Grok Bot 0.78.1: what's new

New

• Shopping with a Bot shows products as cards with photos, rating, price, and store, plus up to two badges such as Top rated.
• Three or four product results scroll in a carousel, and you can swipe through each product's photos.
• On a product page, in-stock options come first, options no store has are disabled, and Buy now starts an order you approve.
• After you place an order, the Bot tracks it and tells you when it ships or arrives, and shipment cards show the carrier and stage.
• Connect Shop Pay in the Vault's Payments tab, then pick it in Pay with or make it the payment method Bots use first.
• The Try it, don't pay for it template starts a free trial for you and cancels it, or reminds you, before it bills.
• The Find unused subscriptions template cancels plans you pick from the ones you still pay for, and Watch subscription prices checks renewal prices.
• Bots can cancel a subscription or look up its price and renewal date, and confirm with you before changing anything.
• On an Apple silicon Mac, the Intel version of Grok Bot offers to download the Apple silicon version.
• Editing a Vault contact offers Add email, Add phone, and Make primary.
• Bots can start cloud agents in a custom mode you name, and keep replying to them in it.
• In Share, Who has access lists your team and organization, and a Team Bot can be limited to Only you. Teams
• Managers can add logins to a Team Bot's own Vault in Configure, under Tools, and the Bot signs in with them for the team. Teams

Improved

• App cards, plugin rows, sign-in errors, and connector errors the Bot relays show the connector's name instead of an internal ID.
• The Bot's browser types one character at a time and moves the mouse on every website it fills in.
• On Cloudflare, Coinbase, Gusto, YouTube, Railway, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and TikTok for Business sign-in pages, the Bot offers that connector.
• In Slack, people whose account isn't linked learn that some features are limited and how to link it, including in threads the Bot follows.
• Where Grok Bot offered a free trial, it now offers Get Grok Bot with a unified plan and See Unified Plans.
• When a connector needs a permission its connection can't request, the Bot says reconnecting won't help.
• When you set up Grok Bot from X, the first reply no longer waits for all of your X data to load.
• Asking what a Bot can connect to leads with up to three apps to connect.
• Bots apply several Page edits at once, and leave the Page unchanged if any edit doesn't fit.
• Secure Forms that only ask for a sign-in code arrive without an extra explanation.
• Computer settings name the Bots that updating the computer would stop.
• Approval and draft cards no longer name the older Allow rule removed to make room on a full list.
• Connect apps lists apps you connected through Grok under From Grok, and every Connect button there has the same width.
• The Vault toolbar stays on one row with a More menu, and Vault settings use the same card style as other settings.
• Share in a Page header matches the Share button on Team Bots, and the share dialog's intro wraps more evenly.
• Attachments staged in the message box are more compact.
• In the full-screen viewer, captions sit closer to the image.
• The Add skills dialog no longer shows a Back button on its library step.
• The Get Grok Bot for mobile menu item is shorter in Portuguese.
• Usage breakdowns from a Bot label the catch-all row Deleted bots, group chats and other people's bots.
• When your team limits sharing, share controls say Only team admins can share Bots. Teams
• A team Page appears in the Library under every Bot that published it. Teams
• Team Bot Library rows show a Pin button on hover, and a pinned row keeps its pin visible. Teams
• When a Team Bot routine needs one of your connectors, it asks in the routine's Slack thread and tags you. Teams
• On the team dashboard, Bot computers groups setup scripts, setup files, and team secrets, and one Security & compliance card holds computer controls. Teams
• The team dashboard's Status card has Download and Copy link for the desktop app. Teams
• The Grok Bot admin page says Shared Bots, with Manage Shared Bots and Create Bot. Teams

• Copy on a reply keeps headings, lists, and links when you paste into Slack, Gmail, Docs, or Notion, and copied selections paste as markdown.
• Scrolling a long chat after you resize the window no longer jumps.
• Specific working statuses show right away, while generic ones like Working on it and Thinking wait a moment first.
• For a greeting, thanks, or small talk, the working status says "is on it" or "is working on it".
• Update installs the version you clicked, and an open Update ready dialog switches to the newest finished download.
• Update stays on Restarting… until the restart begins, and when a restart is refused, every Update button says why.
• Single-choice question cards show Something else again, so you can type your own answer.
• In question cards, Enter no longer sends your typed answer while an input method is still composing text.
• The Bot's computer card stays on Asleep during brief background wakes and shows Waking up… as soon as you wake it.
• A Bot can take back a reaction it added to your message, and the reaction comes off in the chat.
• Task lists and thread names refresh after the app reconnects instead of staying stale.
• Switching accounts no longer lets a late reply from the previous account change or pin the new account's main Bot.
• Clicking the current Bot in the sidebar closes an open Page.
• The Drop files to add to chat overlay no longer gets stuck when a Page opens or closes during a drag.
• Diagrams on a Page wrap long labels instead of clipping them, and lines meet each node at its own point.
• A pull request chip whose status can't load stays plain in the sentence, and its hover card offers Try again.
• The usage limit banner closes once you're back under your limit.
• Back from a connector returns to the screen you came from and keeps your Vault tab.
• After 10 minutes, a connect card asks Still signing in? instead of saying the sign-in didn't finish.
• When a connector is briefly busy signing in, its connect card and Slack sign-in link still appear.
• A connector sign-in that needs setup first says what to add and opens the plugin page.
• Signing in to a Google account that's already connected reuses it, with one reconnect card instead of several.
• Google Calendar asks you to reconnect only when signing in again can grant the missing permission.
• Connector tools stay listed when a connector changes while its tool list is loading.
• When a plugin isn't available, the Bot says so instead of listing the whole catalog.
• Connect cards for Railway, Square, TradingView, and Google Ads appear only on those services' own pages.
• Gmail drafts the Bot writes in plain text open in rich text, so they read well on a phone and send without hard line breaks.
• Gmail drafts and sends can attach a file from the Bot's computer in more cases.
• Bot emails retry once when the mail server connection times out.
• A Slack connect link opened while signed in to another account works once you sign in as the right account and connect again.
• Remove from Slack now disconnects Slack.
• With Route traffic through this computer on, Settings says when Grok Bot's computer is asleep and that routing reconnects when it wakes.
• With Route traffic through this computer on, pages no longer fail right away when only another host on them is refused.
• Approved browser actions no longer fail on some Bot computers when the page hasn't changed.
• The computer view follows the browser tab the Bot brings to the front.
• Saving a file from the Bot's computer shows Couldn't save this file if the file changes during the download.
• Files already saved in another chat, such as Slack uploads to a Team Bot, save in the new chat instead of failing.
• When the Bot's computer has been refusing saves, Reset and Recover keep the current disk instead of restoring an older backup.
• Grok Bot starts your computer while your accounts are being merged.
• Routines made in a new Bot's first chat run in your time zone instead of UTC.
• Two saves to the same memory at once no longer overwrite each other.
• Image creation stops with a clear error when a reference image can't be read, instead of ignoring it.
• Spend totals the Bot records use the right currency, so other currencies aren't counted as US dollars.
• Bots using the built-in code review tools act with your access and never approve your own pull request.
• Order cards leave out Ship to for orders that ship nothing, and orders through a store's connector pay with that connector's own options.
• The Tailscale plugin shows Not available yet on accounts that can't use it, instead of installing a plugin that can't connect.
• In Connect Apps, logos made of a single glyph show whole in their tiles.
• Under General, an account with no name shows Enter your name on the Account card.
• Clicking a webhook routine opens its details, including the webhook URL.
• In Turkish, emoji search matches a typed dotted I.
• Buying a plan during desktop sign-in returns you to the approval screen, so the app finishes signing in.
• Share works for people on more than one team with no team selected. Teams
• A Team Bot's Shared with your team list shows only Pages that Bot made. Teams
• Shared with you includes a large team's most-used Bots when the list is too long to show every Bot. Teams
• The Team Bots list loads when one access check times out instead of failing. Teams
• People on several teams with none selected can publish a public Bot template when their teams allow it. Teams
• Team Bots search Slack when asked instead of refusing after a note that other sessions can't be opened. Teams
• Team Bots explain correctly where a teammate's Slack channel listener reports. Teams
• A Team Bot tells managers they can change its name and picture from their own chat with it. Teams
• With Terminate Inactive Computers on, a computer counts as inactive after 30 days without a message to any of its Bots. Enterprise