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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

September 22, 2026 at 2:18 AM UTC

Dogfood pre-release 0.58.0-pre.21.patch.0 for Grok Bot desktop (sand-dogfood) across macOS and Windows.

Changelog

  • [new] Spend approval flow with passkey support for Grok Bot purchases and related spend checks
  • [new] Financial accounts and connections: list, manage, and remove linked financial connections, plus the Finance marketplace plugin
  • [new] Publish a Grok Bot agent from the desktop app
  • [new] Unread divider for local agents
  • [new] Memory facts surfaced in user info
  • [new] Skill catalog caching for the IDE
  • [new] Portal files engine SSR body prefetch
  • [changed] Cloud catalog cache enabled by default
  • [changed] Agent titles enabled by default
  • [removed] Built-in className, mono, and sans plugins

Availability

Shipped on sand-dogfood for:

  • macOS (darwin-arm64, darwin-x64)
  • Windows user installs (win32-x64-user, win32-arm64-user)

All of the above moved from 0.58.0-pre.19.patch.0 to 0.58.0-pre.21.patch.0. This is the dogfood (pre-release) channel only; stable sand is not covered by this bump.

Upgrade notes

The app self-updates on the dogfood channel. No manual download is required for eligible installs.

Older release← Sep 22, 00:19 UTCNewer release→ Sep 22, 05:18 UTC
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