Grok Build Updates & Release Notes

Dashboard rows show a short summary of what the agent did in the previous turn

Extensions modal groups items alphabetically with collapsible Skills sections

Grok skips the project-directory prompt when launched from home or other non-project directories

/feedback opens a dedicated report box instead of prompt mode

Auto theme detection works over SSH and inside tmux

Markdown tables reflow inside cells on narrow panes instead of clipping

Permission prompts show the complete script; long bash bodies expand with Ctrl-F

MCP tools that return images no longer drop or corrupt large screenshots

Sandboxed Grok starts on large directories with many deny-glob matches

Rapid send-now presses no longer lose earlier queued messages

Esc and stop prevent background tasks from restarting the model after cancel

Login no longer skips when an invalid API key is in the environment

Model picker and command palette work while reviewing a plan

Tab and Esc behave consistently on question, permission, and cancel-turn cards

/new from the dashboard returns to the dashboard from an empty prompt

Codebase restore no longer hangs on large or shallow git repositories

Remote resume restores conversation only unless --restore-code is passed

Copying CJK text with the mouse includes every character at the selection edges

API errors appear as clean banners instead of raw JSON dumps

Typing exit or quit in the dashboard exits the CLI

Mode indicator (plan/agent/ask) stays in sync after resume and mode changes

/delete returns to the dashboard when you delete a session opened from it

Enter in the slash command menu runs the highlighted command

Grok retries more server errors during outages

Session-only slash commands show a message when used from the dashboard

Queued prompts stay visible while waiting on subagents, and slash/image rows can be reordered

Auto recaps no longer appear mid-turn or while busy

/btw error messages wrap fully

Forking very large sessions no longer uses many times the session file size in memory

Exiting an empty session is instant, even on slow networks

Always-allow for bash commands lets you edit a free-form glob pattern instead of only word-prefix scopes

Long responses show a clickable arrow that jumps back to the start of the answer

Auto mode auto-approves more common read-only git commands and harmless file appends

Plan previews show Mermaid diagram buttons (Open Image, Copy Image Path, Copy Source)

Question cards let you Tab through answers instead of losing focus to the scrollback

Resume picker no longer tries to load a session from invalid input when you press Enter

Background task completion messages no longer grow unbounded for huge task logs

Plan viewer scrollbar responds to clicks on the border column and renders without dark stripes in Terminal.app

Expired external auth provider credentials trigger interactive sign-in instead of a silent 401 loop

/btw side questions reuse the parent session's cached prefix for faster responses

grok doctor and tmux-backed startup are faster when no live tmux processes remain

Sessions can be permanently deleted from the dashboard or welcome list

Keyboard shortcuts help (Ctrl+.) documents prompt history and conversation search

grok doctor warns when tmux is reducing colors and can fix the config

[stop] / Ctrl+C during /compact now cancels instead of no-opping

/btw retries on temporary model overload instead of failing immediately

Automatic recaps no longer appear twice after the same turn

Background tasks no longer stay stuck as Running when they finish quickly

Plan mode indicator disappears right after approving a plan

Dragging the scrollbar in the plan preview works as expected

Compaction handles certain context-length errors

Headless streaming output includes tool calls, results, and usage with --output-format streaming-json

New /undo slash command restores files and chat to an earlier turn (alias for /rewind )

Slash commands are hidden or refused in minimal/fullscreen mode based on their declared support

Fixed repeated forced re-logins after laptop sleep or network hiccups during token refresh

Suppressed spurious history load warnings on draft conversations with no server history yet

Settings enum pickers keep the selected radio button on the current value until you press Enter

Deep-linked settings such as /privacy close the settings modal on Esc or Enter instead of returning to the list

Fixed chat history corruption that could duplicate tool results or cause later 400 errors after repeated identical tool calls

Fixed infinite redirect loops in embedded previews when the browser blocks the required cookie

Improved the action-stationarity nudge so it no longer incorrectly claims tool results were identical

Fixed external auth provider commands (auth_provider_command) on Windows

Fixed incorrect 'Turn cancelled by user' messages on internal send-now wake turns

Fixed language server crashes (e.g. Roslyn on every edit) and missing C# diagnostics; improved diagnostics reliability for other servers

Improved prompt caching for long conversations, reducing repeated billing on growing transcripts

MCP servers can be enabled or disabled from the CLI with grok mcp enable <name> and grok mcp disable <name>

Full plan markdown can be copied to the clipboard with y during plan approval or preview

Automatic recovery from repetitive loops in model output is enabled by default

Terminal command output is no longer lost or duplicated when the gateway is unreachable

Invalid MCP server entries in config.toml no longer prevent Grok from starting; problems are shown in grok inspect

SessionEnd hooks run on exit in non-leader TUI and headless sessions

Paste chips display with the correct background in inline prompts and question inputs

Background task status shows only elapsed duration instead of absolute timestamps

Session lists no longer drop real sessions when the remote registry reports an outdated turn count of zero

/loop stores prompts that include stop conditions so recurring tasks can terminate themselves when done

Reduced spurious warning messages for common auth and config scenarios

Fixed conda activation (and other sourced scripts that read $@) when using persistent or login-capture shells

Background task status rows clear correctly after long foreground shell commands complete

Agent subprocesses and idle inhibitors are cleaned up when the parent CLI process dies unexpectedly

Fixed truncated plans in minimal mode and improved visual separation between reasoning and output (including NO_COLOR)

Fixed credential loss across multiple grok processes sharing the same auth file

Fixed doubled Delete and other keys on older Alacritty terminals

Fixed false paywall messages for free-tier and unmatched users

Cold start shows the UI instantly while models and settings load in the background

Large session forks and resumes use far less memory and avoid spikes

Limited the workspace daemon's worker threads to prevent thread exhaustion on high-core shared machines

Release notes

CLI version policy now has separate soft update floors/ceilings and hard startup requirements

New /tutorial slash command opens an opt-in nine-topic onboarding tour of Grok

Terminal and environment fixes are now consolidated under the /doctor command with clearer guidance; grok doctor fix can now repair common tmux clipboard and passthrough problems

Marketplace add now rejects non-git URLs at add time instead of failing later

Slash commands can now show optional bracket tags (e.g. [new])

Queued prompts now offer an [edit] mouse button alongside Send now and cancel

Voice shortcut toggle in settings can disable the Ctrl+Space/F8 keybind without disabling voice entirely

Image edit can now use a remotely configured model slug instead of the hardcoded default

Per-provider auth helpers now work on Windows and can run from a configurable working directory

/resume now shows only native Grok sessions by default and shows a hint when external sessions are hidden

grok --resume can now resume a session by its title as well as by ID

Workflows overlay now shows live per-agent progress and automatically follows the active phase

Workflow runs that failed can now be resumed; scratch file limits were also increased

Hooks can now be defined in config.toml in addition to JSON files

Clicking the "still running" status now opens the tasks pane

File attachments now appear correctly when resuming or replaying conversations

Marketplace source refreshes no longer hang the TUI or trap you in the extensions modal

Dashboard overlay now correctly returns after forking a dashboard-attached session

Linux voice dictation now works on PipeWire versions before 1.6

Fork from a rewound session now copies the correct live-branch history

Voice mode now lets you edit already-dictated text without closing the microphone

Fixed startup hangs on Linux after concurrent launches or rapid restarts

MCP tools now appear without restart after enrolling or updating a managed service

Plugin subagents now see the same MCP tools as the parent session

Copy confirmations now show shorter messages when the clipboard succeeds

Repeated identical tool calls now end the turn silently instead of showing a stop banner

Web search now defaults to grok-4.5

Voice dictation text is no longer dropped when pressing Enter to send

Bash mode (!) now shows yellow prefix and action label in minimal mode

Workflows are now enabled by default

Users can now disable image generation and video generation tools (and their slash commands) via config.toml or environment variables

/session-info now displays whether the session uses OAuth or an API key and where to manage the account

You can now run grok doctor fix commands directly from inside the TUI instead of only from the CLI

!cmd commands now allow up to one hour before timing out

Startup warnings now point to /doctor for details and fixes

Dashboard hover and clicks no longer miss the gaps between items in wide mode

Shift/Alt+Enter now inserts a newline while editing a queued prompt

Queued prompt edits under combine mode no longer lose changes due to premature hold release

Forking a session that used compaction no longer causes later rewinds to fail with missing checkpoint errors

When a permission prompt appears while viewing scrollback, focus now correctly moves to the prompt so you can answer

Pressing Esc once now cancels the current agent turn (except in fullscreen vim scrollback mode)

Grok now automatically stops a turn that keeps repeating the exact same tool call many times in a row

Background subagent completion messages no longer leak into unrelated sessions when multiple sessions are active

When the auto-permission classifier times out or fails, Grok now shows a normal permission prompt instead of silently denying

Managed MCP tools no longer time out prematurely on slow operations like Notion updates

Voice dictation on macOS now uses less memory by running capture in a temporary helper process

Usage and diagnostics

• /usage now shows token counts and cost for the current session
• grok doctor fix terminal.ssh-wrap can install the recommended SSH wrapper alias
• [model_providers.] lets operators share gateway settings across custom models
• Queued follow-ups can now be batched into a single model turn with the new combine_queued_prompts setting
• /doctor is now the main slash command for terminal, tmux, clipboard and keyboard diagnostics
• Voice dictation now explains when the microphone delivered only silence (macOS permission) versus no speech detected
• Duplicate 'Worked for' markers no longer stack in the transcript when background tasks defer during a parked turn
• The idle status row now clearly says '1 subagent still running' instead of 'watching · 1 subagent' when background work remains
• Background /loop iterations no longer overlap when descendant subagents are still running

Stop hooks can now keep the agent running by feeding feedback back to the model instead of ending the turn

Sessions can now be imported and resumed from mirrored state across hosts

Auto mode now continues after classifier blocks by telling the agent the reason, escalating only after repeated denials

Ctrl+B now backgrounds running commands; Ctrl+G toggles the tasks pane

OAuth popups in live preview now redirect correctly after login

Git status shown to the model at startup now includes unstaged and untracked files

Minimal mode now shows full reasoning in scrollback and collapses successful lookup results to one-line headers

Recap summaries after idle now load much faster by reusing the previous turn's cached context