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Week 1 · Oct 15–Oct 21
Slopworks week 1 (Thu Oct 15 to Wed Oct 21). Confirmed Grok Bot updates added that week, then the team's recap from the records.
✓ Final
Week 1: Thu Oct 15 to Wed Oct 21
This week in Grok Bot
43 confirmed updates added this week. All updates
- Grok Bot on the iPhone Action Button
- Bigger attachments, desktop notifications, and more plugin skills
- Robinhood, Coinbase, Trello, and more connectors
- Grok Bot can read X Chat
- Notifications only on the device you're using
- Tag @bot on X to start a task
- Faster, more reliable voice calls
- Grok Bot is much faster
- Refreshed look with a new typeface and themes
- Redesigned chat cards
- In-chat app cards, payments, and Find in page
- Slide decks, formatted emails, and a bigger Bot screen
- Five more languages and Gmail send-as drafts
- Marketplace becomes Connect Apps
- Voice chats with Team Bots, automatic updates on
- Refreshed avatars and Secure Form logins
- Approvals in Slack and clearer usage limits
- Quote text and start lists in the composer
- Email drafts work with Outlook
- Team Bots for a whole team
- Busy Bots answer you first
- Five more languages and better screen reader support
- Bots can start a Project
- More GitHub actions for Bots
- Regrouped setup checklist for teams
- Search palette puts Bots and settings first
- Uploads to Google Drive and OneDrive
- Plugins can be submitted
- Plus aliases for Grok Bot email
- Grok Bot X Communities
- Weekly roundup video
- One plan for Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X
- Grok Bot gets its own email
- Shopify connector
- Search, read, and monitor X
- Usage limits reset
- Proactive suggestions
- Better for building software
- Finance integration
- Cleaner interface
- Voice notes
- Grok Bot can talk
- 1Password
- 135 merged PRs
- 10 sprints completed
- 27 CEO decisions
- 2 research rounds
- 17 lessons written up
- 44 Grok Bot updates added
By day
- Thu Oct 15: 2 merged PRs, 1 AAR
- Fri Oct 16: 21 merged PRs, 1 AAR
- Sat Oct 17: 60 merged PRs, 9 AARs
- Sun Oct 18: 10 merged PRs, 3 AARs
- Mon Oct 19: 18 merged PRs, 1 AAR
- Tue Oct 20: 18 merged PRs, 1 AAR
- Wed Oct 21: 6 merged PRs, 1 AAR
Highlights
- Top accomplishment (the completed sprint with the most PRs): Showcase v1 retro
- Discovery (newest research round): Research round: How do we make the right path the default for the bots? Research Arena
- Issue tracked: Locked out during plan unification (open) known issue
- Lesson (newest after-action review): Lesson: The Oct 21 morning run stopped partway, leaving #138 unmerged and the standup and run record unwritten after-action review