voices: describe one in text, no recording needed

Staff say messages your Bots get from the Grok app show up as if you typed them, and an old scheduled task is a common cause. Delete it, don't archive it.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Old Grok app messages keep reaching some Bots; check your Grok Tasks

Update the app, then try the new themes and connectors. If you add Robinhood, Coinbase or eToro, set a trade rule first, because those can place orders.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Grok Bot update: 3x faster computer tasks, new look, new connectors

Staff say an upcoming update adds a prompt link that opens a Bot with your text already in the composer. It never sends on its own.

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ExplainersConfirmed

A Grok Bot link that pre-types a message is coming

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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Reported

Grok Bot this week: a faster app, X Chat, a new plan and two outages

Oct 12 to 16 in one read: what shipped in Grok Bot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT and Hark, what broke, what to do now, and what to watch the week of Oct 19.

Staff say Bots can now work through your X Chat inbox and message requests. Connect the X plugin and give your Bot clear rules before it touches anything.

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Confirmed

Grok Bots can now read your X Chat messages and requests

Four Hark users report Amazon orders going through while Grok Bot users hit Amazon's agent page. Hark hasn't explained, and what it means for your Amazon account is an open question.

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ExplainersReported

Hark users say it still shops on Amazon after the agent block

HarkLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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ReleasesConfirmed

U.S. university labs can apply for up to 30 free Business seats and GPT-Rosalind

Eligible academic labs at U.S. universities can apply for up to a year of sponsored ChatGPT Business Standard seats, with GPT-Rosalind after trusted-access approval.

Staff confirmed that turning off Sync Skills for Cloud Agents copied an old snapshot over one Mac user's ~/.cursor/skills. Staff say keep it off for now; check the Trash if it hit you.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor's skill sync can overwrite your local skills folder

Paris app founder Tom Eberle gave a coding agent a command line for his accounting software, and in one afternoon took uncategorized operations from 183 to 4 and attached 22 missing invoices, he says. He built the tool himself.

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WorkflowsReported

An agent that does the monthly books while the owner just approves

OtherLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

A sales rep who stopped opening Sales Navigator to find prospects

Grafana account executive Cam Wright pulls prospects from inside Claude or ChatGPT through Clay, lets an agent pick the best dozen, then sends them to a sequence.

OtherLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

A custom Slack emoji that hands any thread to Grok Bot

Roger reacts with a homemade :grok: emoji and their Grok Bot files the thread as an agenda item, a ticket or a draft reply.

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for home services: a daily call review and booking rate

How an Oklahoma HVAC and plumbing shop has Grok Bot sort every inbound call at 5 PM and report a booking rate it used to guess.

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

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Known issuesReported

Amazon shows Grok Bots an unauthorized-agent page; Musk says shop elsewhere

Amazon now shows some Bots an 'unauthorized AI agent' page, and its Conditions of Use forbid working around it. Musk says buy elsewhere, and pledges that SpaceX will cover Bot purchase mistakes; that pledge is not on Cursor's help pages.

METR can publish its risk findings on Anthropic without the company's approval. Our four-test check, built from Anthropic's list, works on any AI lab's safety claims.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic gives six METR evaluators employee-like access

AnthropicLast checked 15 Oct 2026

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ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Platform now sends OpenTelemetry traces of your agents

Add one destination in the Claude Console and each Messages API call, Managed Agents turn and tool use shows up in your own observability tool, in beta.

The suits seek court-ordered changes to ChatGPT. Until a court acts, here is what parental controls can and can't do for a teen today.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety for kids

OpenAILast checked 15 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Elevated errors hitting Grok models in Cursor tonight

Grok model requests in Cursor's CLI, Cloud Agents and IDE hit capacity errors from 6:25 PM ET Oct 15. Cursor marked it resolved at 1:20 AM ET Oct 16. Grok Bot stayed Operational.

Pick a new language-native voice in Settings > Voice. OpenAI's system card says GPT-Live-1.1 is the default for Plus and higher, and Quip for everyone else.

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ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-Live-1.1 adds new voices to ChatGPT Voice

If Update keeps saying your computer's files aren't ready, your backup may be out of date. Keep working, copy key files off, and skip Reset.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Some Grok Bot computers can't save their backup, so Update stops; don't Reset, staff warn

Adcock's figure is unaudited. Here's how people use Hark Pro and its cloud browser, and where it still stumbles.

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ExplainersReported

Hark says Handoff passed 1 million browser sessions for Pro users

HarkLast checked 15 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Muse Wonder from Meta is now in Cursor's model picker

Cursor says it scores 46.1% on CursorBench, the highest of any Muse model. It costs $4 in and $20 out per million tokens, the same input and output rates as Opus 5.5.

Steal one recurring job from this Thursday showcase: client recaps, NDA filing, morning loose ends, Canvas grading, or a family meal plan.

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GuidesReported

Five weekly AI builds you can copy this week

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

A Monday 5 AM ChatGPT health report from Apple Health

Nicholas J. Nicastro has ChatGPT compare a week of Apple Watch data with past trends and his lab results every Monday at 5 AM.

OpenAILast checked 15 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

A daily Grok Bot ops report that replaces checking Vercel

@linxiaotao1993 gets one Vercel spend and errors report a day from Grok Bot: one line when all is clear, a numbered fix list when not.

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for machine shops: five Bots prep the office, people approve

How a third-generation Chicago machine shop owner has five Grok Bots prep RFQs, vendor prices, supply buys and a weekly scorecard, and approves every send.

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

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Known issuesConfirmed

Some @bot tags in X replies never reach your Bot

Staff say reply tags can be dropped with no answer from @bot, and they are tracking it. Paste the post link into your Bot's chat until it's fixed.

Bots you had before merging into The X Subscription should reply again. Messages sent while they were stuck won't run, so send a new one.

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Confirmed

Fix is out for older bots stuck after the account merge

If harmless calls keep asking for review, your team may be blocking the model Auto-review runs on. Admins can allow it or allowlist read-only commands.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor Auto-review's classify error is a timeout, not a risk call

A Bot that agrees to do something later may never wake up to do it, and a non-urgent nudge from another Bot won't wake it either. A one-time routine fixes both.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bots can drop "I'll do it later" promises, staff confirm

Leave a 200K+ token terminal session idle about 54 minutes and it compacts before the one-hour cache expires; plus a file-mentions env flag and a long fix list.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code 2.1.299: idle compaction before the prompt cache dies

If you run several Claude Code jobs side by side, update the desktop app: nested sessions, saved environments, and a sidebar that shows which session needs you.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code desktop rebuilt for running many sessions at once

Staff say the error is not a network problem: chat crashes before sending when the window has no project folder, and opening a folder directly fixes it.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor 3.24 chats fail with Connection failed when no folder is open

Staff are tracking an update bug on macOS 27 where the install never finishes and Cursor reopens on the old version.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor updates stall on macOS 27; reinstall from the download page

CursorUpdated 14 Oct 2026

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ExplainersConfirmed

GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 leave the OpenAI API on Jan 14

Hardcoded gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini calls stop in 92 days. OpenAI says move to gpt-6-luna and start at reasoning none.

OpenAILast checked 14 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok 4.7 requests stalled in Cursor this morning, staff say

Some Grok 4.7 runs hung or never answered from 2:20 to 3:50 AM ET, and slowness returned near 7:45 AM ET. Switch models if it hits you.

On some sites the password gets wiped or never filled, so sign-in fails. Ask for a Secure Form in chat, or use Take over and sign in once yourself while a fix is tracked.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot's 1Password fill fails on some sign-in pages, staff confirm

Cursor resolved the Oct 14 Grok Bot computer outage at 5:04 PM ET. Staff now say it began around 9 AM ET, and Update said files weren't ready because frozen computers couldn't be backed up.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot computers are reachable again after today's outage

Your one mail.grokbot.com address can now split into aliases like +receipts, and a routine can fire only for mail sent to one of them.

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Confirmed

Grok Bot email now takes plus aliases for sorting and routines

If you build an MCP server or plugin, you can now submit it for review to reach Grok Bot and Cursor users, with Grok listed as coming soon.

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Confirmed

Grok Bot is taking plugin submissions for MCP servers and connectors

SpaceXAI's new speech model tops an independent voice benchmark, and the company says it already powers Grok Bot's voice mode, so your next call with a Bot uses it.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Grok Voice 3.0 launches and now runs Grok Bot's voice chat

Engineering post: merges rose from about 2,500/day to over 30,000/day; Scion replaced git in five months. Not a product you can install.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic rebuilt source control for agent-scale merges

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs government AI MOU

Fifth APAC office is open and hiring; MOU covers model evaluation, skills for SMEs, and in-region Bedrock inference for regulated teams.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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TipsReported

Tip: have your Bot focus Grok Bot after each Mac job

Staff call it the same workaround they recommend for the Mac away drop, just automated, while the underlying behavior is still unfixed.

Grok BotLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

File weekly NDAs from Gmail into HubSpot and Drive

Sunnyvale's ChatGPT scheduled prompt finds executed NDAs in mail and reconciles them to the CRM company and the customer folder.

OpenAILast checked 14 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

Email yourself a Daily Loose Ends list each morning

champagnekofi's Claude Code routine gathers owed replies, Slack threads, and half-done work into one morning email skimmed in five minutes.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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WorkflowsReported

Build an Obsidian morning brief with Claude Code skills

James Wilkins's scheduled Claude Code routine maintains an Obsidian task vault and writes the daily note he runs his day from.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for sales: meeting to proposal, signature, invoice and chase

A SpaceXAI ambassador who also founded e-sign startup SumoSign shows his Bots turning a sales meeting into a proposal, a signature, an invoice and a 14-day payment chase. Our version keeps every send behind your yes.

Grok BotLast checked 14 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot 1Password reconnect fails with must be reconciled

Staff say the lock is in app memory after a failed connect, often from 1Password rate limits. Wait a day, trim the vault, quit fully, then connect once.

Staff confirmed the merge into The X Subscription can leave pre-merge bots and their routines silent. Don't reset or delete them; a fix is with the team.

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Known issuesConfirmed

After an account merge, older bots stick on Working on it

Grok BotUpdated 14 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor automations hit a platform-wide start limit for hours today

PR, Slack and webhook runs blocked by the limit were dropped, not retried. Here is how to find and re-fire them.

CursorUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Synced personal skills do not load inside Cursor automations

Staff corrected an earlier reply: typing the skill name is not enough. Put the skill in the repo, or paste its instructions into the automation.

Staff say Auto-review should have stopped the recursive delete and asked first. Until a fix, set Run Mode to Ask Every Time.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor agent rmdir hit a drive root after a quoting bug

New classifiers, preserved thinking and billing for blocked requests cut extracted reasoning tokens by 10 to 100 times.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Early evidence: Anthropic says distillation harvests fell 90 to 99 percent

AnthropicLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Gemini 4 Argon lands in Cursor at half the price of Opus 5.5

Google's new frontier model matches Opus 5.5 on CursorBench, per Cursor, and costs $2 in and $10 out per million tokens.

Staff reproduced empty star, fork, README, and file-list reads. Ask the Bot to use the GitHub API or its browser instead.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot sees 0 stars and an empty README on GitHub pages

OpenAI Codex staff raised the default from 272k and stopped long-context fees on subscription usage.

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Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol default context jumps to 500k in Codex and Work

OpenAI status says Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work was slow overnight; mitigation is in and recovery is being watched.

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Known issuesConfirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work degraded; mitigation monitoring

A planned server move around 4:30 PM ET rebuilt Grok Bot computers. Home folders and saved logins survived; system-wide apps and the browser profile did not.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot computers were rebuilt today; reinstall system apps

micro1's trust-focused leaderboard ranks six personal agents; Hark trails only OpenAI's Dots, and Brett Adcock says he wants first place.

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ExplainersConfirmed

PersonalAgentBench: Dots first, Hark second, Grok Bot tied fourth

HarkLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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ReleasesConfirmed

Managed Agents dynamic workflows fan out hundreds of tasks

Turn on multiagent_20261001 so an agent can write a background program that runs up to 1,000 agents in phases.

Cursor says teams can connect CI, deploy, review, security, monitoring, and project tools, and any developer-tool team can submit an app.

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Confirmed

Origin App Marketplace hits 20+ integrations and opens public submissions

Cursor staff say the fix for grok_ keys failing agent runs is live. Switch back to your new key and drop the older-key or browser-login workaround.

Confirmed

New permission-based Cursor API keys run CLI and SDK agents again

Staff say scheduled routines are flowing again since about noon ET, but runs missed this morning won't be replayed.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot routines were held back again Tuesday morning

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot routines need a Cursor plan with Automations, not SuperGrok

Staff confirm routine saves check your Cursor plan. On Start, or with only a SuperGrok link, the server refuses the routine.

Staff say the error is misleading when other Bots on the same computer still have screens. They are tracking it as a known issue.

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Known issuesConfirmed

All screens in use can mean one Bot's screen failed to start

Anthropic ran a 26B model across 15 $55 TV boxes and projects small models could reach end-to-end replication ability in its simplified tests by the end of 2026.

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ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic red team: small models near self-replicating on cheap IoT boxes

AnthropicLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Status page: Grok Bot event routines failed for hours today

Event triggers dropped from 1:52 to 4:29 PM ET Oct 13. Staff say the same shared webhook limit filled again Oct 16; retry with backoff.

Staff say Grok Bot still shows Something went wrong instead of a usage notice. Ask your admin before you Reset.

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TipsConfirmed

A generic Bot failed reply can mean your trial usage is gone

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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TipsReported

Keep the method in a skill, and put run data in a git repo

sughanthans1 keeps calendar, hooks, and post results out of the skill folder so the skill stays reusable.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

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TipsReported

Use Tailscale on the machine when the local helper keeps dropping

gshall's workaround reaches the computer without depending on the Grok Bot window staying connected. Staff called it valid.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Check every draft invoice was actually sent, every morning

Sunnyvale's daily scheduled prompt marks Google Sheets rows Sent only after QuickBooks shows a real send.

OpenAILast checked 13 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for property ops: bills, utilities and a platform switch

How a property management president has Grok Bot send vendor bills to AppFolio, check utility bills, and move owner records to a new platform.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

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ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code 2.1.296 adds longer 529 backoff and one model for workflows

Update to get the overload retry setting, a single model switch for workflow agents, and several permission and edit safety fixes.

If your org was refused on Oct 7 for hitting a spend limit it hadn't hit, Anthropic says that was its bug and it is fixed.

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Confirmed

Claude spend-limit pauses and usage-page errors on Oct 6 and 7, resolved

Codex tasks now run in isolated cloud workspaces that keep going while your laptop sleeps, plus PR review and repo scanning.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Codex Cloud, Code Review and Security Cloud ship together

Dots, announced Sep 29, keep working between chats; conversations are free, but Codex and Work tasks they start use your limits.

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Confirmed

ChatGPT dots: what the always-on agents cost you and how to start

Saved settings, scheduled tasks and scripts that pick gpt-5.5 need a new model in the next two days.

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TipsConfirmed

GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work and Codex on Oct 14

OpenAILast checked 12 Oct 2026

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ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-6 brings Intelligent UI to every ChatGPT plan

ChatGPT can now answer with diagrams, comparisons and working tools, and starts replying before it finishes thinking.

Before you swap the model ID, strip budget_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k and prefill, or requests fail.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Haiku 5.5 is out, and Haiku 4.5 code can return 400s

If you use Hark Pro, here is what early users hit in week one, what Brett Adcock says is fixed, and what to do meanwhile.

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Known issuesReported

Hark Pro known issues: fast-draining limits, GitHub and workspace bugs

Brett Adcock's Hark shipped a proactive assistant that runs its own cloud browsers to finish tasks. Every feature is free; paid plans only buy more usage.

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ReleasesConfirmed

Hark Pro launches free on web, iOS and Android

Staff confirmed the Mac Settings path and a Linux .deb. They have not said whether Windows gets the same unfocused fix. The changelog now lists 0.70.2 but doesn't mention this fix. A later staff reply still described the away rule; re-test on 0.70.2 before you rely on it.

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Confirmed

0.70.2 was said to keep your computer connected when you step away

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Local execution fails on Ubuntu 22.04 and Pop!_OS 22.04

Staff say the Linux build needs a newer C++ runtime than those systems ship. Chat and the cloud computer still work.

If your agent suddenly gets url_not_in_prior_context or url_not_allowed, here is what changed on Oct 7 and how to fix it.

Illustration: a magnifying glass with a long handle, outlined in light grey on black. — Illustration

TipsConfirmed

Managed Agents web_fetch now refuses URLs the session hasn't seen

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

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ReleasesConfirmed

OpenAI API: GPT-6.1 Sol pricing, Decisions beta, three usage tiers

A cheaper-cached mid-tier model, a beta typed-answer endpoint and simpler rate-limit tiers change API costs.

SendEmail works in the main chat but not in a routine run. Staff say use Gmail unattended, or hand the send back to chat.

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Known issuesConfirmed

Scheduled routines don't get the Bot inbox email tools

Long, repeated prompts on Sonnet 5.5 got cheaper on Oct 7. Anything still on Sonnet 4.5 has seven weeks to move.

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TipsConfirmed

Sonnet 5.5 cache reads now cost half, and Sonnet 4.5 retires Nov 30

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Use an email trigger when mobile hides webhook credentials

The phone app still doesn't show a webhook URL or key. BrexitBot's workaround is a mail.grokbot.com email trigger, or a forward into that inbox.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Hand Bot-inbox sends from a routine to the main chat

Scheduled runs can't see SendEmail for mail.grokbot.com. Staff say to draft in the routine, then approve the send in chat.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Sideload Grok Bot 0.70.2 on Linux until apt catches up

Staff posted a direct .deb for the away-fix build. The apt repo does not have it yet.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Turn a livestream into clips with a Claude Code skill

Brandon Davenport says a Claude Code skill turns his weekly X livestream into clips, saving 15-plus hours a week.

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for marketing: an SEO and AEO desk that mines topics and holds every draft

How Eric Siu's AEO/SEO Bot turns calls and posts into a weekly topic slate, screens it for duplicates and made-up stats, and waits for an exact yes to publish.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Work value 4/10

Confirmed

Grok Bot now starts at $30 on The X Subscription

New sign-ups need Premium for Grok Bot. Current Cursor and SuperGrok plans keep working, and switching is optional but can't be undone.

If a long-running script on your Bot's computer goes quiet for hours, the computer was paused. Make each run catch up and have a routine restart it.

Known issuesConfirmed

Background scripts freeze when the Bot's computer sleeps

Mac builds of 0.69.0, 0.69.1 and 0.70.0 sit on Cursor's download server, now listed in the changelog as part of 0.70.2.

Grok Bot 0.69 and 0.70 builds appear ahead of the changelog

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Copy on iOS garbles Chinese and other non-English text

Until the next iPhone update, use Select Text and the small iOS Copy menu instead of the app's Copy button.

Save a last-run time so a missed tick isn't lost, and let a routine restart your scripts after an update, as kevinn from Cursor's forum staff advised.

TipsConfirmed

Make background scripts catch up after the Bot's computer sleeps

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Search every Bot's messages at once

Press Cmd+K or Ctrl+K and put a keyword in quotes to find a past decision in any Bot's chat, as Colin from Cursor's forum staff explained.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Talk to your Bot in the car over Bluetooth

The Grok app in your car shows an upgrade screen on a Cursor plan. Use voice chat in the Grok Bot phone app through the car's Bluetooth, as staff suggest.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for engineering: a six-Bot mobile studio that ships, measures and fixes

How one developer split a live mobile game into six Bot seats with their own routines and handoffs, the job description he gave the analytics Bot, and the results he reports.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 4/10

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for finance: a bookkeeping Bot that prepares and an accountant who approves

How three people hand invoices, payments and a monthly P&L to a Grok Bot, what connects it to the books, and why each keeps a person on sign-off.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for founders and execs: an hourly attention list and a chief of staff that stays quiet

A SpaceXAI PM's setup for a Bot that tracks what you're working on and filters your inbox against it, plus a chief of staff that stays quiet.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for recruiting: inbound screening on fixed criteria and a pipeline stall watch

How a founder runs talent Bots against the same hiring criteria every time, how a recruiting CTO has a Bot find where candidates stall, and what to keep human.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for support: intake that a webhook or a Slack reaction starts

Three practitioners wire support tickets to Grok Bot with event triggers, hand bugs to a cloud agent and routine refunds to Stripe, and one says he gave up when the replies failed.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

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WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for teachers and students: score sheets, weekly email, and study tools

What working teachers and tutors say they hand to Grok Bot, from a score sheet and the week's email to a study tool, and the student data rules to settle first.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

Known issuesConfirmed

Email-triggered routines fail to save

If your Bot can't create a routine that runs when mail arrives, have it check the inbox on a schedule instead, as staff advise.

Forward an address like bot@yourdomain.com to your Bot's mail.grokbot.com inbox with Cloudflare Email Routing, as @wiiiimm did.

TipsReported

Put your Bot's email on your own domain

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Use skills and Ask first rules in place of Bot instructions

Desktop no longer has a per-Bot instructions field. Staff say role-named skills and Ask first rules are the closest stand-ins.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Reach Microsoft Teams through a Bot's own account

Staff say a Bot still can't post into Teams as itself. Use a Microsoft 365 user on the Bot's computer.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

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Needs re-check

Every Grok Bot user can now claim a mail.grokbot.com address

SpaceXAI launched Bot email on Oct 9 with a help page: one permanent address per user, claimed from chat, the Email plugin or a tag on X.

Oct 5 to 9 in one read: two releases, Bot email, built-in X search, Opus 5.5 routing, a day of failed replies and late routines, and what to watch the week of Oct 12.

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Needs re-check

Grok Bot this week: its own email, X tagging and a rough Thursday

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Nima Owji. First seen 2026-10-09.

Nima Owji, an independent app researcher, posted screenshots he says show X preparing an "X Subscription" that bundles X perks, Grok (including Grok Bot), and Cursor, with "ONE usage pool" across all three.

Since 0.68.1, a Bot can search your Spam folder and move a message back to the inbox.

TipsConfirmed

Have your Bot check Gmail Spam for real mail

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Find and edit your Bots' skills on desktop

The redesigned details pane hides skills, but Cmd+Shift+M still opens them under Private skills.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Have your Bot watch an X thread overnight

Tag @bot with what to rank and when to send it, as Lauren Tan did to get her post's best replies on Slack at 8am.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

WishlistShipped

Wish granted: switch between Grok Bot accounts

A user asked for one-click account switching on Sep 9. Lauren Tan said coming soon, and it shipped in v0.48.0 the same day.

Grok Bot works with 1Password. A Bitwarden user asked for the same.

Shipped in v0.48.0Asked by @Chaosai0

WishlistAsked

Wish: Bitwarden support alongside 1Password

Hours after Bot email launched, one user asked for new mail to reach the Bot like a push notification.

Asked by @bicendinh

WishlistAsked

Wish: Bots that notice new email without a routine

One user keeps sending half-written messages and wants Enter for a new line and Ctrl+Enter to send.

Asked by @bdvd_25

WishlistAsked

Wish: a setting to make Enter add a new line

One user asked for the Grok Bot phone app to rotate.

Asked by @MRrokirokosz

WishlistAsked

Wish: landscape mode in the mobile app

Three people asked for a way to rate Bot templates or see how many people use them.

Asked by @Reeve_dev

WishlistAsked

Wish: ratings and reviews for marketplace Bots

A user with Grok Bot on a different account from their Grok account asked to merge them. Lauren Tan replied: coming soon.

Asked by @EthPrincessBish, @zuoyou_ai, @JarretW

WishlistAcknowledged

Wish: merge a Grok account and a Cursor account

CursorUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Asked by @NeuralinkApe

WishlistAsked

Wish: connect more than one Gmail mailbox at once

Two people asked for a personal and a work Gmail side by side. The help center says Gmail connects one mailbox at a time.

One user asked for a built-in task list per Bot, with To Do, In Progress, and Done.

Asked by @pairothecat, @shutup_travis

WishlistAsked

Wish: a to-do list for each Bot

Ten people have asked publicly to see which Bot is using up the weekly allowance.

Asked by @kyle_m_joubert

WishlistAsked

Wish: show weekly usage per Bot

One user wants a single view of activity across all their Bots.

Asked by @nomoretriks, @BeachTesla, @Creainteractiva, @lexdiamond_hq, @finebutwhy, @DELLIGHT_AI, @Y3510X, @JackDocs, @zbballou, @ScottBuildsBots

WishlistAsked

Wish: one timeline of what every Bot is doing

One user wants alerts from their Bot as an X Chat message to their own account.

Asked by @melvindvivas

WishlistAsked

Wish: let a Bot message you in X Chat

How a SpaceXAI engineer has Bots launch and chase Cursor cloud agents, which routines keep the loop closed, and where to keep a human on the merge button.

Asked by @lgriao

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for engineering: supervising cloud agents, PR watches, and nightly audits

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for founders: design-partner scans, call prep, and one daily list

How an advisor to startup founders set up founder-led sales in Grok Bot, the routines that stage work overnight, and the conversations the guide says to keep for yourself.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for marketing: spend watches, reporting asks, and competitor briefs

The routines SpaceXAI's marketers run every morning, the one they say to start with, and why campaign changes stay drafts.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for operations: trackers, office logistics, and vendor spend

How Legal Ops, executive assistants, and office ops staff hand recurring upkeep to Grok Bot, and why every outbound message still waits for a person.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for recruiting: interview prep, scorecards, and sourcing batches

How SpaceXAI's recruiting team uses Grok Bot across the ATS, the coordinator routines in its public templates, and the candidate privacy rules they ship with.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for sales: a playbook for prospecting, sequences, and pipeline

What SpaceXAI's sales staff hand to Grok Bot, the routines they run, and the rule they all keep: the Bot drafts, you send.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 6/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for support and customer success: drafted answers, quiet watches, and call prep

What SpaceXAI's support and post-sales staff hand to Grok Bot, the watches that mostly say nothing, and why every customer reply waits for a person.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Turn built-in X search into a daily product feedback watch

Grok Bot can now search and monitor X without a connector. Here is a ready workflow for product and support teams: a weekday routine that sorts what people say about your product and stops before anything is filed or posted.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

Confirmed

"Bot failed to respond" errors after a computer Reset

Staff say the Oct 8 errors are fixed. If one Bot still fails while the others reply, see the safety filter issue.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Bots post a stray period instead of staying quiet

In a group chat, one Bot's lone period can set the others off, so watch your usage until staff ship a fix.

A Bot is a named AI teammate with one job, its own memory, and a shared cloud computer to work on.

ExplainersConfirmed

What a Grok Bot is, and when to make another one

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot plugin (or connector) is, and what it can reach

Plugins are the structured links between your Bots and services like Gmail, Notion, Slack, and GitHub.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot routine is, and what it costs to run one

A routine tells one Bot when to do a job on its own, on a schedule or when something happens.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot skill is, and how it differs from memory

A skill is a saved method any of your Bots can reuse. Memory is what one Bot remembers about its work.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

ExplainersConfirmed

What the Grok Bot computer is, and what lives on it

Every Bot you run works on one cloud computer with a browser, a terminal, and a shared /workspace folder.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Control what your Grok Bot can do with approvals and Auto-review

Write the stop point into your request, answer approval cards with care, and add narrow rules for actions you trust.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Use Grok Bot to start and manage Cursor cloud agents

Let a Bot gather the context and write the prompt, then hand the coding to a cloud agent and check its proof.

CursorLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Connect apps to a fleet of Grok Bots without over-sharing

Every connected account is open to every Bot you run. Connect less, start read-only, keep risky jobs on separate accounts, and revoke what you stop using.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, and Notion to Grok Bot

Add the plugins, sign in once, and know what each one can and can't do before your Bot sends anything.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

What to do when your Grok Bot is stuck, silent, or can't reach its computer

Work from the least destructive fix to the most, and know which buttons can cost you recent work.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Set approvals and permissions for a fleet of Grok Bots

Give each Bot its own stop points, keep the same hard lines across all of them, and know which Bots can't stop to ask.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Keep a fleet of Grok Bots from leaking usage

Hidden Bots still run their routines, duplicates copy them, and every Bot-to-Bot reply counts. A cleanup routine for when you run more than a few Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Get started with Grok Bot in 10 minutes

Install the app, give your first Bot one job, and check a real result before you automate anything.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Hand work between Grok Bots without the back-and-forth

Write the handoff map into each Bot, pass work on only when it meets a bar, and keep the record somewhere other than chat.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Make your Grok Bot weekly usage last the whole week

Know what draws from which pool, find the routines and group chats that spend the most, and set a cap you won't regret.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

One job per Bot, or one Bot for everything? How to decide

Cursor's docs give five reasons to split work into a new Bot. SpaceXAI's own teams show where one generalist still earns its seat.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Make Grok Bot routines stay quiet when nothing changed

A routine that reports "nothing new" every hour trains you to ignore it. Write the silence rule, define what counts as a change, and keep failures loud.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Run a team of Grok Bots without paying for the chatter

Start with one owner, add specialists when the work splits, and give every stage a single Bot in charge.

Grok BotUpdated 14 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Sign your Grok Bot in to sites without handing over passwords

Take over for passwords and codes, use secure forms and saved secrets for keys, and connect 1Password on a Mac.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Write a Grok Bot description and skills that keep it on its job

The description says what the Bot owns and refuses. Skills say how it does a task. Here's what goes in each, from Cursor's docs and SpaceXAI's published Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Set up your first Grok Bot routine without wasting usage

Prove the task once, save it as a skill, then schedule it, test it, and keep its approvals from expiring.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

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Known issuesConfirmed

Idle disconnects on the local computer, Mac and Windows

Reopened for re-test. Staff named a 0.70.2 fix for the unfocused case, but a later staff reply still described the away rule. Screen lock and scheduled-job restart stay open.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Missing MCP-Protocol-Version header on reused MCP sessions

If your remote MCP server returns empty 400s, have it fall back to the session's negotiated version until Grok Bot is fixed.

If a Bot fails during one of these, check status.cursor.com, then wait and resend instead of resetting.

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Confirmed

Opus 5.5 errors in Grok Bot on Oct 8

Grok BotUpdated 8 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Safety filter blocks that show as "Bot failed to respond"

If one Bot fails while your others reply, its chat may hold flagged security or biology content. Move new work to another Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Delays and failures in scheduled Grok Bot routines

Message your Bot to run time-sensitive routine tasks now, and leave routines switched on while staff restore scheduling.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Shopify connector for running your store

Connect Shopify and a Bot can check orders, track inventory, and keep product listings current for you.

Five labeled sections tell you which lines of a Bot's answer to double-check.

TipsConfirmed

A SuperGrok link can't be undone

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Ask your Bot to separate facts from assumptions

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Route a team of Bots through one front-door Bot

Josh Kim's three specialist Bots report to one Bot Boss, so updates arrive in one stream.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Have Dr Eggbot audit your routines for waste

Lauren Tan's template flags unused or expensive routines and can recheck them weekly.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Fix a company Google block by trusting the app named Grok

Your Google admin needs to approve an app called Grok, not Cursor or Grok Bot.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Use fewer Bots in a group chat to spend less

Every Bot reply counts toward usage, so name one owner per step instead of asking the room.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Tell the Bot what each attachment is before it starts

One line per file turns a pile of uploads into a task with a checkable result.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Give your Bot team a daily standup with an ops Bot

Lingxi Li's ops Bot meets each engineer Bot at 5 a.m. so rules don't fade.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Give each project its own channel, roster, and Notion board

Eric Zakariasson's manager Bot opens a channel per project and staffs it from existing Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Get past sites that block your Bot's cloud computer

Route traffic through this computer lets the Bot's browser use your own connection.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Keep routine approvals from expiring while you're away

Turn on notifications and add narrow rules so a routine's approval doesn't lapse after 10 minutes.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Run routines hourly, not every 15 minutes

Cutting a 15 minute routine to hourly drops it from 96 runs a day to 24.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Put hard rules in a Bot's description, not its memory

Rules in the description stay put, while memory is for preferences, Cursor's docs say.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Turn a finished job into a skill all your Bots can use

One sentence after a good run saves the method as a skill every Bot can reuse.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Connect a second Notion workspace and pick it by label

Some plugins hold two accounts you choose by name in chat. Gmail still holds one.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Sign your Bot in to Okta and other SSO apps

Laptop passkeys don't reach the Bot's computer, so you take over for the sign-in step.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Show a Bot a browser workflow once with Teach a task

Record up to ten minutes of clicks and the Bot drafts a skill you can edit.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Test a new routine instead of waiting for its first run

Press Test to see a new routine's output now, not at tomorrow's first scheduled run.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Start a routine from any app with a webhook

Any system that can send an HTTP POST can start a Bot's routine, and its JSON body reaches the Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Get a daily Slack digest of Grok Bot ideas from X

Lauren Tan's one-line prompt pairs Grok Bot's new X search with a 9am Slack message.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Turn the people you follow on X into a Notion CRM

Matt Palmer built one on his phone in 10 to 15 minutes from public profiles.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Signature check failures in the Windows in-app updater

Install Setup.exe from cursor.com/download/bot to update when the in-app updater rejects its own download.

You don't need to change anything, and Cursor says Opus 5.5 work costs the same per token.

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Confirmed

Grok Bot routes work to outside models, including Opus 5.5

Ignore the phone's Computer update available notice when the desktop app says your Bot's computer is up to date.

Known issuesConfirmed

Stale Computer update available notice in the phone app

Ask a Bot for a slide deck and get it back as a PowerPoint file or Google Slides, and send emails with real formatting.

ReleasesConfirmed

Slide decks, formatted emails, and a bigger Bot screen

Grok Bot 0.68.1

Illustration: a magnifying glass enlarging one post in a column of feed cards, in black and white. — Illustration

Confirmed

Built-in X search, reading, and monitoring

Ask any Bot to search X, read posts, or watch a topic on a schedule, with no X connector to set up.

A Grok Bot team member says the addresses will reach more accounts soon. Try asking your Bot to send an email.

Confirmed

Bots get their own mail.grokbot.com inbox in a gradual rollout

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

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Confirmed

Tagging @bot on X to send work to your Bot

Reply to any post with @bot and an instruction, and the request lands in your Grok Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

Five new languages and Gmail send-as addresses

Send Bot email drafts from a verified Gmail send-as address, and use Grok Bot in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Swahili, or Hausa.

Grok Bot 0.68.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Marketplace becomes Connect Apps

Version 0.67.0 adds category chips and puts Recommended for you first.

Grok Bot 0.67.0

Known issuesConfirmed

HTTPS-only outbound traffic on some Bot computers

Use HTTPS endpoints and clone git over HTTPS for now, because database, mail, SSH, and FTP connections time out.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Usage limits reset for all users, a third time

Earlier resets came on Aug 26 and Sep 5.

Suggestions don't count against your usage, SpaceXAI says.

Confirmed

Your primary Bot can offer to take work off your plate

Grok Bot 0.66.0

September 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

Automatic updates are on by default

Version 0.65.0 restarts Grok Bot to apply updates while you're away.

Grok Bot 0.65.0

Confirmed

Bots hand coding work to Cursor

New GitHub and Origin plugins manage pull requests, and Bots can share video demos.

One shared Bot for a whole team, in the app and in Slack, with private conversations for each person.

Confirmed

Team Bots enter public beta

Grok Bot 0.61.0

Confirmed

Finance integration links bank and card accounts

Accounts connect through Plaid with read-only access.

Reconnecting after a flaky connection fell from 60 seconds to 0.7, per the team.

Confirmed

53 performance fixes for the desktop app

SpaceXAI also improved reading and attaching files to emails.

Confirmed

Native Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors

SpaceXAI's announcement didn't say whether Grok Bot itself switched to the model.

Confirmed

Grok 4.7 is trained to understand Grok Bot

A Project is a Cloud Agent that plans the work and runs its own agents.

Confirmed

Bots can start Cursor Projects

Cursor 0.57.0

Confirmed

Bots can send voice notes

The transcript highlights each word as the memo plays.

Grok Bot 0.57.0

Confirmed

Voice chat with your Bots

It rolled out on desktop and mobile over a couple of days.

It started in the Mac app, and the Bot asks before each fill unless you turn on Auto fill.

Confirmed

1Password sign-ins for Bots

Grok Bot 0.53.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can be paused and resumed

Version 0.52.0 lets you stop a routine for a while without deleting it.

Grok Bot 0.52.0

Confirmed

Microsoft Teams connector

Bots can search and act across Teams for you.

The switch is in Settings, and team admins can turn it off.

Confirmed

Route a Bot's web traffic through your own computer

Grok Bot 0.50.0

Confirmed

Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay, and Granola connectors

SpaceXAI also published its own sales team's Bots as installable templates.

A Cursor staff answer says the weekly pool is cost-based, and Bot-launched cloud agents bill to your Cursor plan.

TipsConfirmed

What counts against your weekly usage

Grok BotLast checked 10 Sep 2026

Confirmed

Native iPad app and one-click account switching

The same roundup counted support for more than 20 languages.

The chat warns you near your weekly limit, and you can set a monthly on-demand cap.

Confirmed

Usage & Billing shows weekly usage

Grok Bot 0.46.0

Confirmed

Included usage goes about 10% further

SpaceXAI says heavy users get up to 35% more out of the same allowance.

A Bot writes the message as a card, and you Send or Discard it.

Confirmed

Email and Slack drafts you approve first

Grok Bot 0.45.0

Confirmed

Marketplace adds Bot templates, starting with Haggle Bot

SpaceXAI says its in-house procurement Bot saved it over $100K in its first week.

Grok Bot 0.41.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot for Enterprise

Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers got two weeks of free usage, including for people without a seat.

Grok Bot 0.40.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot comes to Android

The beta had started on desktop and iOS three weeks earlier.

Version 0.31.0 lets admins invite a whole team and lets you preview HTML files a Bot makes.

ReleasesConfirmed

Team invites, HTML previews, and no 50-Bot cap

Grok Bot 0.31.0

August 2026

Confirmed

Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive plugins

Bots can read, write, and act across your Microsoft accounts.

Recreate each skill on the new Bot by hand, because a Bot added from a template arrives without the skills its preview shows.

Known issuesConfirmed

Skills missing from Bots added from a template

Grok BotUpdated 12 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Connecting X creates a developer account

The account comes with some included API credits.

You choose whether your team or anyone with the link can add a copy.

Confirmed

Bots can be shared as templates

You approve each spend request, and the Bot gets a single-use card. It started in the US only.

Confirmed

Bots can buy things through Link

SpaceXAI reset weekly usage limits for everyone the same day.

Confirmed

All SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers get access

Version 0.25.0 lets individual plans set a monthly on-demand limit to None, Fixed, or Unlimited.

ReleasesConfirmed

On-demand limits and multi-select questions

Grok Bot 0.25.0

Confirmed

Access widens to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Teams

Everyone else can try Grok Bot with a limited free trial.

Each webhook routine gets its own URL and key. Version 0.21.0 also added a language picker.

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can start from a webhook

Grok Bot 0.21.0

Confirmed

Mobile notifications group by Bot

The same update made a Bot's remote computer easier to use from a phone.

Version 0.19.0 also lets you upgrade to Ultra or link SuperGrok Heavy when included usage runs out.

ReleasesConfirmed

The app says Bot instead of Agent

Grok Bot 0.19.0

Confirmed

Dictation arrives on Cmd+D

Press or hold the shortcut to talk into the message field. It's Ctrl+D on Windows and Linux.

Grok Bot 0.20.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can start from Teams, Linear, Sentry, and PagerDuty

Version 0.17.0, the oldest build on the official changelog, also caps a stalled connector at three minutes.

Grok Bot 0.17.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot opens as an early beta

The first wave covered SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium, on desktop and iOS.

Cursor staff say a Cloud Agents default saved as Grok 4.7 with Fast on applies to agents Grok Bot launches. Here's how to check it and turn Fast off.

250 stories

News

TipsConfirmed

Cloud Agents your Bot starts can inherit Grok 4.7 Fast

CursorLast checked 17 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor's /review-bugbot subagent always bills as Composer 2.5 Fast

Staff confirmed the review subagent ignores your model choice, including inherit. Here's how to keep a whole review on standard Composer 2.5.

Opinion: every desk's build-next pick this week is about what agents cost, break or buy. Ours is a Grok Bot purchase ledger with a claim button.

Opinion

Reported

Grok Bot should turn Musk's purchase pledge into a receipt ledger

Install the extension, then ask Chat to compare open tabs or let Work fill forms, send messages, and group the pile.

ReleasesConfirmed

ChatGPT Chrome tabs: Chat reads them, Work controls them

Plus and Pro can create Sites without a fixed count limit. Codex usage and storage limits still apply, including 10 GB per Site database.

ReleasesConfirmed

ChatGPT Sites drops the fixed creation cap for Plus and Pro

Admins can turn on PR reviews that Anthropic says mostly finish in 6 to 10 minutes and pick Quick, Standard or Deep per repo. Eligible Enterprise orgs can claim $10,000 to $50,000 in credits.

ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code Review is out of preview for Team and Enterprise

Anthropic says a research model found the NIST curve seeds came from lrand48 and a clock, not a secret passphrase. Anthropic says no action is needed.

ExplainersConfirmed

Claude finds NIST ECDSA curve seeds came from Unix timestamps

AnthropicLast checked 16 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Cursor CLI 2026.10.16 fixes the Windows worker crash

If your Windows PC was stuck on "Waiting for a worker," update the Cursor CLI and install Git for Windows. No WSL or open desktop app needed.

Ask a cloud agent for a dashboard or report and send your team a link. A beta Environments API also lets you script agent environments.

Confirmed

Cursor cloud agents can now build shareable canvases

Staff say a fix is in the works but not live yet, and it hits every platform. Add links in Gmail yourself until then.

Known issuesConfirmed

Gmail connector still turns your email links into Google redirects

Any API customer can now create a custom GPT-Live voice from a text prompt for free, plus nine new German, French, Hindi, Japanese and Korean presets.

ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-Live voices: describe one in text, no recording needed

Staff say messages your Bots get from the Grok app show up as if you typed them, and an old scheduled task is a common cause. Delete it, don't archive it.

Known issuesConfirmed

Old Grok app messages keep reaching some Bots; check your Grok Tasks

Update the app, then try the new themes and connectors. If you add Robinhood, Coinbase or eToro, set a trade rule first, because those can place orders.

ReleasesConfirmed

Grok Bot update: 3x faster computer tasks, new look, new connectors

Staff say an upcoming update adds a prompt link that opens a Bot with your text already in the composer. It never sends on its own.

ExplainersConfirmed

A Grok Bot link that pre-types a message is coming

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

Reported

Grok Bot this week: a faster app, X Chat, a new plan and two outages

Oct 12 to 16 in one read: what shipped in Grok Bot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT and Hark, what broke, what to do now, and what to watch the week of Oct 19.

Staff say Bots can now work through your X Chat inbox and message requests. Connect the X plugin and give your Bot clear rules before it touches anything.

Confirmed

Grok Bots can now read your X Chat messages and requests

Four Hark users report Amazon orders going through while Grok Bot users hit Amazon's agent page. Hark hasn't explained, and what it means for your Amazon account is an open question.

ExplainersReported

Hark users say it still shops on Amazon after the agent block

HarkLast checked 16 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

U.S. university labs can apply for up to 30 free Business seats and GPT-Rosalind

Eligible academic labs at U.S. universities can apply for up to a year of sponsored ChatGPT Business Standard seats, with GPT-Rosalind after trusted-access approval.

Staff confirmed that turning off Sync Skills for Cloud Agents copied an old snapshot over one Mac user's ~/.cursor/skills. Staff say keep it off for now; check the Trash if it hit you.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor's skill sync can overwrite your local skills folder

Grafana account executive Cam Wright pulls prospects from inside Claude or ChatGPT through Clay, lets an agent pick the best dozen, then sends them to a sequence.

WorkflowsReported

An agent that does the monthly books while the owner just approves

OtherLast checked 16 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

A sales rep who stopped opening Sales Navigator to find prospects

OtherLast checked 16 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

A custom Slack emoji that hands any thread to Grok Bot

Roger reacts with a homemade :grok: emoji and their Grok Bot files the thread as an agenda item, a ticket or a draft reply.

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for home services: a daily call review and booking rate

How an Oklahoma HVAC and plumbing shop has Grok Bot sort every inbound call at 5 PM and report a booking rate it used to guess.

Grok BotLast checked 16 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

Known issuesReported

Amazon shows Grok Bots an unauthorized-agent page; Musk says shop elsewhere

METR can publish its risk findings on Anthropic without the company's approval. Our four-test check, built from Anthropic's list, works on any AI lab's safety claims.

ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic gives six METR evaluators employee-like access

AnthropicLast checked 15 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Platform now sends OpenTelemetry traces of your agents

Add one destination in the Claude Console and each Messages API call, Managed Agents turn and tool use shows up in your own observability tool, in beta.

The suits seek court-ordered changes to ChatGPT. Until a court acts, here is what parental controls can and can't do for a teen today.

ExplainersConfirmed

Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety for kids

OpenAILast checked 15 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Elevated errors hitting Grok models in Cursor tonight

Grok model requests in Cursor's CLI, Cloud Agents and IDE hit capacity errors from 6:25 PM ET Oct 15. Cursor marked it resolved at 1:20 AM ET Oct 16. Grok Bot stayed Operational.

Pick a new language-native voice in Settings > Voice. OpenAI's system card says GPT-Live-1.1 is the default for Plus and higher, and Quip for everyone else.

ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-Live-1.1 adds new voices to ChatGPT Voice

If Update keeps saying your computer's files aren't ready, your backup may be out of date. Keep working, copy key files off, and skip Reset.

Known issuesConfirmed

Some Grok Bot computers can't save their backup, so Update stops; don't Reset, staff warn

Adcock's figure is unaudited. Here's how people use Hark Pro and its cloud browser, and where it still stumbles.

ExplainersReported

Hark says Handoff passed 1 million browser sessions for Pro users

HarkLast checked 15 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Muse Wonder from Meta is now in Cursor's model picker

Cursor says it scores 46.1% on CursorBench, the highest of any Muse model. It costs $4 in and $20 out per million tokens, the same input and output rates as Opus 5.5.

Steal one recurring job from this Thursday showcase: client recaps, NDA filing, morning loose ends, Canvas grading, or a family meal plan.

GuidesReported

Five weekly AI builds you can copy this week

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

A Monday 5 AM ChatGPT health report from Apple Health

Nicholas J. Nicastro has ChatGPT compare a week of Apple Watch data with past trends and his lab results every Monday at 5 AM.

OpenAILast checked 15 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

A daily Grok Bot ops report that replaces checking Vercel

@linxiaotao1993 gets one Vercel spend and errors report a day from Grok Bot: one line when all is clear, a numbered fix list when not.

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for machine shops: five Bots prep the office, people approve

How a third-generation Chicago machine shop owner has five Grok Bots prep RFQs, vendor prices, supply buys and a weekly scorecard, and approves every send.

Grok BotLast checked 15 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

Known issuesConfirmed

Some @bot tags in X replies never reach your Bot

Staff say reply tags can be dropped with no answer from @bot, and they are tracking it. Paste the post link into your Bot's chat until it's fixed.

Bots you had before merging into The X Subscription should reply again. Messages sent while they were stuck won't run, so send a new one.

Confirmed

Fix is out for older bots stuck after the account merge

If harmless calls keep asking for review, your team may be blocking the model Auto-review runs on. Admins can allow it or allowlist read-only commands.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor Auto-review's classify error is a timeout, not a risk call

A Bot that agrees to do something later may never wake up to do it, and a non-urgent nudge from another Bot won't wake it either. A one-time routine fixes both.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bots can drop "I'll do it later" promises, staff confirm

Leave a 200K+ token terminal session idle about 54 minutes and it compacts before the one-hour cache expires; plus a file-mentions env flag and a long fix list.

ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code 2.1.299: idle compaction before the prompt cache dies

If you run several Claude Code jobs side by side, update the desktop app: nested sessions, saved environments, and a sidebar that shows which session needs you.

ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code desktop rebuilt for running many sessions at once

Staff say the error is not a network problem: chat crashes before sending when the window has no project folder, and opening a folder directly fixes it.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor 3.24 chats fail with Connection failed when no folder is open

Staff are tracking an update bug on macOS 27 where the install never finishes and Cursor reopens on the old version.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor updates stall on macOS 27; reinstall from the download page

CursorUpdated 14 Oct 2026

ExplainersConfirmed

GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 leave the OpenAI API on Jan 14

Hardcoded gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini calls stop in 92 days. OpenAI says move to gpt-6-luna and start at reasoning none.

OpenAILast checked 14 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok 4.7 requests stalled in Cursor this morning, staff say

Some Grok 4.7 runs hung or never answered from 2:20 to 3:50 AM ET, and slowness returned near 7:45 AM ET. Switch models if it hits you.

On some sites the password gets wiped or never filled, so sign-in fails. Ask for a Secure Form in chat, or use Take over and sign in once yourself while a fix is tracked.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot's 1Password fill fails on some sign-in pages, staff confirm

Cursor resolved the Oct 14 Grok Bot computer outage at 5:04 PM ET. Staff now say it began around 9 AM ET, and Update said files weren't ready because frozen computers couldn't be backed up.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot computers are reachable again after today's outage

Your one mail.grokbot.com address can now split into aliases like +receipts, and a routine can fire only for mail sent to one of them.

Confirmed

Grok Bot email now takes plus aliases for sorting and routines

If you build an MCP server or plugin, you can now submit it for review to reach Grok Bot and Cursor users, with Grok listed as coming soon.

Confirmed

Grok Bot is taking plugin submissions for MCP servers and connectors

SpaceXAI's new speech model tops an independent voice benchmark, and the company says it already powers Grok Bot's voice mode, so your next call with a Bot uses it.

ReleasesConfirmed

Grok Voice 3.0 launches and now runs Grok Bot's voice chat

Engineering post: merges rose from about 2,500/day to over 30,000/day; Scion replaced git in five months. Not a product you can install.

ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic rebuilt source control for agent-scale merges

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs government AI MOU

Fifth APAC office is open and hiring; MOU covers model evaluation, skills for SMEs, and in-region Bedrock inference for regulated teams.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Tip: have your Bot focus Grok Bot after each Mac job

Staff call it the same workaround they recommend for the Mac away drop, just automated, while the underlying behavior is still unfixed.

Grok BotLast checked 14 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

File weekly NDAs from Gmail into HubSpot and Drive

Sunnyvale's ChatGPT scheduled prompt finds executed NDAs in mail and reconciles them to the CRM company and the customer folder.

OpenAILast checked 14 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Email yourself a Daily Loose Ends list each morning

champagnekofi's Claude Code routine gathers owed replies, Slack threads, and half-done work into one morning email skimmed in five minutes.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Build an Obsidian morning brief with Claude Code skills

James Wilkins's scheduled Claude Code routine maintains an Obsidian task vault and writes the daily note he runs his day from.

AnthropicLast checked 14 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for sales: meeting to proposal, signature, invoice and chase

Grok BotLast checked 14 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot 1Password reconnect fails with must be reconciled

Staff say the lock is in app memory after a failed connect, often from 1Password rate limits. Wait a day, trim the vault, quit fully, then connect once.

Staff confirmed the merge into The X Subscription can leave pre-merge bots and their routines silent. Don't reset or delete them; a fix is with the team.

Known issuesConfirmed

After an account merge, older bots stick on Working on it

Grok BotUpdated 14 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor automations hit a platform-wide start limit for hours today

PR, Slack and webhook runs blocked by the limit were dropped, not retried. Here is how to find and re-fire them.

CursorUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Synced personal skills do not load inside Cursor automations

Staff corrected an earlier reply: typing the skill name is not enough. Put the skill in the repo, or paste its instructions into the automation.

Staff say Auto-review should have stopped the recursive delete and asked first. Until a fix, set Run Mode to Ask Every Time.

Known issuesConfirmed

Cursor agent rmdir hit a drive root after a quoting bug

New classifiers, preserved thinking and billing for blocked requests cut extracted reasoning tokens by 10 to 100 times.

ExplainersConfirmed

Early evidence: Anthropic says distillation harvests fell 90 to 99 percent

AnthropicLast checked 13 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Gemini 4 Argon lands in Cursor at half the price of Opus 5.5

Google's new frontier model matches Opus 5.5 on CursorBench, per Cursor, and costs $2 in and $10 out per million tokens.

Staff reproduced empty star, fork, README, and file-list reads. Ask the Bot to use the GitHub API or its browser instead.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot sees 0 stars and an empty README on GitHub pages

OpenAI Codex staff raised the default from 272k and stopped long-context fees on subscription usage.

Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol default context jumps to 500k in Codex and Work

OpenAI status says Sol in Codex and ChatGPT Work was slow overnight; mitigation is in and recovery is being watched.

Known issuesConfirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work degraded; mitigation monitoring

A planned server move around 4:30 PM ET rebuilt Grok Bot computers. Home folders and saved logins survived; system-wide apps and the browser profile did not.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot computers were rebuilt today; reinstall system apps

micro1's trust-focused leaderboard ranks six personal agents; Hark trails only OpenAI's Dots, and Brett Adcock says he wants first place.

ExplainersConfirmed

PersonalAgentBench: Dots first, Hark second, Grok Bot tied fourth

HarkLast checked 13 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

Managed Agents dynamic workflows fan out hundreds of tasks

Turn on multiagent_20261001 so an agent can write a background program that runs up to 1,000 agents in phases.

Cursor says teams can connect CI, deploy, review, security, monitoring, and project tools, and any developer-tool team can submit an app.

Confirmed

Origin App Marketplace hits 20+ integrations and opens public submissions

Cursor staff say the fix for grok_ keys failing agent runs is live. Switch back to your new key and drop the older-key or browser-login workaround.

Confirmed

New permission-based Cursor API keys run CLI and SDK agents again

Staff say scheduled routines are flowing again since about noon ET, but runs missed this morning won't be replayed.

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot routines were held back again Tuesday morning

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Grok Bot routines need a Cursor plan with Automations, not SuperGrok

Staff confirm routine saves check your Cursor plan. On Start, or with only a SuperGrok link, the server refuses the routine.

Staff say the error is misleading when other Bots on the same computer still have screens. They are tracking it as a known issue.

Known issuesConfirmed

All screens in use can mean one Bot's screen failed to start

Anthropic ran a 26B model across 15 $55 TV boxes and projects small models could reach end-to-end replication ability in its simplified tests by the end of 2026.

ExplainersConfirmed

Anthropic red team: small models near self-replicating on cheap IoT boxes

AnthropicLast checked 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Status page: Grok Bot event routines failed for hours today

Event triggers dropped from 1:52 to 4:29 PM ET Oct 13. Staff say the same shared webhook limit filled again Oct 16; retry with backoff.

Staff say Grok Bot still shows Something went wrong instead of a usage notice. Ask your admin before you Reset.

TipsConfirmed

A generic Bot failed reply can mean your trial usage is gone

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Keep the method in a skill, and put run data in a git repo

sughanthans1 keeps calendar, hooks, and post results out of the skill folder so the skill stays reusable.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Use Tailscale on the machine when the local helper keeps dropping

gshall's workaround reaches the computer without depending on the Grok Bot window staying connected. Staff called it valid.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Check every draft invoice was actually sent, every morning

Sunnyvale's daily scheduled prompt marks Google Sheets rows Sent only after QuickBooks shows a real send.

OpenAILast checked 13 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for property ops: bills, utilities and a platform switch

How a property management president has Grok Bot send vendor bills to AppFolio, check utility bills, and move owner records to a new platform.

Grok BotLast checked 13 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

ReleasesConfirmed

Claude Code 2.1.296 adds longer 529 backoff and one model for workflows

Update to get the overload retry setting, a single model switch for workflow agents, and several permission and edit safety fixes.

If your org was refused on Oct 7 for hitting a spend limit it hadn't hit, Anthropic says that was its bug and it is fixed.

Confirmed

Claude spend-limit pauses and usage-page errors on Oct 6 and 7, resolved

Codex tasks now run in isolated cloud workspaces that keep going while your laptop sleeps, plus PR review and repo scanning.

ReleasesConfirmed

Codex Cloud, Code Review and Security Cloud ship together

Dots, announced Sep 29, keep working between chats; conversations are free, but Codex and Work tasks they start use your limits.

Confirmed

ChatGPT dots: what the always-on agents cost you and how to start

Saved settings, scheduled tasks and scripts that pick gpt-5.5 need a new model in the next two days.

TipsConfirmed

GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work and Codex on Oct 14

OpenAILast checked 12 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

GPT-6 brings Intelligent UI to every ChatGPT plan

ChatGPT can now answer with diagrams, comparisons and working tools, and starts replying before it finishes thinking.

Before you swap the model ID, strip budget_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k and prefill, or requests fail.

ReleasesConfirmed

Haiku 5.5 is out, and Haiku 4.5 code can return 400s

If you use Hark Pro, here is what early users hit in week one, what Brett Adcock says is fixed, and what to do meanwhile.

Known issuesReported

Hark Pro known issues: fast-draining limits, GitHub and workspace bugs

Brett Adcock's Hark shipped a proactive assistant that runs its own cloud browsers to finish tasks. Every feature is free; paid plans only buy more usage.

ReleasesConfirmed

Hark Pro launches free on web, iOS and Android

Staff say the Linux build needs a newer C++ runtime than those systems ship. Chat and the cloud computer still work.

Confirmed

0.70.2 was said to keep your computer connected when you step away

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Local execution fails on Ubuntu 22.04 and Pop!_OS 22.04

If your agent suddenly gets url_not_in_prior_context or url_not_allowed, here is what changed on Oct 7 and how to fix it.

TipsConfirmed

Managed Agents web_fetch now refuses URLs the session hasn't seen

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

OpenAI API: GPT-6.1 Sol pricing, Decisions beta, three usage tiers

A cheaper-cached mid-tier model, a beta typed-answer endpoint and simpler rate-limit tiers change API costs.

SendEmail works in the main chat but not in a routine run. Staff say use Gmail unattended, or hand the send back to chat.

Known issuesConfirmed

Scheduled routines don't get the Bot inbox email tools

Long, repeated prompts on Sonnet 5.5 got cheaper on Oct 7. Anything still on Sonnet 4.5 has seven weeks to move.

TipsConfirmed

Sonnet 5.5 cache reads now cost half, and Sonnet 4.5 retires Nov 30

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Use an email trigger when mobile hides webhook credentials

The phone app still doesn't show a webhook URL or key. BrexitBot's workaround is a mail.grokbot.com email trigger, or a forward into that inbox.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Hand Bot-inbox sends from a routine to the main chat

Scheduled runs can't see SendEmail for mail.grokbot.com. Staff say to draft in the routine, then approve the send in chat.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Sideload Grok Bot 0.70.2 on Linux until apt catches up

Staff posted a direct .deb for the away-fix build. The apt repo does not have it yet.

Grok BotLast checked 12 Oct 2026

WorkflowsReported

Turn a livestream into clips with a Claude Code skill

Brandon Davenport says a Claude Code skill turns his weekly X livestream into clips, saving 15-plus hours a week.

AnthropicLast checked 12 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for marketing: an SEO and AEO desk that mines topics and holds every draft

How Eric Siu's AEO/SEO Bot turns calls and posts into a weekly topic slate, screens it for duplicates and made-up stats, and waits for an exact yes to publish.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Work value 4/10

Confirmed

Grok Bot now starts at $30 on The X Subscription

New sign-ups need Premium for Grok Bot. Current Cursor and SuperGrok plans keep working, and switching is optional but can't be undone.

If a long-running script on your Bot's computer goes quiet for hours, the computer was paused. Make each run catch up and have a routine restart it.

Known issuesConfirmed

Background scripts freeze when the Bot's computer sleeps

Mac builds of 0.69.0, 0.69.1 and 0.70.0 sit on Cursor's download server, now listed in the changelog as part of 0.70.2.

Grok Bot 0.69 and 0.70 builds appear ahead of the changelog

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Copy on iOS garbles Chinese and other non-English text

Until the next iPhone update, use Select Text and the small iOS Copy menu instead of the app's Copy button.

Save a last-run time so a missed tick isn't lost, and let a routine restart your scripts after an update, as kevinn from Cursor's forum staff advised.

TipsConfirmed

Make background scripts catch up after the Bot's computer sleeps

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Search every Bot's messages at once

Press Cmd+K or Ctrl+K and put a keyword in quotes to find a past decision in any Bot's chat, as Colin from Cursor's forum staff explained.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Talk to your Bot in the car over Bluetooth

The Grok app in your car shows an upgrade screen on a Cursor plan. Use voice chat in the Grok Bot phone app through the car's Bluetooth, as staff suggest.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for engineering: a six-Bot mobile studio that ships, measures and fixes

How one developer split a live mobile game into six Bot seats with their own routines and handoffs, the job description he gave the analytics Bot, and the results he reports.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 4/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for finance: a bookkeeping Bot that prepares and an accountant who approves

How three people hand invoices, payments and a monthly P&L to a Grok Bot, what connects it to the books, and why each keeps a person on sign-off.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for founders and execs: an hourly attention list and a chief of staff that stays quiet

A SpaceXAI PM's setup for a Bot that tracks what you're working on and filters your inbox against it, plus a chief of staff that stays quiet.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for recruiting: inbound screening on fixed criteria and a pipeline stall watch

How a founder runs talent Bots against the same hiring criteria every time, how a recruiting CTO has a Bot find where candidates stall, and what to keep human.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for support: intake that a webhook or a Slack reaction starts

Three practitioners wire support tickets to Grok Bot with event triggers, hand bugs to a cloud agent and routine refunds to Stripe, and one says he gave up when the replies failed.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for teachers and students: score sheets, weekly email, and study tools

What working teachers and tutors say they hand to Grok Bot, from a score sheet and the week's email to a study tool, and the student data rules to settle first.

Grok BotLast checked 11 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

Known issuesConfirmed

Email-triggered routines fail to save

If your Bot can't create a routine that runs when mail arrives, have it check the inbox on a schedule instead, as staff advise.

Forward an address like bot@yourdomain.com to your Bot's mail.grokbot.com inbox with Cloudflare Email Routing, as @wiiiimm did.

TipsReported

Put your Bot's email on your own domain

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Use skills and Ask first rules in place of Bot instructions

Desktop no longer has a per-Bot instructions field. Staff say role-named skills and Ask first rules are the closest stand-ins.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Reach Microsoft Teams through a Bot's own account

Staff say a Bot still can't post into Teams as itself. Use a Microsoft 365 user on the Bot's computer.

Grok BotLast checked 10 Oct 2026

Needs re-check

Every Grok Bot user can now claim a mail.grokbot.com address

SpaceXAI launched Bot email on Oct 9 with a help page: one permanent address per user, claimed from chat, the Email plugin or a tag on X.

Oct 5 to 9 in one read: two releases, Bot email, built-in X search, Opus 5.5 routing, a day of failed replies and late routines, and what to watch the week of Oct 12.

Needs re-check

Grok Bot this week: its own email, X tagging and a rough Thursday

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Nima Owji. First seen 2026-10-09.

Nima Owji, an independent app researcher, posted screenshots he says show X preparing an "X Subscription" that bundles X perks, Grok (including Grok Bot), and Cursor, with "ONE usage pool" across all three.

Since 0.68.1, a Bot can search your Spam folder and move a message back to the inbox.

TipsConfirmed

Have your Bot check Gmail Spam for real mail

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Find and edit your Bots' skills on desktop

The redesigned details pane hides skills, but Cmd+Shift+M still opens them under Private skills.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Have your Bot watch an X thread overnight

Tag @bot with what to rank and when to send it, as Lauren Tan did to get her post's best replies on Slack at 8am.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

WishlistShipped

Wish granted: switch between Grok Bot accounts

A user asked for one-click account switching on Sep 9. Lauren Tan said coming soon, and it shipped in v0.48.0 the same day.

Grok Bot works with 1Password. A Bitwarden user asked for the same.

Shipped in v0.48.0Asked by @Chaosai0

WishlistAsked

Wish: Bitwarden support alongside 1Password

Hours after Bot email launched, one user asked for new mail to reach the Bot like a push notification.

Asked by @bicendinh

WishlistAsked

Wish: Bots that notice new email without a routine

One user keeps sending half-written messages and wants Enter for a new line and Ctrl+Enter to send.

Asked by @bdvd_25

WishlistAsked

Wish: a setting to make Enter add a new line

One user asked for the Grok Bot phone app to rotate.

Asked by @MRrokirokosz

WishlistAsked

Wish: landscape mode in the mobile app

Three people asked for a way to rate Bot templates or see how many people use them.

Asked by @Reeve_dev

WishlistAsked

Wish: ratings and reviews for marketplace Bots

A user with Grok Bot on a different account from their Grok account asked to merge them. Lauren Tan replied: coming soon.

Asked by @EthPrincessBish, @zuoyou_ai, @JarretW

WishlistAcknowledged

Wish: merge a Grok account and a Cursor account

CursorUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Asked by @NeuralinkApe

WishlistAsked

Wish: connect more than one Gmail mailbox at once

Two people asked for a personal and a work Gmail side by side. The help center says Gmail connects one mailbox at a time.

One user asked for a built-in task list per Bot, with To Do, In Progress, and Done.

Asked by @pairothecat, @shutup_travis

WishlistAsked

Wish: a to-do list for each Bot

Ten people have asked publicly to see which Bot is using up the weekly allowance.

Asked by @kyle_m_joubert

WishlistAsked

Wish: show weekly usage per Bot

One user wants a single view of activity across all their Bots.

Asked by @nomoretriks, @BeachTesla, @Creainteractiva, @lexdiamond_hq, @finebutwhy, @DELLIGHT_AI, @Y3510X, @JackDocs, @zbballou, @ScottBuildsBots

WishlistAsked

Wish: one timeline of what every Bot is doing

One user wants alerts from their Bot as an X Chat message to their own account.

Asked by @melvindvivas

WishlistAsked

Wish: let a Bot message you in X Chat

How a SpaceXAI engineer has Bots launch and chase Cursor cloud agents, which routines keep the loop closed, and where to keep a human on the merge button.

Asked by @lgriao

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for engineering: supervising cloud agents, PR watches, and nightly audits

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for founders: design-partner scans, call prep, and one daily list

How an advisor to startup founders set up founder-led sales in Grok Bot, the routines that stage work overnight, and the conversations the guide says to keep for yourself.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for marketing: spend watches, reporting asks, and competitor briefs

The routines SpaceXAI's marketers run every morning, the one they say to start with, and why campaign changes stay drafts.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 5/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for operations: trackers, office logistics, and vendor spend

How Legal Ops, executive assistants, and office ops staff hand recurring upkeep to Grok Bot, and why every outbound message still waits for a person.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for recruiting: interview prep, scorecards, and sourcing batches

How SpaceXAI's recruiting team uses Grok Bot across the ATS, the coordinator routines in its public templates, and the candidate privacy rules they ship with.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 3/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for sales: a playbook for prospecting, sequences, and pipeline

What SpaceXAI's sales staff hand to Grok Bot, the routines they run, and the rule they all keep: the Bot drafts, you send.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 6/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Grok Bot for support and customer success: drafted answers, quiet watches, and call prep

What SpaceXAI's support and post-sales staff hand to Grok Bot, the watches that mostly say nothing, and why every customer reply waits for a person.

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

WorkplaceNeeds re-check

Turn built-in X search into a daily product feedback watch

Grok BotLast checked 9 Oct 2026

Work value 2/10

Confirmed

"Bot failed to respond" errors after a computer Reset

Staff say the Oct 8 errors are fixed. If one Bot still fails while the others reply, see the safety filter issue.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Bots post a stray period instead of staying quiet

In a group chat, one Bot's lone period can set the others off, so watch your usage until staff ship a fix.

A Bot is a named AI teammate with one job, its own memory, and a shared cloud computer to work on.

ExplainersConfirmed

What a Grok Bot is, and when to make another one

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot plugin (or connector) is, and what it can reach

Plugins are the structured links between your Bots and services like Gmail, Notion, Slack, and GitHub.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot routine is, and what it costs to run one

A routine tells one Bot when to do a job on its own, on a schedule or when something happens.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ExplainersNeeds re-check

What a Grok Bot skill is, and how it differs from memory

A skill is a saved method any of your Bots can reuse. Memory is what one Bot remembers about its work.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

ExplainersConfirmed

What the Grok Bot computer is, and what lives on it

Every Bot you run works on one cloud computer with a browser, a terminal, and a shared /workspace folder.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Control what your Grok Bot can do with approvals and Auto-review

Write the stop point into your request, answer approval cards with care, and add narrow rules for actions you trust.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Use Grok Bot to start and manage Cursor cloud agents

Let a Bot gather the context and write the prompt, then hand the coding to a cloud agent and check its proof.

CursorLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Connect apps to a fleet of Grok Bots without over-sharing

Every connected account is open to every Bot you run. Connect less, start read-only, keep risky jobs on separate accounts, and revoke what you stop using.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, and Notion to Grok Bot

Add the plugins, sign in once, and know what each one can and can't do before your Bot sends anything.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

What to do when your Grok Bot is stuck, silent, or can't reach its computer

Work from the least destructive fix to the most, and know which buttons can cost you recent work.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Set approvals and permissions for a fleet of Grok Bots

Give each Bot its own stop points, keep the same hard lines across all of them, and know which Bots can't stop to ask.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Keep a fleet of Grok Bots from leaking usage

Hidden Bots still run their routines, duplicates copy them, and every Bot-to-Bot reply counts. A cleanup routine for when you run more than a few Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Get started with Grok Bot in 10 minutes

Install the app, give your first Bot one job, and check a real result before you automate anything.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Hand work between Grok Bots without the back-and-forth

Write the handoff map into each Bot, pass work on only when it meets a bar, and keep the record somewhere other than chat.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Make your Grok Bot weekly usage last the whole week

Know what draws from which pool, find the routines and group chats that spend the most, and set a cap you won't regret.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

One job per Bot, or one Bot for everything? How to decide

Cursor's docs give five reasons to split work into a new Bot. SpaceXAI's own teams show where one generalist still earns its seat.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Make Grok Bot routines stay quiet when nothing changed

A routine that reports "nothing new" every hour trains you to ignore it. Write the silence rule, define what counts as a change, and keep failures loud.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Run a team of Grok Bots without paying for the chatter

Start with one owner, add specialists when the work splits, and give every stage a single Bot in charge.

Grok BotUpdated 14 Oct 2026

GuidesConfirmed

Sign your Grok Bot in to sites without handing over passwords

Take over for passwords and codes, use secure forms and saved secrets for keys, and connect 1Password on a Mac.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Write a Grok Bot description and skills that keep it on its job

The description says what the Bot owns and refuses. Skills say how it does a task. Here's what goes in each, from Cursor's docs and SpaceXAI's published Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

GuidesNeeds re-check

Set up your first Grok Bot routine without wasting usage

Prove the task once, save it as a skill, then schedule it, test it, and keep its approvals from expiring.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Idle disconnects on the local computer, Mac and Windows

Reopened for re-test. Staff named a 0.70.2 fix for the unfocused case, but a later staff reply still described the away rule. Screen lock and scheduled-job restart stay open.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Missing MCP-Protocol-Version header on reused MCP sessions

If your remote MCP server returns empty 400s, have it fall back to the session's negotiated version until Grok Bot is fixed.

If a Bot fails during one of these, check status.cursor.com, then wait and resend instead of resetting.

Confirmed

Opus 5.5 errors in Grok Bot on Oct 8

Grok BotUpdated 8 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Safety filter blocks that show as "Bot failed to respond"

If one Bot fails while your others reply, its chat may hold flagged security or biology content. Move new work to another Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Delays and failures in scheduled Grok Bot routines

Message your Bot to run time-sensitive routine tasks now, and leave routines switched on while staff restore scheduling.

Grok BotUpdated 13 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Shopify connector for running your store

Connect Shopify and a Bot can check orders, track inventory, and keep product listings current for you.

Five labeled sections tell you which lines of a Bot's answer to double-check.

TipsConfirmed

A SuperGrok link can't be undone

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Ask your Bot to separate facts from assumptions

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Route a team of Bots through one front-door Bot

Josh Kim's three specialist Bots report to one Bot Boss, so updates arrive in one stream.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsReported

Have Dr Eggbot audit your routines for waste

Lauren Tan's template flags unused or expensive routines and can recheck them weekly.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Fix a company Google block by trusting the app named Grok

Your Google admin needs to approve an app called Grok, not Cursor or Grok Bot.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Use fewer Bots in a group chat to spend less

Every Bot reply counts toward usage, so name one owner per step instead of asking the room.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Tell the Bot what each attachment is before it starts

One line per file turns a pile of uploads into a task with a checkable result.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Give your Bot team a daily standup with an ops Bot

Lingxi Li's ops Bot meets each engineer Bot at 5 a.m. so rules don't fade.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Give each project its own channel, roster, and Notion board

Eric Zakariasson's manager Bot opens a channel per project and staffs it from existing Bots.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Get past sites that block your Bot's cloud computer

Route traffic through this computer lets the Bot's browser use your own connection.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Keep routine approvals from expiring while you're away

Turn on notifications and add narrow rules so a routine's approval doesn't lapse after 10 minutes.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Run routines hourly, not every 15 minutes

Cutting a 15 minute routine to hourly drops it from 96 runs a day to 24.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Put hard rules in a Bot's description, not its memory

Rules in the description stay put, while memory is for preferences, Cursor's docs say.

Grok BotUpdated 10 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Turn a finished job into a skill all your Bots can use

One sentence after a good run saves the method as a skill every Bot can reuse.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Connect a second Notion workspace and pick it by label

Some plugins hold two accounts you choose by name in chat. Gmail still holds one.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Sign your Bot in to Okta and other SSO apps

Laptop passkeys don't reach the Bot's computer, so you take over for the sign-in step.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Show a Bot a browser workflow once with Teach a task

Record up to ten minutes of clicks and the Bot drafts a skill you can edit.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Test a new routine instead of waiting for its first run

Press Test to see a new routine's output now, not at tomorrow's first scheduled run.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsConfirmed

Start a routine from any app with a webhook

Any system that can send an HTTP POST can start a Bot's routine, and its JSON body reaches the Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Get a daily Slack digest of Grok Bot ideas from X

Lauren Tan's one-line prompt pairs Grok Bot's new X search with a 9am Slack message.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

TipsNeeds re-check

Turn the people you follow on X into a Notion CRM

Matt Palmer built one on his phone in 10 to 15 minutes from public profiles.

Grok BotLast checked 8 Oct 2026

Known issuesConfirmed

Signature check failures in the Windows in-app updater

Install Setup.exe from cursor.com/download/bot to update when the in-app updater rejects its own download.

You don't need to change anything, and Cursor says Opus 5.5 work costs the same per token.

Confirmed

Grok Bot routes work to outside models, including Opus 5.5

Ignore the phone's Computer update available notice when the desktop app says your Bot's computer is up to date.

Known issuesConfirmed

Stale Computer update available notice in the phone app

Ask a Bot for a slide deck and get it back as a PowerPoint file or Google Slides, and send emails with real formatting.

ReleasesConfirmed

Slide decks, formatted emails, and a bigger Bot screen

Grok Bot 0.68.1

Confirmed

Built-in X search, reading, and monitoring

Ask any Bot to search X, read posts, or watch a topic on a schedule, with no X connector to set up.

A Grok Bot team member says the addresses will reach more accounts soon. Try asking your Bot to send an email.

Confirmed

Bots get their own mail.grokbot.com inbox in a gradual rollout

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Tagging @bot on X to send work to your Bot

Reply to any post with @bot and an instruction, and the request lands in your Grok Bot.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

ReleasesConfirmed

Five new languages and Gmail send-as addresses

Send Bot email drafts from a verified Gmail send-as address, and use Grok Bot in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Swahili, or Hausa.

Grok Bot 0.68.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Marketplace becomes Connect Apps

Version 0.67.0 adds category chips and puts Recommended for you first.

Grok Bot 0.67.0

Known issuesConfirmed

HTTPS-only outbound traffic on some Bot computers

Use HTTPS endpoints and clone git over HTTPS for now, because database, mail, SSH, and FTP connections time out.

Grok BotUpdated 9 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Usage limits reset for all users, a third time

Earlier resets came on Aug 26 and Sep 5.

Suggestions don't count against your usage, SpaceXAI says.

Confirmed

Your primary Bot can offer to take work off your plate

Grok Bot 0.66.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Automatic updates are on by default

Version 0.65.0 restarts Grok Bot to apply updates while you're away.

Grok Bot 0.65.0

Confirmed

Bots hand coding work to Cursor

New GitHub and Origin plugins manage pull requests, and Bots can share video demos.

One shared Bot for a whole team, in the app and in Slack, with private conversations for each person.

Confirmed

Team Bots enter public beta

Grok Bot 0.61.0

Confirmed

Finance integration links bank and card accounts

Accounts connect through Plaid with read-only access.

Reconnecting after a flaky connection fell from 60 seconds to 0.7, per the team.

Confirmed

53 performance fixes for the desktop app

SpaceXAI also improved reading and attaching files to emails.

Confirmed

Native Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors

SpaceXAI's announcement didn't say whether Grok Bot itself switched to the model.

Confirmed

Grok 4.7 is trained to understand Grok Bot

A Project is a Cloud Agent that plans the work and runs its own agents.

Confirmed

Bots can start Cursor Projects

Cursor 0.57.0

Confirmed

Bots can send voice notes

The transcript highlights each word as the memo plays.

Grok Bot 0.57.0

Confirmed

Voice chat with your Bots

It rolled out on desktop and mobile over a couple of days.

It started in the Mac app, and the Bot asks before each fill unless you turn on Auto fill.

Confirmed

1Password sign-ins for Bots

Grok Bot 0.53.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can be paused and resumed

Version 0.52.0 lets you stop a routine for a while without deleting it.

Grok Bot 0.52.0

Confirmed

Microsoft Teams connector

Bots can search and act across Teams for you.

The switch is in Settings, and team admins can turn it off.

Confirmed

Route a Bot's web traffic through your own computer

Grok Bot 0.50.0

Confirmed

Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay, and Granola connectors

SpaceXAI also published its own sales team's Bots as installable templates.

A Cursor staff answer says the weekly pool is cost-based, and Bot-launched cloud agents bill to your Cursor plan.

TipsConfirmed

What counts against your weekly usage

Grok BotLast checked 10 Sep 2026

Confirmed

Native iPad app and one-click account switching

The same roundup counted support for more than 20 languages.

The chat warns you near your weekly limit, and you can set a monthly on-demand cap.

Confirmed

Usage & Billing shows weekly usage

Grok Bot 0.46.0

Confirmed

Included usage goes about 10% further

SpaceXAI says heavy users get up to 35% more out of the same allowance.

A Bot writes the message as a card, and you Send or Discard it.

Confirmed

Email and Slack drafts you approve first

Grok Bot 0.45.0

Confirmed

Marketplace adds Bot templates, starting with Haggle Bot

SpaceXAI says its in-house procurement Bot saved it over $100K in its first week.

Grok Bot 0.41.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot for Enterprise

Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers got two weeks of free usage, including for people without a seat.

Grok Bot 0.40.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot comes to Android

The beta had started on desktop and iOS three weeks earlier.

Version 0.31.0 lets admins invite a whole team and lets you preview HTML files a Bot makes.

ReleasesConfirmed

Team invites, HTML previews, and no 50-Bot cap

Grok Bot 0.31.0

Confirmed

Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive plugins

Bots can read, write, and act across your Microsoft accounts.

Recreate each skill on the new Bot by hand, because a Bot added from a template arrives without the skills its preview shows.

Known issuesConfirmed

Skills missing from Bots added from a template

Grok BotUpdated 12 Oct 2026

Confirmed

Connecting X creates a developer account

The account comes with some included API credits.

You choose whether your team or anyone with the link can add a copy.

Confirmed

Bots can be shared as templates

You approve each spend request, and the Bot gets a single-use card. It started in the US only.

Confirmed

Bots can buy things through Link

SpaceXAI reset weekly usage limits for everyone the same day.

Confirmed

All SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers get access

Version 0.25.0 lets individual plans set a monthly on-demand limit to None, Fixed, or Unlimited.

ReleasesConfirmed

On-demand limits and multi-select questions

Grok Bot 0.25.0

Confirmed

Access widens to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Teams

Everyone else can try Grok Bot with a limited free trial.

Each webhook routine gets its own URL and key. Version 0.21.0 also added a language picker.

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can start from a webhook

Grok Bot 0.21.0

Confirmed

Mobile notifications group by Bot

The same update made a Bot's remote computer easier to use from a phone.

Version 0.19.0 also lets you upgrade to Ultra or link SuperGrok Heavy when included usage runs out.

ReleasesConfirmed

The app says Bot instead of Agent

Grok Bot 0.19.0

Confirmed

Dictation arrives on Cmd+D

Press or hold the shortcut to talk into the message field. It's Ctrl+D on Windows and Linux.

Grok Bot 0.20.0

ReleasesConfirmed

Routines can start from Teams, Linear, Sentry, and PagerDuty

Version 0.17.0, the oldest build on the official changelog, also caps a stalled connector at three minutes.

Grok Bot 0.17.0

Confirmed

Grok Bot opens as an early beta

The first wave covered SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium, on desktop and iOS.