Grok Build Updates & Release Notes

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

Updates

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

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

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

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

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