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Grok Bot Updates: New Features & Changelog
Grok Bot ships several releases a week. This digest keeps the changes that affect how you pay for, set up and use Bots, each with its date and official source. The latest app release covered here is 0.68.1 from October 7, 2026.
Independent guide based on linked official documentation, drafted with AI assistance (how we work). Examples below are suggested workflows, not product benchmark results.
Grok Bot updates: October 2026 at a glance
| Date | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 | Grok, Cursor and X Premium plans were unified as The X Subscription. Grok Bot is included from Premium. | Announcement ↗ |
| Oct 9 | Bots can have their own email address for sign-ups, contacting businesses and scheduling. Rolling out; team admins must enable it. | Official post ↗ |
| Oct 8 | Shopify connection: check orders, track inventory and keep product listings up to date. | Official post ↗ |
| Oct 7 | Bots can search, read and monitor X. | Official post ↗ |
| Oct 7 | 0.68.1: slide decks delivered as PowerPoint or Google Slides, formatted emails from a draft card, Gmail Spam search, and a 1920 × 1200 screen on the Bot’s computer. | Changelog ↗ |
| Oct 5 | 0.68.0: email drafts can go out from a verified Gmail send-as address; Settings → Computer can remove your other computers. | Changelog ↗ |
| Oct 2 | 0.66.0 and 0.67.0: your primary Bot offers to take on work it spots, and Marketplace is renamed Connect Apps. | Changelog ↗ |
| Sep 30 | Bots can hand coding tasks to Cursor, manage pull requests with the GitHub and Origin plugins, and share video demos of what they build. | Official post ↗ |
| Sep 26 | 0.61.0: Team Bots, one published Bot that teammates use in the app or Slack. | Changelog ↗ |
Features announced in a post can reach accounts gradually. To see which release you are on, open Settings → Updates → Check for Updates; updating the app does not reset the Bot’s cloud computer. App updates ↗
Plans and billing
The largest change this month is commercial. New sign-ups now get Bot access through The X Subscription from the $30 Premium plan, and Bot usage draws on one weekly pool shared with Grok and Cursor. Existing Cursor, SuperGrok and X Premium+ plans continue until you choose to switch, and switching cannot be undone. Our pricing guide has the plan table and the checks to make before you switch.
Shopping and payments: how approval works
A Bot can research a product and place the order, but the documented payment path keeps you in the loop. When a Bot wants to buy something, a card shows the amount for you to Allow or Deny, and Link completes the payment (0.30.0, August 28). Pay with lets you choose a saved card from your Link wallet (0.33.0, September 1). A purchase you decline stays Declined and an unanswered one is marked Expired (0.35.0, September 2). Changelog ↗
Where a site needs a payment or identity check, the Bot can ask you to take over its computer for that step. The documentation advises against pasting passwords or one-time codes into the conversation. Computer and apps ↗
Our suggestions for a first order:
- Keep card numbers and card photos out of the chat. Use the approval card and a saved payment method instead.
- Before choosing Allow, check the amount, the seller, the delivery address and whether the price includes shipping and tax.
- Start with a low-value item, and ask the Bot to stop and report before checkout if the total differs from what you expected.
Email: from drafts to a Bot inbox
Email handling changed in steps over five weeks:
- September 8 (0.45.0): a Bot writes an email or Slack message as a draft for you to Send or Discard.
- September 26 (0.60.0): editable drafts work with Outlook.
- September 30 (0.64.0): a draft card offers Disable drafts for this Bot, after which that Bot sends directly. Ask the Bot to turn drafts back on.
- October 5 (0.68.0): drafts can go out from a verified Gmail send-as address, with a From picker.
- October 7 (0.68.1): formatted emails with headings, bold text and lists; Bots can search Gmail Spam and move a message back to the inbox.
On October 9 the Grok Bot account announced that a Bot can have its own email address. To claim an inbox, ask your Bot or tag @bot on X; on a team, an admin has to enable it first. How to claim it ↗
We suggest leaving drafts on for anything sent outside your organization until you have reviewed a few weeks of a Bot’s output.
X search, monitoring and tagging @bot
Bots can search and read public X content without a connected account: posts, an account’s posts and mentions, quotes and reposts, post counts and trends. That access is read-only and does not sign in as you. For direct messages, bookmarks, your home timeline or likes, add the X plugin from Connect apps and sign in with X. X access ↗
You can also tag @bot in a post or reply to hand that post to your Bot as a task. @bot posts only a short confirmation; the work and its results stay in the Bot’s conversation in the app. A tagged request uses your Bot usage, and nothing is returned once your weekly usage is used up. Tag @bot on X ↗
- Connect your X account on grok.com under Settings → Account, on the Grok account that has Bot access.
- You need at least one Bot you created. A Bot someone shared with you cannot take tagged requests.
- Tagging is not available for accounts based in Australia, the UK, the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.
- Posts with a video or GIF are ignored.
Slides, proactive help, Projects and Team Bots
- Slide decks (0.68.1): a Bot builds a deck with you, shows sample slides to choose from and delivers PowerPoint files or Google Slides.
- Proactive suggestions (0.66.0): your primary Bot, marked with a star, spots work it can take on and offers to handle it. Requires Grok Bot 0.59.0 or later.
- Projects (0.57.0, September 18): a Bot can start a Project when you ask for one: a Cloud Agent that plans the work and runs its own agents.
- Team Bots (0.61.0, September 26): publish one Bot for your whole team. Teammates chat with it in the app or Slack, each in their own conversation, and their use counts against their own allowance.
- Shopify (October 8): connect a store, then ask the Bot to check orders, track inventory and update listings.
Templates in the directory that use these features
These listings have a verified source link. A link check is not an execution test, so read a template’s instructions before adding it.
- Shopping: Deal Hunting and Credit Card Max.
- X monitoring: X Brief, Overheard and Tech Demos.
- Email: Tradbot and Product Support Inbox Assistant.
- Slide decks: Meeting Recap Deck and EBR & Value Deck Builder.
- Coding hand-offs: Lingxi’s Engineer Bot.
New to templates? Read how to import and share one, or browse the full directory.