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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

August 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM UTC

Stable 0.27.0 and dogfood 0.28.0-pre.2 — agents, templates, voice, sharing, and marketplace plugins.

Changelog

Stable (sand) — 0.24.0 → 0.27.0

  • [new] Grok Bot agents: create, update, list, and interrupt runs; send agent and user messages; watch transcripts
  • [new] Agent templates: create and manage templates, activate versions, import details, public/team visibility, and template sharing (botTemplateJsonShareV1)
  • [new] First-party SWE template support
  • [new] Share agents, canvases, and conversations (including public share links and visibility controls)
  • [new] Voice and realtime audio: speech-to-text streaming, text-to-speech, transcription, and voice-call credentials; live phone-call assistant mode
  • [new] Voice-oriented models: grok-voice-latest, grok-voice-think-fast-2.0, and grok-transcribe
  • [new] Additional models: Claude 4.5 Sonnet/Haiku, Claude 4.5 Opus high-thinking, Claude 4.6 Opus high-fast, and Claude Opus 4.8
  • [new] Plugin marketplace and third-party plugins (Slack, GitHub, Notion, Jira, Figma, Linear-adjacent workflows, Stripe, and many more SaaS connectors)
  • [new] Team and marketplace MCP controls: allowlists, admin-only servers/tools, multi-account MCP, settings overhaul, and cloud-agent plugin support
  • [new] Desktop commands: command palette, find-in-chat, agent switching, sidebar/info toggles, Skills and Tools entry points, and send/focus shortcuts
  • [new] Subagent types: deep search, fix lints, spec, and task
  • [new] Local tool permission prompts and auto-review approval flows
  • [new] User-computer handoff and widget respond/dismiss flows
  • [new] UI feedback sounds for common interactions
  • [changed] Broader Grok Bot client surfaces and harness modes (desktop/mobile, box/temporal delivery paths)

Dogfood (sand-dogfood) — 0.28.0-pre.0 → 0.28.0-pre.2

  • [changed] Pre-release bump to 0.28.0-pre.2.patch.0 on all desktop dogfood builds
  • [new] Inherits the agent, template, voice, share, model, and marketplace work landing in stable 0.27.0

Availability

  • Stable 0.27.0 is live for darwin-arm64, darwin-x64, win32-x64-user, and win32-arm64-user
  • Dogfood 0.28.0-pre.2.patch.0 is live on the same platforms (pre-release channel)
  • No platform lag called out in this release set

Upgrade notes

The app self-updates. Stable users should land on 0.27.0; dogfood users on 0.28.0-pre.2. No manual install steps required for a normal upgrade.

Older release← Aug 26, 00:18 UTCNewer release→ Aug 26, 03:03 UTC
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