Grok Bot Can Now Handle Your X DMs and Become Your Android Assistant

Image: Matt Palmer/X

Grok Bot can now read and reply to your X Chat DMs, take on requests when you tag @bot in an X thread and stand in as the default assistant on Android phones, along with a long list of smaller upgrades that rolled out over the past week.

That’s according to Matt Palmer, who works on Cursor and Grok Bot at SpaceXSI, in a five-minute “What’s new in Grok Bot” video he posted on X on Tuesday morning. Palmer walked through 12 changes, from redesigned chat cards and a faster Bot computer to collapsed notifications and team invites, and closed the post by writing, “This team ships!”

What’s new in Grok Bot

00:00 New chat cards
00:31 Speed
00:53 Draft edits
01:08 Email aliases
01:33 X DMs
01:55 Tag @bot
02:31 Connectors
02:48 Voice calls
03:27 Notifications
03:56 Invites and Android Assistant
04:19 Access lists, unread, routines, sign-in

This team ships!

matt palmer (@mattyp) October 20, 2026

The X Chat feature is the one Palmer spent the most time on. “Bot can now read your X chat DMs and respond,” he said in the video, adding that it had been “asked for like a million times.” He also said there are limits in place and that “you can’t spam people.” Elon Musk had already been pointing people toward it, writing on October 16 that you should ask Grok Bot to connect to your X DMs. “Best way to use it,” he added. Palmer didn’t say whether a Bot needs your approval before each reply goes out.

Tagging @bot works anywhere on X. Palmer said you can drop @bot into a thread and it will “do whatever you ask it to,” because the Bot knows which X username is linked to your account, though you have to install and configure the X plugin first. His examples included having it save posts for you or asking it to help you understand something you just came across. The @bot account has been answering tagged requests all morning by replying that it’s sending them over to that person’s Grok Bot, while people without an account get a sign-up link.

On Android, Grok Bot can now be set as the phone’s default digital assistant. The video shows Grok Bot listed next to Google in Android’s “Default digital assistant app” settings, along with the standard system warning that the assistant will be able to read information about the apps you’re using, including what’s on your screen. That fills the gap left after Grok Bot got one-press access through the iPhone’s Action Button on Monday, when SpaceXSI hadn’t said whether anything similar was coming to Android.

Voice calls got an upgrade as well. Palmer said that until now, a Bot didn’t always remember the whole conversation after you hung up, but now it keeps the previous call and its full transcript if you call back. That memory only lasts 30 minutes, which he described as “sort of short-lived.” The official @bot account had said in an October 16 thread that voice calls are “faster, more reliable, and better at remembering past conversations,” and that computer tasks now “finish 3x sooner on average,” with replies to everything else arriving “in less than half the time.”

The rest of the list is mostly about everyday polish. When a Bot revises a message it drafted for Slack or Gmail, the edits are now highlighted so you can see what changed, and notifications are collapsed so you only get one on the device you’re actively using instead of on your phone, watch and laptop at once. Team and enterprise users can invite teammates and set access lists for team Bots, the mobile app has a pill that jumps to unread messages, and routine scheduling and Slack sign-in links have been improved. New connectors include Robinhood, Coinbase, Trello, PostHog, beehiiv and eToro, according to the @bot account, which added that teams can now submit their own connectors to the Grok Bot marketplace.

The DM feature is a big change from where Grok Bot stood two weeks ago. When it picked up built-in X search, reading and monitoring on October 7, replies under the announcement said it did not send DMs or cold-message people on X, and that anything it drafted in your voice would be left for you to review and send. Reading and answering DMs moves the Bot from watching X on your behalf to talking for you there.

The email change in Palmer’s list builds on the inboxes SpaceXSI started handing out on October 9. As we reported when a SpaceXSI developer first showed off plus aliases for Grok Bot email on October 14, the tags let one Bot address split into addresses like +receipts or +newsletters, each with its own routines. Palmer said that effectively gives a Bot “unlimited email addresses,” and that you set one up by asking your Bot in chat.

Put together, the updates make Grok Bot easier to reach from wherever you are. Bots can already be reached through Grok in Tesla vehicles, iPhone owners have the Action Button, and Android owners can now hold down their assistant shortcut, so the longer voice-call memory matters more than it might seem, since a quick call from the car and a follow-up from your phone a few minutes later can now pick up where you left off.

Would you let Grok Bot answer your X DMs for you?