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The latest fixes, features, and improvements shipping to Grok Build.

Latest v0.2.52·Jun 15, 2026

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v0.2.52

Grok Build 0.2.52

  • Tool auto-approval state is now tracked end-to-end in server-side agent sessions
  • ER diagrams now render as entity boxes with attributes and relationships in the TUI
  • New "Respect manual folds" setting keeps hand-expanded blocks stable while content streams in
  • Ctrl+X now stops running turns or closes sessions from inside the agent detail view
  • Grok can now export usage metrics and events to your own OpenTelemetry collector when enabled
  • WezTerm users now receive guidance when Shift+Enter fails because kitty keyboard protocol is disabled
  • Long-running sessions now tell the model when the local calendar date changes past midnight
  • Agent Dashboard now works without leader mode and shows local idle sessions from disk
  • Fixed oversized session replay logs that prevented large sessions from loading
  • MCP server connections no longer flood reconnects on repeated stream errors
  • Mermaid PNG export now handles quoted cardinalities in class diagrams and readable ER rows on dark theme
  • Skill catalog no longer shows duplicate "Use when:" labels and check-work skill now prompts the model to read its instructions
  • Compaction now rejects overly-short summaries that would discard real conversation state
  • Background tasks no longer emit spurious failure messages when a session is resumed
  • Fixed Windows path handling so external tools and model prompts receive clean paths without \?\ prefixes
  • Images and media no longer remain visible when switching from an agent view to the dashboard
  • Clipboard paste (Ctrl+V) now works for images on pure Wayland sessions
  • Modals such as /sessions no longer crash on narrow terminals
  • ptyctl resize now correctly notifies the child process
  • Concurrent updates to the same version no longer fail with permission or EEXIST errors
  • Mermaid diagrams containing CJK or other non-Latin text now render correctly instead of tofu boxes
  • grok dashboard now reliably opens the dashboard instead of silently falling through to a normal session
  • Sessions no longer remain blocked forever after a transient model catalog outage during reconnect
  • Cancel no longer leaves the interface stuck on "Cancelling…" after lost responses during reconnects
  • Forked sessions now retain the parent’s full pre-compaction transcripts instead of only the compacted summary
  • web_fetch errors on GitHub hosts now recommend using the gh CLI when internal access is blocked
  • MCP server connections no longer hang when stdio servers emit undecodable lines
  • Ctrl+C cancels now complete in under 50 ms instead of blocking for seconds
  • Repeated varied edit failures on one file no longer trigger doom-loop warnings or terminations
  • Compaction now reuses cached prompt prefix instead of full prefill
  • Compaction summaries now use the concise trained prompt for non-cursor agents
v0.2.51

Grok Build 0.2.51

  • grok mcp add now accepts positional arguments (e.g. grok mcp add filesystem -- npx ...), supports --scope project, and adds -e/-H flags for env/headers
  • Mermaid flowcharts now render subgraph blocks as titled frames with correct internal and cross-boundary edges
  • Class diagrams in Mermaid now render as proper UML boxes with attributes, methods and inheritance arrows instead of raw source
  • Permission prompts now accept a double-click on an option to submit it, matching the existing Enter and number-key shortcuts
  • New /code-review slash command now ships with the CLI and is always available
  • Plan mode exit reminders no longer appear after the model has already started implementing the plan
  • Expanded thinking blocks in scrollback now remain expanded when the agent finishes them
  • grok update no longer downloads the same binary twice when multiple updaters or leader checks run concurrently
  • Background task IDs after /compact are now shown verbatim so the model can reference them correctly in later tool calls
  • Typing / while scrollback is focused now focuses the prompt and opens the slash-command dropdown
  • Dashboard empty state is now a single hint line; dispatch and peek placeholders appear only when unfocused
  • Fixed memory leaks that could cause the CLI to use tens of gigabytes during long sessions with many tool calls
  • Login on SSH or headless machines now tells you when the browser cannot be opened automatically and shows the URL to visit manually
  • Fixed git clone failures on Windows when the CLI tries to clone marketplace plugins into ~/.grok
  • Large code blocks inside lists no longer cause multi-second UI stalls while streaming responses
v0.2.50

Grok Build 0.2.50

  • Mermaid flowcharts now render edge crossings clearly instead of fusing unrelated connections
  • Sequence diagrams with activate, autonumber, par, and more now render instead of showing parse errors
  • MCP servers menu and slash commands now work when starting grok outside a project directory
  • Ctrl+W in the prompt now deletes whole words like bash instead of stopping at punctuation
  • Login no longer quits when an authentication code contains the letter q
v0.2.49

Grok Build 0.2.49

  • Marketplace plugin listings now show skills, MCP servers, and commands when the catalog is published
  • Mermaid flowcharts now render with fewer avoidable edge crossings
  • stateDiagram mermaid blocks now render as Unicode diagrams instead of source fallback
  • Skill reloads no longer corrupt active tool calls or produce duplicate results in the conversation
  • grok --resume now correctly finds the real session instead of failing on empty image-only folders
  • Pasted images and relative paths now use the correct directory when resuming a session created elsewhere
  • Mermaid flowcharts now correctly render node groups, arrow endings, self-loops and line styles
  • Fixed "unknown session id" errors that occurred after the leader process crashed or was killed
  • Pasted images now survive interjections and queue edits instead of being dropped
  • Managed MCP connectors (Slack, Linear, etc.) now appear correctly when using leader mode
v0.2.47

Grok Build 0.2.47

  • stateDiagram Mermaid blocks now render as diagrams instead of source fallback
  • Pasted images now survive interjections and queue edits instead of being dropped
  • Managed MCP connectors (Slack, Linear, etc.) now appear correctly when using leader mode
v0.2.46

Grok Build 0.2.46

  • Mermaid flowcharts now render with fewer avoidable edge crossings
  • Fixed grok --resume failing on empty image-only session folders left by cross-directory pastes
  • Fixed pasted images and relative paths using the wrong directory after cross-cwd resume
  • Fixed Mermaid flowcharts that silently rendered wrong diagrams for & groups, circle/cross endings and self-loops
  • Fixed zsh tab-completion for subcommands after the optional prompt argument was added
  • Parallel tool calls on the same path now execute concurrently
v0.2.45

Grok Build 0.2.45

  • Mermaid diagrams now render to images when you click Open in a code block (on by default)
  • Fixed rare conversation corruption when skills changed while a tool call was still running
  • Fixed grok --resume failing on empty image-only session folders left by cross-directory pastes
  • Fixed pasted images and relative paths using the wrong directory after resuming a session from another folder
  • Welcome screen logo no longer renders as invalid characters on legacy Windows command prompts and PowerShell
  • Fixed "unknown session id" errors that occurred after the leader process crashed or was killed
v0.2.44

Grok Build 0.2.44

  • K/J keys snap the viewport to the top of previous or next assistant responses
  • J/K vim mode navigates between assistant responses in scrollback
  • sequenceDiagram mermaid blocks render as Unicode lifeline diagrams instead of source fallback
  • Interjecting while editing a queued prompt no longer strands the composer or blocks the queue
  • Mid-turn interjections now appear as separate user messages instead of being appended to tool results
  • Inference requests recover faster from silent engine stalls instead of waiting the full idle timeout
v0.2.43

Grok Build 0.2.43

  • ask_user_question tool can now be enabled in allowlists without requiring plan-mode tools
  • Shift+Tab mode cycling works again in the agent view
  • Ctrl+C now cancels a blocking grok update cleanly instead of leaving an orphaned download
v0.2.42

Grok Build 0.2.42

  • MCP servers provided at session start now persist across config hot-reloads
v0.2.41

Grok Build 0.2.41

  • Compaction completion message now shows before to after token reduction instead of only the final count
  • Fixed token count after compaction so the displayed number no longer jumps back up on the next model response
  • Fixed plugin skill loading when a manifest lists skill directories directly instead of a parent skills/ folder
  • Fixed memory context injection on resume so the prompt prefix stays byte-stable and KV cache is preserved
v0.2.40

Grok Build 0.2.40

  • grok --debug now produces per-session log files under ~/.grok/debug/ even with a leader process
  • Doom-loop warnings now correctly describe cycles and distinct edit failures instead of claiming identical arguments
  • Model list changes from config or cache now appear in already-connected TUI and IDE clients without restart
v0.2.39

Grok Build 0.2.39

  • run_terminal_cmd can stream live stdout/stderr chunks when the workspace flag is enabled
  • /session-info now displays the current turn index
  • Background & operator is now allowed by default in terminal commands
  • Resumed subagents no longer loop forever during auto-compaction on large context windows
  • Background task descriptions and & rejection messages now correctly name the real parameters
  • Doom-loop detection no longer falsely triggers on distinct failing tool calls
v0.2.38

Grok Build 0.2.38

  • Watching status line for background monitors
  • Default model selection fix
v0.2.37

Grok Build 0.2.37

  • MCP tool result queries now list only command-line tools actually present on your system
  • grok update now restarts any older running leader so all clients get the new binary
  • Long-running bash commands that hit the timeout are now moved to the background by default instead of killed
  • Subagents now correctly receive web_search and x_search tools from the parent session
v0.2.36

Grok Build 0.2.36

  • Large MCP tool results are now saved with the correct extension and the model receives better hints for querying them
  • Fixed false-positive doom-loop terminations when many parallel tool calls fail together in one batch
  • Fixed a crash that could occur during auto-compaction when resuming a session containing reasoning content
v0.2.34

Grok Build 0.2.34

  • grok login now defaults to device code flow, which works reliably in SSH, WSL, VPN, and browser-restricted environments
  • Fixed a hang during auth refresh
v0.2.33

Grok Build 0.2.33

  • Fixed duplicate turn output when attaching a second client to an active leader session
  • Fixed "Send now" on queued prompts
v0.2.32

Grok Build 0.2.32

  • Slash commands from project plugins now appear correctly in every open conversation after a plugin change
  • Prompts submitted rapidly now stay in correct submission order in the queue
  • Grep searches on large repositories are now substantially faster and no longer hit the 60-second timeout
v0.2.31

Grok Build 0.2.31

  • Marketplace skills without proper descriptions are now hidden from listings instead of flooding the model with tables
  • Prompts submitted rapidly now stay in correct submission order in the queue
  • Grep searches on large repositories are now substantially faster and no longer hit the 60-second timeout
v0.2.30

Grok Build 0.2.30

  • A new plugin install suggestion appears above the prompt when you type a known marketplace plugin name or domain
  • Trace uploads and remote session restores now succeed with a deployment key and no browser login
  • Resumed sessions no longer pad the sticky prompt with empty rows; cancelling a turn now keeps the rest of the prompt queue intact
  • Cancelling a running prompt no longer leaves the interface stuck on the cancelling spinner
v0.2.29

Grok Build 0.2.29

  • /rewind before a compaction boundary no longer leaves later prompts in context
  • Resuming large sessions is now substantially faster with no data loss
v0.2.28

Grok Build 0.2.28

  • Images read via read_file are now downscaled even when small in bytes but large in pixels
v0.2.27

Grok Build 0.2.27

  • Image and video generation tools now include the saved filename and session folder in their output
  • Monitor output no longer appears as raw XML in the conversation view during leader sessions
  • Windows commands containing & are no longer incorrectly rejected by run_terminal_cmd
  • python -c save-to-file reminder now suggests correct commands on Windows
v0.2.26

Grok Build 0.2.26

  • Large pasted content no longer triggers context-window errors or breaks compaction and memory flush
  • API-key users can now run grok agent --leader without forced interactive login or timeouts
  • Compaction no longer retries endlessly on credit, size, or auth failures; shows a clear message instead
  • Windows PowerShell and cmd.exe no longer falsely reject commands containing &
  • web_fetch no longer crashes the CLI on pages whose root element matches a cleaning selector
v0.2.23

Grok Build 0.2.23

  • Leader sessions can now be viewed and controlled from multiple clients with a live dashboard
  • Sessions can now be deleted directly from the /resume history picker
  • MCP plugin servers with bundled OAuth client IDs now authenticate correctly
v0.2.20

Grok Build 0.2.20

  • Eliminate ghost-cell artifacts in markdown table rendering
  • Make monitors visible and killable to the model
  • Preserve soft breaks in plan preview
  • Add image_to_video and reference_to_video tools
  • Add bundled imagine skill
  • Convert ICO images to PNG
  • Resolve [Image #N] attachment references in image_edit
  • Open fullscreen viewer on Enter for Search and ListDir blocks
  • Route MCP lifecycle notifications by sessionId + bound per-server init
  • Route mouse-wheel scroll to /btw overlay panel
  • Compaction: neutralize echoed summarization instruction in summary seed
  • Structured compaction prompt (successor-assistant, carry-forward, <analysis> block)
  • Dedupe between-turn subagent completion reminders
  • Allow auto-update to downgrade on rollback
  • Dedupe MCP servers declared in both .mcp.json and plugin.json
  • Fix local stdio MCP servers on Windows
v0.2.16

Grok Build 0.2.16

  • Fix stuck "Starting session..." / "Connecting MCPs (0/0)..."
  • Show where external skills/mcps/hooks/plugins originate in grok inspect
  • Fix Terminal.app unsafe shortcuts
  • Render streaming bash output
  • Use LLM to derive /loop interval from the request instead of hardcoded parsing
  • Fix parent session state (background tasks, monitor) leaking into subagent conversations
  • Make Claude/Cursor skills, AGENTS, mcps, and plugins configurable
  • Wire --permission-mode acceptEdits to auto-approve edits
  • Share FS watchers by working directory
  • Expose btrfs snapshot worktrees via symlink
  • Inject UTF-8 env defaults for Windows child processes
  • Fix blank completed bash / code-execution cards
  • Fix scroll wrap on scrolling vs. shortcuts on all menus
v0.2.15

Grok Build 0.2.15

  • Remember your last permission choice across tools, with a configurable first-prompt default in config.toml
v0.2.14

Grok Build 0.2.14

  • Open generated images and videos directly from the terminal UI via buttons or clicks
  • Group the background tasks panel into collapsible sections with clearer styling for monitors and loops
  • Generate session titles reliably using a fixed default model
  • Make --permission-mode override the permission_mode setting from config.toml
v0.2.13

Grok Build 0.2.13

  • Show timestamps on pinned user messages at top of scrollback
  • Fix command highlighting when prompt has paste chips
  • Update the context-usage indicator to show tokens by default
  • ANSI16 fallback for themes
  • Better context usage breakdown/rendering
  • Update highlighting for /loop, monitor, tag colors
  • Group Subagents → Tasks → Watchers, within subagents, order by agent type (Explore, General, Plan)
  • Tab now cycles Prompt → Scrollback → Tasks → Prompt
  • Order gateway turn-completion after streamed content
  • Formatting: fix language-tagged fenced code blocks and fix code under a list item
v0.2.11

Grok Build 0.2.11

  • Make tab bar arrow-focusable in picker modals (MCPs, plugins, hooks)
  • Show "Switched to mode" banner above prompt for Shift+Tab cycles
  • Instant loading indicator on model switch
  • Fix broken branch glyph on Windows
  • Fix WSL Ctrl+V image paste
  • Fix UX bug where /context always showed "Auto-compact at 85%"
  • Fix slash command autocomplete and rendering
  • Boost terminal video playback to 30fps
  • Left/Right arrows switch tabs in extensions modal
  • Up/Down arrows at list edges focus search input
  • Fix terminal resize on multiplexer
  • Open buttons for imagine media output
  • Render streaming bash tool output
  • Increase default retry budget to ~5 min and simplify retry UI
v0.2.8

Grok Build 0.2.8

  • Support interject action for queued prompts
  • Restore prompt focus on terminal tab click/FocusGained
  • Highlight commands in inline ghost and multi-line prompts
  • Reject 8×8 images on the client
  • Force static CRT linking on Windows to fix ARM64 DLL_NOT_FOUND
  • Fix dim terminal when the /rewind menu is open
  • Mouse-click support for cancel-turn and /rewind
  • Append transcript path to compaction summary
  • Fix stale 5-min default in monitor timeout_ms prompting
  • Clean up the system prompt further for task adherence
v0.2.7

Grok Build 0.2.7

  • Wrap around on Up/Down in slash menu and history search
  • Restore subagent UI and replay on session resume
  • Fix Ctrl+Delete on Windows
  • Windows drag-and-drop screenshot images and Ctrl/Alt+V image input
  • Add Windows-friendly alternatives for Ctrl+Enter / Ctrl+;
  • Strip base64 string images from read_file tool calls and pass as multimodal vision tokens
  • Share terminal backend, scheduler, and monitor across subagent sessions
  • Image pipeline improvements (fix truncation, min pixels)
  • /login command to reauth from inside the TUI
  • Add /usage
  • Handle Cmd+A in prompt to select all text in Ghostty
v0.2.3

Grok Build 0.2.3

  • Add "Yes, and don’t ask again for anything" always-approve mode
  • Add alpha/stable channel indicator to welcome screen
  • JetBrains / JediTerm terminal detection so the TUI does not misidentify the host
  • Persist model ID instead of display name for default_model
  • Clamp Q&A height to prevent ratatui buffer overflow
  • Better UX for tmux-inside-ssh copy/paste issues
  • Store vim mode persistently in config.toml so it survives restart
  • Memory usage improvements for managing chat history on the hot path
v0.1.220

Grok Build 0.1.220

  • Support gt and git in /execute-plan
  • Always-approve is now an option during permission selection
  • Fix routing for hook commands starting with tilde
  • Make group collapse header an independent selectable entry
  • Fix copy/paste on Linux Wayland (Omarchy, CachyOS, Hyprland)
  • Skip KKP for unknown terminals with no multiplexer (fixes broken Shift)
  • Paste file-path text instead of [Image #1] for non-image files
  • Improve legibility on legacy Windows Console Host
  • Delete misleading post-compaction todo reseed reminder
  • Auto-background long-running user-triggered bash-mode commands when invoked via !
v0.1.219

Grok Build 0.1.219

  • Fix usage-limit bugs with prompt caching
  • Fix layout-shifted chars in Kitty terminal
  • Replace Shift+Enter with Alt+Enter on VTE-based terminals (GNOME Terminal, Ptyxis, kgx, Tilix, etc.)
  • Default-expand search_replace, write_file, and run_terminal_command calls on scrollback
  • Mixed prose + URL paste no longer silently drops prose
  • Fix set_images byte-length collision losing chips
  • Make multi-line markdown link URLs clickable across word-wrap
  • Clear selection when expanding a truncated group
  • Remove read_file duplicate-read check that breaks after compaction
v0.1.218

Grok Build 0.1.218

  • Ctrl+X as default shortcuts-help binding on Windows
  • Fix image pasting and shortcuts keybinding on Linux
  • User-specified duration for video generation tool
  • Support temporary screenshot images on macOS
  • Validate image bytes to prevent retries
  • Improve compaction prompt (match training and rehydrate skills)
  • Increase ulimit on macOS and Linux, preventing ENOSPC errors from bricking the CLI
  • Multi-line image links are no longer clickable (and no longer break)
v0.1.217

Grok Build 0.1.217

  • Proactive system-reminders to reduce laziness
  • Improve compaction via prompt tuning and context management
  • Add /export
  • Fix rendering on extra-large monitors
  • Fix grok -w crash when git index is empty
  • Show path on image and video generation
  • Show first tool call when group is expanded
  • /config-agents modal
  • Expose session agent name in session/info
  • Laziness detector and todo reminder
  • Fix UTF-8 truncation in tool-call output causing crashes
v0.1.214

Grok Build 0.1.214

  • Rolling out X search and a much faster web search
  • Fix Windows rendering bugs on PowerShell
  • Fix arrow-up keybinding in modals
  • Fix non-vim mode keybinding hints
  • Fix Cmd+Click on wrapped links
  • Filter out sessions that had no user input from the picker
  • Support hookSpecificOutput.tool_input override
  • Prevent crash on exit when there are MCP servers with expiring tokens
  • Auto-refresh Skills when plugins change
v0.1.212

Grok Build 0.1.212

  • macOS x86_64 (Intel) support
  • Windows ARM64 (aarch64) support
  • Render links inside table cells
  • Shift+Enter newline insertion on Windows Terminal
  • Space / Enter / click toggle sections in shortcuts help modal
  • Enable Kitty Graphics Protocol for Warp terminal
  • Multi-image paste and drop
  • Add PowerPoint text extraction support to read_file
  • Hash cwd for CJK characters to fix path references
  • Improve compaction prompt
  • Condense the <user_guide> system prompt
  • Surface silent background sub-agent failures
  • Harden background tool to support no timeouts and self-kills
v0.1.211

Grok Build 0.1.211

  • Copy only path on ReadTool block
  • Redirect stderr to /dev/null to fix incorrect TUI text interleaving
  • Distinguish system- and user-initiated cancellations
  • Guard against crash conditions in event loop
  • Prevent mouse event leaks
  • Interactive read-file viewer
  • Improve pending-state UI
  • Lower MCP use_tool output limit to 20 KB
  • Fix agent waiting on background task and subagent completion
  • Embed read_file (images and PDFs) directly in tool-result message
  • Auto-update and OSC9 bug fixes
  • Improve skills to mitigate potential model laziness
v0.1.210

Grok Build 0.1.210

  • Fix Windows contrast/color/theme rendering
  • Fix German QWERTZ AltGr on Windows
  • Convert session timestamps to local timezone
  • Add backslash continuation to plan mode
  • Fix auth for plugin-provided MCP servers
  • Default to PowerShell on Windows
  • Improve search tool on BM25 queries
  • Decrease large bash-tool output to 20k chars front-and-back
  • Auto-install shell completions for bash, zsh, and fish
  • Force-refetch managed MCP configs
  • Don’t auto-wake the model on cancelled/killed tasks or subagents
  • Return images in tool response instead of a deferred message
v0.1.209

Grok Build 0.1.209

  • Plan-mode controls are more intuitive with improved shortcuts
  • Fix terminal setup for cases where copy-on-highlight or paste did not work
  • Improvements to how skills prompting works in Grok Build
  • Absolute line numbers instead of relative line numbers in the edit panel
  • Stop background tasks from blowing up the context window
  • Nudge the model to use /tmp instead of writing inline Python scripts