Grok Build Updates & Release Notes

grok inspect now shows effective compatibility settings for Cursor, Claude, and Codex sessions

New setting "Match display refresh rate" lets high-refresh displays run the TUI at native cadence

Parked subagent status no longer duplicates or interleaves incorrectly in scrollback

Status line during waits now shows elapsed time before the queued-message hint

Queued messages sent with Enter now appear immediately instead of vanishing briefly

Resume hint after quitting minimal mode now prints the correct grok --minimal --resume command

Rate-limit messages now correctly direct API-key users to team plans instead of personal upgrades

Session picker now resumes recent Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sessions

Welcome screen now offers a one-click resume nudge for recent Claude, Codex, or Cursor sessions

Web fetch tool preserves full truncated page content as readable artifacts instead of discarding it

Multiline mode now correctly sends the top queued message on empty Enter when a turn is running

Queued commands no longer disappear or delay when pressing Enter twice quickly during a running turn

Minimal mode text is now readable on dark terminals with proper contrast and highlighted user prompts

Grok no longer crashes when printing resume hints after the terminal pane has closed

Long-running turns with multiple waits now show updated status markers in the transcript instead of appearing stuck

Claude and Cursor hooks are now correctly disabled at session start when disabled in config

You can now pin authentication to API key or OIDC in config.toml; the unpinned method is no longer tried automatically

/context now shows token costs for skills and MCP servers

Linux middle-click paste from the primary selection now works; clipboard errors are handled more reliably

/terminal-setup now shows your terminal's color support level and which themes are available

grok setup --json prints your team's managed configuration without installing it

Messages you type while the model waits on tasks now stay queued; pressing Enter twice sends them immediately by cancelling the current turn

How-to Guides modal now shows a tip linking to Ask Grok above the footer shortcuts

Subagent task and spawn_subagent tools now accept an optional model parameter in the CLI

Keyboard Shortcuts modal now lists the paste key binding for images under the Input section

A pre_tool_use deny now feeds the reason back so the model can retry instead of cancelling the turn

Plan mode now strictly rejects edits outside the plan file, even under always-approve

Web search and X search no longer fail when both a local function tool and the backend hosted tool are active

SQLite databases no longer cause bus errors on network filesystems such as NFS

Resuming a session that is already open now focuses the existing view instead of creating duplicates

Turn completion markers in scrollback now read "Worked for …" instead of "Turn completed in …"

/btw loading spinner now animates correctly when the main session is idle

Mid-turn wait spinners now correctly show "Waiting on task output…" instead of Thinking

Scrollbar thumb is now visible in the oscura-midnight theme

Status messages for background work now end with a period

Editing queued prompts no longer freezes the terminal or duplicates text into the composer

Headless JSON output now includes token usage and cost per prompt and session

SDK turns now expose detailed token usage and cost information via Turn.usage

Double-click or Enter on a previous user message now lets you edit and resubmit it directly from the transcript

Text selection in scrollback now works better when starting on chrome, gaps, or while scrolling

Shell commands using rg (ripgrep) no longer require permission prompts by default

Voice mode is now available for API-key sessions

New environment variables allow tuning scroll and draw cadence for high-refresh displays

Background tasks started by the model in headless mode are now killed on exit instead of leaking

Agent process leaks on failed spawns and missing-stdio teardown are now prevented

Parked turn markers no longer appear after interjections and now count down as background tasks finish

The /context tool definitions line no longer shows the cryptic disclaimer suffix

Terminal release waits boundedly for the process to exit and repeated waits share the drain grace

Fixed a crash when the agent asked a question on narrow terminals

Fixed misleading keyboard hints in the /mcps panel in minimal mode

Clipboard copy now reports success correctly when using iTerm2 over SSH

Fixed scroll/input conflicts when plan approval appeared over an open edit block

Fixed frequent MCP and skills reloads that could freeze sessions on devboxes

MCP servers using HTTP (such as nebula for Slack) now automatically recover from disconnects

Next reset time in /usage now shows in your local timezone instead of Pacific Time

System notifications now carry structured kind/title/body for better rendering

x.ai/pr/status now reports whether an open PR is in the merge queue

Compact mode now activates automatically on very small terminals

Up arrow on an empty prompt now browses prompt history; /history searches it

Stop hook runs now appear inline on the turn-completed line instead of a separate block

Subagent rows now fold into verb-group headers and the tasks pane shows live activity labels

Dashboard shortcuts now advertise ? instead of Ctrl+. on terminals that cannot deliver the latter

Double-clicking scrollback while Text selection is fold/nav now shows a tip offering Ctrl+Y to enable Word select

grok worktree ls now works as a short alias for grok worktree list

MCP tool output truncation can now be set per-repo in .grok/config.toml

Auto-send of queued follow-ups during task waits can now be enabled fleet-wide via remote settings

Welcome screen now offers one-click resume of a recent Claude Code session via ctrl+u

Vim l key now opens the selected agent detail view in the dashboard

Terminal commands with no args now run through a shell, matching the CLI

Agent teardown no longer crashes on slim Linux images that lack the ps command

Esc now dismisses an open /btw panel before backing out of a dashboard overlay

Resumed grok.com chats now use the conversation's last model instead of the gateway default

JetBrains terminals on Windows now default to minimal mode to avoid raw mouse-report leaks in the prompt

Skill token highlights now survive line wraps and the slash menu opens when typing / before existing text

Truncated or tiny images are now dropped before sending and previously poisoned sessions self-heal on restart

Session switch hints after /new or fork now show the working command in minimal mode

Progress bars in Ghostty and WezTerm now stop correctly for parked task waits

/effort now rejects levels the current model does not support instead of sending a bad value to the API

/recap on a fresh session now says "No messages yet" instead of failing

Monitor and system messages no longer appear as user prompts when resuming old sessions

/rewind completion now appears as a brief toast instead of a permanent transcript line

Auto recaps no longer appear under a newer user message when you start typing again

Authentication retries after token refresh no longer hang for minutes or days

Text selection tip no longer appears on the first double-click or on non-assistant blocks

Skill slash commands queued while a turn runs can now be sent immediately with Enter or the interject chord

Drag text selection now works inside the dashboard dispatch input box

Multi-line paste chips in dashboard inputs now support preview and expand like the main prompt

Live previews now always fetch the latest content without browser or CDN caching

Release Notes

Teams can now ship default allowed commands via managed_config.toml (user deny rules still win)

Mid-turn interjections now appear as normal user prompts (❯) instead of a separate cyan block

IME text input in Otty no longer attaches unrelated clipboard images on every character

Rewind now fully removes the selected turn from both scrollback and the model's conversation history

Queued prompts now abort long blocking waits instead of waiting for the full timeout

File links and media now work for worktree sessions under ~/.grok/worktrees/

Collapsed Read/Edit tool rows now show only the filename instead of long absolute paths

Clipboard copies on Wayland now succeed even when the terminal loses focus mid-copy

User messages queued behind an auto-wake turn are no longer lost when the user presses Ctrl+C

Slash completion now shows sibling skills that share a frontmatter name and correctly sizes wrapped descriptions

Single tool calls that belong to a verb group now collapse into an aggregated header row

Fixed sessions that became permanently stuck after tool-use history corruption

/always-approve and /auto now toggle their mode on and off when run repeatedly

Terminal command cards on grok.com now correctly settle after foreground bash tasks

Copy failure toast now recommends trying /minimal for native terminal rendering

File watching on Linux now uses far fewer system resources for large projects with many dependencies

Changes

/sessions now opens the Agent Dashboard instead of a separate picker

New /goal slash command is now available

grok inspect now lists skills from [skills].paths and correctly labels bundled vs user skills

--minimal and --fullscreen choices are now remembered for future plain grok launches

Queued bash commands promoted at turn end now render their output instead of disappearing

Xcode / Foundation ACP clients can now drive grok agent stdio without silent parse drops on session/* calls

read_file now returns full single-line content (minified JSON, large dumps) instead of silently clipping at 2000 characters

Background task command preambles with newlines now render on separate lines instead of collapsing

Text selections now highlight uniformly even over inline code, links, and syntax-colored spans

grok --minimal now supports native drag-select on classic Windows conhost terminals

Skill tokens are now highlighted teal when used mid-sentence

Fixed a crash when a filtered list shrinks while the filter is active

Scroll lines and scroll speed settings now support fine unit-step adjustments

Project-specific plugins are no longer visible outside their project directory

First prompt no longer stalls for many seconds on large repositories while the filesystem watcher starts

Esc no longer cancels a running turn; use Ctrl+C instead. Double-Esc rewind now works while focused on scrollback

MCP permission prompts now show the planned arguments so you can judge what the tool will actually do

The "Managed by grok.com" link in the Extensions modal is now clickable and underlined

Dragging inside rendered markdown tables now selects whole cells or rectangular ranges and copies as TSV

Shift+Tab now goes straight to Plan mode when the plan-mode tip is showing

grok --minimal now aligns the prompt, status bar, and messages flush-left with the welcome card

/plugins no longer lists never-installed Claude marketplace entries and now groups plugins by their real source

Successful image compression no longer leaves a permanent line in the transcript

--no-ask-user now also disables ask_user_question for subagents

Fixed a crash shortly after launch on some systems caused by the telemetry exporter

• /minimal and /fullscreen commands let you switch the current session between minimal and fullscreen modes
• ask_user_question tool can now be enabled or disabled via config.toml, environment variables, or remote flags while defaulting to on
• User-run shell commands now display their complete output after finishing instead of silently dropping middle lines
• Edit tool output now correctly highlights multi-line strings and scopes that previously spilled across hunks
• Always allow grants for MCP, web_fetch and bash now take effect immediately in auto mode without re-prompting
• Cmd/Ctrl+click on bare http(s) links now opens only once on Warp terminals
• Cmd/Ctrl+click now works on imagine media paths and URLs that wrap across multiple terminal rows
• grok update on Windows no longer fails when a previous .old executable is still running
• Pasting images on macOS is now ~65× faster by reading the pasteboard directly instead of via osascript

Session titles from /rename now appear on the prompt box border after resume

grok models banner now correctly reports per-model API keys and deployment keys

MCP tool output size limit is now configurable via environment variable, config.toml, or GrowthBook (default unchanged)

Chat conversations listed in the unified sidebar can now be renamed or deleted from the desktop app

You can now add a local directory as a plugin marketplace source with grok plugin marketplace add

Auto permission mode now prompts far less often on routine development commands

Short media paths the model prints (images/1.jpg) are now clickable and open the file

Preview now prefers common dev ports like 8080 when multiple HTTP servers are detected

Model list now refreshes after upgrading from a free to a paid subscription tier

Extensions modal now shows clearer enable/disable and install hints that match what each key actually does

Cursor:Shell now accepts foreground '&'

Folder trust no longer prompts for or scans the entire home directory when it is a git repo

Code blocks no longer lose their background shading on the final line of unterminated fences

Plan mode now activates immediately when toggled during an active turn instead of waiting for the next prompt

Clicking back into the terminal window now focuses the prompt immediately when a permission or plan-approval panel is waiting

Paths the model emits inside quotes no longer end with literal backslash-n characters and cause file-not-found errors

Next reset time shown by /usage is now correct during daylight saving time

The ask-user-question tool now waits up to 30 minutes by default before timing out

The free-usage paywall no longer offers a Try Again button

Inline images no longer bleed through when entering or leaving the fullscreen subagent view

The [Open Image] button under generated media is now colored like a link

Preview routing now auto-selects well-known ports like 8080 even with framework signals on obscure ports

Login screen now centers the authentication URL when it fits on one line

Enter key now queues follow-ups by default while the agent waits on task output

Voice dictation now works on Linux (requires pipewire, pulseaudio-utils or alsa-utils)

New /auto slash command switches to classifier permission mode; the menu now shows only the other mode

--effort and --reasoning-effort are now interchangeable CLI flags for setting reasoning effort

Image edits now use the higher-quality Imagine model for better output

Try Again on the free-usage paywall now correctly resubmits after rate-limit retries

Cursor now respects your terminal’s default blink style instead of always blinking

Skill commands in scrollback now highlight only the command name, not the arguments

Plan files now default to .grok/plan.md to match Grok conventions

Shell state (cwd, env) now persists across tool calls in Cursor:Shell sessions

LaTeX math renders correctly for display equations and complex subscripts

Queue hint in the terminal no longer shows incorrect bold text on part of the message

Git operations like rebase no longer cause long pauses from repeated full-repo scans

Scrolling feels smoother with better trackpad and wheel handling plus configurable speed and mode

Session search now returns tighter multi-word results and handles filenames and plurals better

Session picker now always searches conversation content for queries of two or more characters

Tool call grouping is now enabled by default, folding consecutive reads and searches into single rows

Plugins tab now supports u to update the selected plugin and shows non-blocking success feedback

Reasoning effort used for a session is now recorded in summary.json and conversation history

Session content search now correctly indexes messages containing escape sequences like newlines and quotes

Formatted links now keep their link color when wrapped in bold, italic, or strikethrough

Resuming sessions no longer fails permanently when history files contain corrupted lines from interrupted writes

Subscription upgrades are now detected automatically without restarting the CLI

Bash permission prompts now offer a "Never allow" choice that persists the deny rule

New /docs slash command opens How-to Guides picker, browses web docs, or jumps directly to a guide by title

Per-model reasoning effort menus are now configurable from the server and config.toml without a client release

Finished thinking blocks now fold into grouped tool-call rows when group_tool_verbs is enabled

--minimal mode now always uses your terminal’s own colors so text stays readable on any background

Invalid fields in [model.*] config blocks no longer cause the whole model to disappear from the picker

File tools no longer target paths with literal trailing newlines or whitespace from model output

Fixed interactions in no-freeform question modals so clicks below the last option no longer enter input mode

Background tasks now correctly wake the agent after a cancelled blocking wait instead of staying idle

Copying quoted text from rendered responses no longer includes the quote bar prefix in pretty mode