Agent Breaking Changes_

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Grok Bot Smarter notifications and larger file attachments (0.71.2)

2026-10-14 · official notes

Summary

• Bots can send from a tagged form of their email address, like name+shop@, and a routine on that tag runs only for its mail.
• Forms a Bot asks you to fill in can arrive with known fields filled in, and you can edit them before you submit.
• While a paid account merge is still moving this account's data, Settings shows Your accounts are being merged, with Contact Support if it runs long.

Full notes

Also includes 0.71.0 and 0.71.1
New
Bots can send from a tagged form of their email address, like name+shop@, and a routine on that tag runs only for its mail.
Forms a Bot asks you to fill in can arrive with known fields filled in, and you can edit them before you submit.
While a paid account merge is still moving this account's data, Settings shows Your accounts are being merged, with Contact Support if it runs long.
Team admins can turn off Messaging between Bots under Bot capabilities on the dashboard, so members' Bots can't message or hand work to other Bots. (Teams)
Enterprise team admins can recreate, terminate, or delete members' Grok Bot computers from Manage Bot Computers on the dashboard or through the Admin API. (Enterprise)
When a Bot's computer runs low on disk, the Bot tells you once, names the biggest files, and deletes them only if you agree.
Improved
While you use Grok Bot on a Mac or Windows PC, Bot replies and questions notify you there instead of your phone. Requires Grok Bot 0.70.2 or later.
You can attach files up to 250 MB and videos up to 1 GB, and the Bot says when a video is too large to watch. Requires Grok Bot 0.70.2 or later.
One message can carry up to 20 attachments instead of 6, and a notice says how many weren't added past the 200 MB total.
Images a Bot creates or captures, and files from cloud agents it started, load in the chat while its computer is asleep.
If a voice chat's connection drops, the call reconnects and continues the same conversation instead of ending.
Bots can use up to 200 skills from your installed plugins instead of 24, so skills from plugins you add are no longer left out.
When a Bot's computer is asleep, clicking the Computer is asleep preview wakes it in place, replacing the separate Wake button.
Grok Bot opens while the Bot's computer is still starting, instead of waiting behind a full-window Setting up Grok Bot's computer screen.
Sending while the Bot's computer wakes no longer shows Waiting to send… under your message or Waking your computer… in the message box.
Bots can archive, move, delete, flag, or mark many Outlook messages as read or unread in one step instead of one at a time.
At checkout, Bots use card details or photos you send in chat, asking only for missing fields or a verification code in a Secure Form.
When GitHub can't see a repository, the Bot stops retrying and gives you a link to the GitHub page where you grant access.
Bot searches on X with date limits, minimum likes or reposts, or filters X doesn't support now return posts instead of being rejected.
When a Bot asks you to choose with a question card, it no longer repeats the question and options in a message beside it.
Email drafts from a Bot's own address show attachments as file cards, marked when they can't be sent, changed since attached, are too large, or weren't scanned.
Merging accounts finishes when both accounts have files on the Bot's computer, keeping both sets and adding (from transferred account) to clashing file names.
In Team Bot Slack setup, Connect goes straight to Slack, Awaiting admin approval offers Resubmit, and a denied request shows when it was denied. (Teams)
When a Team Bot asks to use your connected account, the card explains the access covers only your own messages and others can't use it. (Teams)
Captions in the full-screen image viewer show formatting and clickable links, and images keep their size as you page between them.
In a Bot's info pane, the name reads as plain text until you hover or click to rename it, and screen readers announce it as editable.
On approval cards, the rule under labels such as Paused by your Ask first rule shows as plain text, without a box or quotation marks.
Animated Bot avatars in the sidebar and a chat's activity line move more smoothly.
When GitHub isn't connected, the Bot offers a single Connect GitHub action instead of listing every GitHub tool.
A voice call from your phone wakes the Bot's sleeping computer, so the Bot can work with what you said after the call.
Fixed
While the Bot's computer is asleep, Grok Bot keeps what it loaded and says Your computer is asleep instead of showing Couldn't refresh or connection errors.
When the Bot's computer updates, a working Bot reconnects to the new computer and keeps going.
When the Bot's computer fails to wake, the Bot says it couldn't start instead of retrying as if it were still starting up.
Images and files a Bot shares from its computer still load in the chat when the app can't fetch them from that computer directly.
Opening a file right after you send it shows its contents instead of File unavailable.
When the server fails an attachment upload, Grok Bot says Couldn't upload an attachment and keeps your draft, instead of asking you to check your connection.
When your computer sleeps, Bots treat it as disconnected within two minutes and say so right away, instead of waiting for commands to time out.
After a Wi-Fi, VPN, or other network change, Bots can run tasks on your computer right away instead of finding it unreachable.
Commands a Bot runs on your computer keep going through brief connection stalls and long waits instead of failing as temporarily unreachable.
If work is meant for one of your computers that's offline, the Bot tells you instead of running it on another computer without asking.
Background jobs a Bot starts on your Mac, such as a local server, keep running after the command returns.
Plugin and Auto-review settings changes keep reaching the Bot's computer after Grok Bot reconnects, instead of stalling until a restart.
When a Bot asks to wait on a command longer than the time limit, it's told the limit right away instead of timing out.
When a safety check blocks a Bot's reply, the chat shows Blocked by a safety check and Try a different message instead of a generic error.
Tables in Bot replies stay within the reply's width and scroll sideways when they need more room.
Attachments in one message that share a file name are numbered, such as report.pdf (2), so you can open or remove the right one.
On Windows, pasting text copied from a list into the message box keeps it inline instead of splitting it into extra paragraphs.
On Windows and Linux, text copied from a chat pastes into other apps with non-English characters and curly quotes intact.
Opening Grok Bot to a restored chat no longer flashes a Couldn't refresh bar above the message box.
Switching accounts or signing back in shows the app's loading frame instead of a blank white window.
Switching accounts while a queued message is canceled or refused no longer puts its text and attachments in the other account's message box.
Accounts without Grok Bot access finish setup and see just the access notice, without setup or load errors.
When the Bot you had open is deleted on another device, Grok Bot opens another of your Bots instead of an empty pane.
Deleting several Bots at once still deletes the rest when one fails, and the alert names only the Bot that failed.
Sidebar section changes that can't be saved stay put with Can't reach your computer and Retry, then save once your computer is reachable.
In the collapsed sidebar, a Bot list that can't load shows a warning icon with retry instead of text squeezed letter by letter.
The full-screen computer view no longer shows a cut-off snippet of a subagent's instructions or a Couldn't load subagents line.
When a Bot's routines fail to load, Couldn't load routines appears inside the Routines section of its details pane.
With the details pane open and no Bot selected, a failed primary Bot load shows Couldn't load and Try again.
When a Bot's skills can't be loaded, the @ menu no longer shows a Couldn't load skills row.
The sidebar's number shortcut badges no longer stay on screen after you change zoom with Cmd or Ctrl.
In the collapsed sidebar, the More unreads button is a circle with its arrow centered.
When you drag Bots or sections in the sidebar, screen readers announce their names and where they land.
Screen readers announce a Bot's reply even when it arrives after the announcement that the Bot stopped.
When you Tab to a link and its preview card opens, keyboard focus moves into the card.
When a Bot changes a routine while the app is briefly disconnected, the Routines list updates once it reconnects, without a reload.
After onboarding creates your primary Bot, the Introducing your primary Bot chooser no longer asks you to pick one again.
After you answer a request to use your computer, the Bot's sidebar row shows Allowed, Denied, or Expired instead of Permission required.
When you pause and keep talking in a voice chat, the transcript extends your line instead of repeating it, and leaves out noise tags.
Connector calls no longer time out after one minute: they wait up to two minutes for a reply, and longer while the connector reports progress.
Bots see the full parameters of tools on connectors from Grok, so they call those tools correctly instead of guessing.
Bots hit X's rate limit less often when searching X or reading posts, and a rate-limited call no longer counts toward your X read limit.
Bots work with a specific Stripe customer, invoice, subscription, or payment on the first try instead of hitting a missing parameter error.
Stop also ends a Bot's background subagents, so their results no longer wake the Bot afterward, and their pending approval cards expire.
When you hand the Bot's computer back with I'm done or Skip, the Bot posts its answer in the chat instead of sometimes staying silent.
Scripts a Bot runs in its browser no longer fail over extra or out-of-range settings, so browser tasks finish more often.
Secure Form fills fields on more websites, including inside embedded frames from other sites, instead of leaving them empty.
When a routine needs to sign in to a site, it asks you in chat at that step instead of quietly stopping.
Bots ask for logins and other multi-field details on one Secure Form instead of a secret request card that holds a single value.
Screenshot, computer, and browser actions keep working when you haven't connected 1Password, instead of failing on a saved-login check.
Messaging from another time zone updates the zone the Bot uses for schedules and reminders right away, unless you chose one under Timezone in Settings.
Bots with any shape the avatar editor offers, such as sparkle or star, can be shared as templates without the Bot changing its look.
Emails that arrive in a Bot's own inbox keep each link's web address, so the Bot can open verification and sign-in links.
Email sent to a Bot's own address arrives even when its subject, sender address, or thread references are very long.
After you choose Disable drafts for a Bot, it sends email from its own address right away, without a draft card.
After a Bot claims an email address, opening Email or Plugins shows it as Connected instead of still offering Connect.
When you allow a Team Bot to use one of your plugins, its tools work right away instead of the Bot failing to find them. (Teams)
Plugins on a Team Bot use the settings your team admin entered, such as a Datadog site, when the Bot has none of its own. (Teams)
A Team Bot still named New team bot with no description shows Draft, not Published to your team, until you rename it or add a description. (Teams)
Grok Bot works under your selected team even when another team you're on uses Privacy Mode (Legacy), as long as the selected team doesn't.
Account merges that move many Bots finish in one go instead of failing and showing Your account merge is taking longer than usual.
When a downloaded update is withdrawn, Restart to Update goes away and Grok Bot keeps your current version, even when you quit on a Mac.
An update download that keeps restarting from the beginning waits between tries and then stops with an error instead of retrying nonstop.
When the update server sends a broken response, Settings says The update server returned an invalid response instead of blaming your connection.
Restart to Update shows Restarting… and waits up to two minutes for commands a Bot is running on your computer to finish.
When an update replaces Grok Bot's files while it runs, reloading or crash recovery relaunches the app instead of showing a blank window.
On Linux deb and rpm installs, Update required links the latest package, leading with it when the package repository doesn't have the update yet.
On Windows and Linux, opening Grok Bot while it's still quitting reopens it after the quit instead of leaving nothing open.
GitHub tools stay available after a connection block and work once you reconnect, without starting a new chat.
When Gmail refuses to open a full thread, the Bot still answers from the thread's first message.
A connector that still needs Allow keeps its name, so the Bot asks you to allow it instead of saying it can't find it.
A Bot keeps its connector tools while its computer is asleep, starting up, or not created yet, instead of losing them for that turn.