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Grok Build is now available to every SuperGrok user. Use Grok Build and Composer 2.5 inside the TUI, with full mouse interactivity, plugins and skills support, and headless support for bots and orchestrators. Install on macOS, WSL, and Linux with one command, or on Windows with PowerShell.

• 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

Composer 2.5 is now available in Grok Build. Try it from the /models menu.

• 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

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

What's Changed

• Add grok-build-0.1 to ChatModel by @shawnthapa in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/155
• Add context compaction support by @shawnthapa in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/156
• Bump version from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0 by @shawnthapa in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/157

Full Changelog: https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/compare/v1.14.0...v1.15.0

• 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

• 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

• 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 0.1, our fastest coding model, is now available via the xAI API in public beta.

• 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

What's Changed

• Add enable_image_search to web_search and SERVER_SIDE_TOOL_IMAGE_SEARCH enum by @ushiromiya-lion in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/152
• Bump version to 1.14.0 by @ushiromiya-lion in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/153

New Contributors

• @ushiromiya-lion made their first contribution in https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/pull/152

Full Changelog: https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python/compare/v1.13.0...v1.14.0

Grok is now available in Kilo Code, an open-source agentic coding platform.

• 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

Integration enabling Grok usage within Kilo Code.

• 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

• 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 CLI with inline diffs, plan viewer, and parallel subagents.