Grok Bot for Mac Can Now Use Apple's Messages, Mail, Notes and Four Other Apps

"Grok Bot on Mac can now use Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Location, and Contacts," the app's official account said on X on November 12.

The update gives an autonomous agent access to some of the most personal data on a computer. According to the setup screens described by iPhone in Canada, Grok Bot can read and send messages in Messages. In Mail, it can search messages and prepare drafts but does not send them automatically. It can also read and write notes, set and check reminders, find and add contacts and look up nearby places. The description for Calendar repeats the Location text, so it is unclear what the agent can do there. Each app has its own Allow button, so users can choose which ones to connect.

The announcement did not give a minimum macOS version or any change in pricing.

Grok Bot launched on iPhone and Mac in August as an agent that carries out tasks across apps and websites. It added iPad support in early September. According to 9to5Mac, an October update gave the agent its own email address for its work and brought in Anthropic's Claude as the model behind the scenes.

Last month the app gained integrations with phone apps on iPhone and Android, but those did not include iMessage. The new Mac features do not lift that limit on the iPhone.

Rival assistants are adding similar features. OpenAI's ChatGPT added a Messages integration on the Mac earlier this year, and Dot, another agent app, recently added support for Apple Mail and Calendar.