Grok Bot 0.77.0: Smarter Approvals, Vault Payments, and 1Password

James Turner

Brought to you by Jellypod AI. Last episode we covered Grok Bot 0.75.5, where the Vault first showed up, email forwarding arrived, and approvals got a little quieter. This episode is the sequel. Version 0.75.8 landed October 24, and version 0.77.0 followed on October 26, bundling 0.76.0 along the way. The theme across both is simple: fewer interruptions, more control over the ones that remain, and a Vault that can finally handle payments.

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Start with 0.75.8, which also includes 0.75.6 and 0.75.7. The headline is the rule card. In the app, a Bot can now offer to add, change, or remove one of your Auto review rules, right there in chat, on a card you confirm. So instead of digging through settings, you can tell the Bot you're tired of being asked about something, it proposes the rule, and you tap confirm. That requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later.

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Then there's the second look. Auto review now checks again before it shows you an approval card, so fewer safe actions need one. It also no longer counts a Bot saving or editing one of its own routines as risky by itself. And in Slack, approval cards now describe the action, the same way they do in the app. The official note is plain about the goal: fewer safe actions needing a card. In the X post announcing the release, the line that got the most reaction was agents that ask before acting beat agents that apologize after. That's the balance this release is chasing.

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Now the connector fixes, because these remove real friction. When a connector such as X adds tools or fields, Bots can use them without you reconnecting it. If a connector's sign in has expired, the app now shows Authenticate instead of Connected, which finally matches what the Bot tells you. That one requires Grok Bot 0.71.2 or later. Images a connector returns as files now reach the Bot as images, and other binary files are no longer read as garbled text. And X Money connects in one tap for more X accounts, and if it can't connect yours, the Bot says so instead of offering a sign in.

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A few smaller ones are worth knowing. When a Bot posts to Slack for you, say from a routine, your phone isn't notified and the unread badge doesn't go up. When a Bot installs a plugin while working, it can use the plugin's skills right away. And for most accounts, with Route traffic through this computer on, the connection comes back as soon as the Bot's computer wakes. On Teams, people not on a Team Bot's share list, teammates included, no longer have access until an owner shares it with them.

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Now 0.77.0, and this is where the permissions story gets organized. Settings now has a Permissions section that lists your Auto review rules under two headings: Always Ask and Allow without Asking, each with its own Add Rule button. That requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later. Rule cards in chat now show each rule as a sentence, and name any older Allow rule that was removed to make room. So you can actually read what you've agreed to.

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The same release also trims the noise. Auto review lets through more private actions you can undo, without an approval card, though it keeps an approval when only your open tabs change. Background work you start in your own words no longer asks for approval to start. And approval cards now stay open for 30 minutes instead of 10, in the app and in Slack. If you step away from a long task, the card is still waiting when you're back. A practical tip: put the actions you never want automated under Always Ask, and let the reversible, boring ones live under Allow without Asking.

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Now back to the Vault from 0.75.5. In 0.77.0 it grows up. There's a new Payments tab where you pick the payment method Bots use first, and you still approve every purchase. That last part matters. The Bot gets a default, not a blank check.

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The Vault also gets a Hints field on each entry, which tells Bots when to use it. So your work card and your personal card can each say what they're for. Saved addresses, phones, and emails now appear together as Contact info, and one contact can hold several emails and phone numbers. Address fields in forms and the Vault suggest streets as you type, and a ZIP code fills in the city and state. Bots will also try your saved Vault logins and cards before a password manager or another way to pay, and they can update a saved entry's name, hint, and card details for you.

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The bigger security move is 1Password. It connects without a shared vault. Instead, you approve each login in 1Password, and 1Password fills it in the Bot's browser without the Bot seeing it. That's per the official changelog, and it requires Grok Bot 0.68.0 or later. The practical read: if you already trust a password manager, you can lend the Bot one login at a time, rather than handing over a whole stash. Fills also recover from more problems, like a sleeping extension or an expired approval, and the Bot continues as soon as you approve. On Windows and Linux, the Bot notices an installed 1Password app and can offer to connect it.

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There's one more thing on secrets, and it comes from the Cursor forum. A user asked about secrets saved through the secure card getting overwritten when the desktop app reconnected. A Cursor team member replied that this has been addressed, the change was made on the Grok Bot computer itself, not the desktop app, and on 0.75.8 a reconnect no longer clears secrets saved with the secure card. But they also said they're still tracking a separate case where saved secrets can go missing after the computer restarts or updates. Their advice: keep your originals in a password manager so you can re save them through the card.

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Next, memory. Settings now has Import Memory to Grok Bot, which brings your preferences and context from another AI assistant into your primary Bot. It requires Grok Bot 0.75.2 or later. If you've spent months teaching another assistant how you work, this is how you stop starting over. My suggestion is to import, then ask your Bot what it now knows about you, and trim anything stale.

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A few quality of life items round it out. Bots can now ask several questions on one card that steps through them, with a Your own answer option when none of the choices fit. Tables in chat have a copy button for Slack or markdown, and wide tables open full screen with zoom. Dictation now writes words into the message box while you're still speaking. And when Gmail signs you out, say after Google revokes access, your primary Bot tells you in chat and offers to reconnect.

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Two new templates are worth trying: Order Concierge and Deal Watcher. Order Concierge tracks your orders, refunds, and returns. Deal Watcher watches prices and coupons. The changelog says they never buy without your OK. Pair Deal Watcher with the new Payments tab and a Hints entry, and you've got a shopping assistant that finds the deal but still waits for you to approve the purchase.

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For teams, in Slack, Team Bots can now edit messages they posted and remove reactions they added. Teammates in a DM with a Team Bot can have it message other Team Bots they can use. Team admins can limit Bot sharing to admins, and choose whether members can publish Bot templates publicly, only to the team, or not at all. Enterprise audit logs now record changes to a team's trusted CA certificates.

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So here's the quick plan. Update to 0.77.0. Open Settings, review Permissions, and sort your rules. Check the Vault's Payments tab and add Hints. Try 1Password if you use it. And import your memory. That's your Grok Bot release notes for this week. Brought to you by Jellypod AI.