Grok Bot Workflow Updates, Agent Modes, and Unannounced Version 0.79.2

James Turner

The official Grok Bot changelog still tops out at 0.78.1, dated October 27th, 2026, and that entry also includes 0.78.0. But desktop users are already reporting version 0.79.2. So this is a practical week. What shipped, what's unannounced, and what to do about it. Brought to you by Jellypod AI.

James Turner

We covered 0.78.1 in earlier episodes, the enterprise controls, the shopping carousels, the browser under the hood updates. So I'm not rehashing the cards. I want the workflow side of that cycle, because a few lines in there change how you'd actually build things.

James Turner

First, custom cloud agent modes. The official note says Bots can start cloud agents in a custom mode you name, and keep replying to them in it. That's the whole line. My read, and this is interpretation, is that you can name a mode for a job, like a research mode, and keep steering that agent inside it instead of starting over every time. The source doesn't spell out more than that, so test it yourself.

James Turner

Second, the browser. The Bot's browser now types one character at a time and moves the mouse on every website it fills in. It reads like a move toward behaving more like a person on a page. I won't claim it beats any particular bot check, because the notes don't say that. Also, on sign in pages for Cloudflare, Coinbase, Gusto, YouTube, Railway, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and TikTok for Business, the Bot offers that connector. Take the connector when it offers one. It's the cleaner path than driving a login page.

James Turner

Third, a few fixes that matter if you run real work. Routines made in a new Bot's first chat now run in your time zone instead of UTC. If your morning routine ever fired at a weird hour, that's probably why. Two saves to the same memory at once no longer overwrite each other. Spend totals use the right currency, so other currencies aren't counted as US dollars. And Bots using the built in code review tools act with your access and never approve your own pull request. That last one is a good guardrail to know about.

James Turner

On plans, where Grok Bot offered a free trial, it now offers Get Grok Bot with a unified plan and See Unified Plans. If you're sending teammates to try it, expect that screen. And for the subscription crowd, the new templates are practical. Try it, don't pay for it starts a free trial and cancels it, or reminds you, before it bills. Find unused subscriptions cancels plans you pick. And Bots confirm with you before changing anything.

James Turner

One model side note. The research I was handed says Grok 4.7 now powers Grok Bot, and that on November 2nd two image models, grok-imagine-image-quality and grok-imagine-image-pro, were retired and routed to grok-imagine-image-2.0-low. I couldn't confirm that in the changelog sources here, so treat it as reported, not official. What the official notes do say is that image creation now stops with a clear error when a reference image can't be read, instead of ignoring it.

James Turner

Now the messy part. There's no official entry for 0.79.2, so what we know is community reports. One bug report on the Cursor forum, posted November 6th, describes Windows 11 on 0.79.2 with Execution on this computer set to Always allow. The poster says that around 3 PM Central on November 5th, bots stopped doing local file and command operations on a shop PC. The same commands had worked that morning with exit code zero.

James Turner

Listing files still works. But asking the bot to query or write to a local SQL database, or drive another app's window with scripted input, gets a refusal. The poster also says the Privacy Mode toggle is missing from this build under Data Controls, and that a support ticket is open. That's one user's account, not a confirmed product change. Whether an update changed permissions is exactly what they're asking.

James Turner

There's a pattern, though. The same forum lists earlier threads about Grok Bot 0.71.2 and local file access on Windows 11, so this is not the first report of this type. My advice. If you rely on local execution for anything important, hold off on updating, keep a manual fallback, and test after every update before you leave for a trip. Report details to support with your exact version.

James Turner

That's the week. Take the connector prompts, try a named cloud agent mode, check your routine time zones, and be careful with 0.79.2 on Windows. Brought to you by Jellypod AI. See you next episode.