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Grok Build

AI coding agent for the terminal (Grok CLI).

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Grok Build 0.2.13

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v0.2.13
  • 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

Grok Build 0.2.11

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v0.2.11
  • 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

Grok Build 0.2.8

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v0.2.8
  • 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

Grok Build 0.2.7

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v0.2.7
  • 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

Grok Build 0.2.3

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v0.2.3
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.220

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v0.1.220
  • 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 !

Grok Build 0.1.219

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v0.1.219
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.218

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v0.1.218
  • 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)

Grok Build 0.1.217

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v0.1.217
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.214

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v0.1.214
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.212

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v0.1.212
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.211

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v0.1.211
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.210

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v0.1.210
  • 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

Grok Build 0.1.209

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v0.1.209
  • 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
Latest
May 30, 2026
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