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Last time, I told you SpaceXAI had no
official per version changelog,

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and that getgrokbot.com stopped at August
31.

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That gap just closed.

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There's now an official Grok Bot feed at
x.ai/changelog/bot,

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and it shows five releases between
September 28 and October 2,

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2026.

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Version 0.62.0 through 0.66.0.

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This episode is brought to you by Jellypod
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We covered the Team Bots architecture, the
memory split, and the billing last time,

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so I'll skip that and go straight to
what's new.

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Start with the newest, version 0.66.0 from
October 2.

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You can now choose a primary Bot, marked
Main Bot with a star.

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Per the changelog, it checks in
proactively and coordinates work with your other

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Bots.

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One condition matters here: it requires
Grok Bot 0.59.0 or later.

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So if you're running an older copy, update
first.

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The practical idea is simple.

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Instead of you bouncing between six
specialist Bots, one of them becomes the front

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door.

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I'd pick the Bot that already knows the
most about your priorities.

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Next, version 0.64.0 from September 30
added something you should treat carefully.

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Email and Slack draft cards now offer
Disable drafts for this Bot.

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Turn that on and the Bot sends messages
directly, with no review step.

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If you want drafts back, you ask the Bot
to turn them on again.

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That's a real shift from approve first to
act first.

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My take, and this is interpretation, not
from the notes: only use it where a wrong

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message is cheap, like an internal status
channel.

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Don't use it on a customer email.

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Version 0.63.0, September 29, is about
approvals in Slack.

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When a Bot in a Slack thread needs your
approval, it now posts a Review an action

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card that only you can answer, instead of
dropping the action.

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You can also ask a Team Bot in Slack to
message one of your own Bots,

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and the reply comes to you privately in
Grok Bot.

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Both of those are tagged for Teams.

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The point is that a shared Bot in a shared
channel can ask permission without anyone

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else being able to click yes for you.

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Also in 0.64.0, the creator of a published
Team Bot can add teammates under

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Managers, who can change its profile,
skills, plugins, secrets,

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and Slack app.

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That means the Bot doesn't depend on one
person's availability.

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Avatars got a refresh with bigger eyes,
plus square, sparkle,

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clover, flower, heart, house, and star
shapes.

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And when a Bot needs a login or a form
filled, a Secure Form window opens showing

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the site's name and icon, which makes it
easier to check where you're typing a

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password.

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And the week opened with version 0.62.0 on
September 28, which is a pile of everyday

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composer upgrades.

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Select text in a chat and press Cmd or
Ctrl plus L, or choose Add to prompt,

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to quote it in your next message.

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Type a dash or one followed by a period to
start a list, with Shift Enter adding an

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item, Tab nesting it, and Enter still
sending.

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There's also spell check as you type,
which you can turn off.

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A Bot's info pane also gets a Library tab
listing pages, files,

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and links it has shared, grouped into
Today, This week, and Older.

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For Team admins, the dashboard now lets
you search Team Bots by Bot or creator name

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and delete a teammate's Team Bot.

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Now the changes that affect how reliable
this feels.

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Version 0.65.0 turned Automatic Updates on
by default, so Grok Bot restarts to apply

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updates while you're away.

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If you don't want that, go to Settings,
then Updates.

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Same release: your phone skips
notifications for a Bot you're viewing on your

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computer, and resumes once the computer
locks, sleeps, or sits idle.

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Teammates can also start a voice chat with
a Team Bot, and that call stays in their

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own conversation.

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Team Bot setup now goes card to card, with
labels like Step 2 of 5.

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The fixes might be the best part.

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In 0.66.0, a Bot that hangs on an
unresponsive command or computer stops itself with

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a note, and your next message picks up
where it left off.

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Phone notifications now fire once per Bot
reply, and never for chats you've deleted.

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In 0.63.0, after a Bot says it's on your
request and does the work,

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it now sends the result instead of going
quiet.

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When you use up your plan's included
usage, you see the usage limit notice instead

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of Bot failed to respond.

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Grok Bot also signs in on networks with a
TLS inspecting proxy,

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using root certificates installed on your
computer.

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And from 0.62.0, deleted Bots free their
screens on the shared computer,

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so other Bots' browser actions stop
failing because every screen is taken.

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Also, Gmail now sends to the recipients
the Bot names, not a saved draft's original

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recipients.

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Outside the Bot itself, SpaceXAI's API
docs show that Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0

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reached end of life on October 2, with
requests routed to Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

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at the same price, with higher accuracy.

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I want to be careful: the docs don't say
Grok Bot uses that model,

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so any benefit to Bot voice chat is my
inference.

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Same for Grok 4.7, which arrived September
21 on the API.

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I haven't seen a Grok Bot specific note
about it, so I'm not promising anything

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there.

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For a sense of how people use these, the
getgrokbot.com directory has two good

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examples.

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Lauren's dr eggbot designs Grok Bots and
holds them to a bar of one job,

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unslopped, verified, with no leftover
tools.

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And Can's Shepherd orchestrates coding
agents in Herdr, an open runtime.

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Both lean on tight scope, and that pairs
nicely with the new Main Bot as a

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coordinator.

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So here's what I'd do this week.

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One, update to at least 0.59.0 and star a
Main Bot.

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Two, if you run a Team Bot, add a Manager.

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Three, keep drafts on for anything
customer facing.

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And four, bookmark the official changelog.

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That's the episode, and I'll see you next
time.