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Grok Bot Desktop Stable

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Grok Bot Desktop Stable

September 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM UTC

Stable desktop release: 0.47.0 → 0.51.0 on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Changelog

Grok Bot desktop stable 0.51.0

What's new

0.51.0 (sand / stable)

  • [new] Group chats for Grok Bot sessions, with roster and room membership updates
  • [new] Projects support in the app surface, including a simplified right pane and in-progress task views
  • [new] Voice updates: memos, call feedback card, async voice updates, stay-silent behavior, and server harness wiring
  • [new] Cloud agent improvements: repair for stalled panes (enabled), cloud agent artifacts, and bot-to-bot cloud agent UI
  • [new] Fleet operations and team bot onboarding flows
  • [new] Browser use via Playwright
  • [new] Local Ollama support and an offline tray experience
  • [new] PR tray stack groups and Linear ticket preview in the tray/glass UI
  • [new] Agent skills management (list, add, update, remove) and user skills snapshot publishing
  • [new] Secrets management (list, put, delete) and agent automations (list, enable/disable, delete)
  • [new] Subscription usage checks and MCP admin tool discovery
  • [new] Option to add a local agent to a cloud project; Clonekit available in-app
  • [new] Network debugger for Grok Bot
  • [new] Mobile session upgrade path and web bot auth sign-in iframe support
  • [new] Dashboard / onboarding checklist hooks for Grok Bot, including download CTA surfaces
  • [new] Host-owned agent session storage with migrate-on-open
  • [new] Local egress admin control and roster waking hold behavior
  • [changed] Top bar CTA visibility and chat switch post-paint commit behavior
  • [changed] Deprecated context menu items and slash commands can be hidden
  • [changed] Portal projects sidebar can be hidden; child-question answered-in-child handling for cloud glass UI
  • [changed] Voice prompt/persona markers refined for live call and first-person agent speech
  • [removed] Marketplace bots v2 UI and default bots tab marketplace flag
  • [removed] PDF file tab preview and projects sidebar subagents hide flag
  • [removed] Cloud onboarding auto env setup and speculative follow-up wake
  • [removed] Voice speech tags
  • [removed] Built-in subagent types: Deep Search, Fix Lints, Spec, and Task

Availability

  • sand (stable): 0.51.0 on darwin-arm64 and darwin-x64
  • No other qualities or platforms are listed in this bump; Windows/Linux and dogfood tracks are unchanged here

Upgrade notes

The app self-updates. Restart Grok Bot if the update does not apply automatically.

Older release← Sep 14, 18:16 UTCNewer release→ Sep 15, 10:16 UTC
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