grok-build-upstream-mirror/crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.2.106 — 2026-07-18

Features

• Added GROK_CLIPBOARD_NO_OSC52 env var to stop clipboard sequences from appearing as garbage in unsupported terminals.
• Scheduled tasks can now be updated in place; one-time tasks are retired in favor of background commands.

Bug Fixes

• Copies now always write a backup file so text remains recoverable when the terminal clipboard fails.
• Syntax highlighting in --minimal mode is now visible on light terminals.

0.2.105 — 2026-07-18

Features

• /btw now works inside grok --minimal, showing answers in the live area and committing them to scrollback on Esc.
• New Appearance setting "Snap prompt to top on send" lets you keep the viewport where it is instead of jumping to the new prompt.
• Default model is now Grok 4.5 with high/medium/low reasoning effort and improved compaction settings.
• New /summarize slash command is now available as an alias for /recap to request an on-demand session summary.

Bug Fixes

• Local shell tools now see the same environment variables, aliases, and functions as your login shell.
• Syntax highlighting in diffs and the file viewer no longer miscolors strings or comments that span multiple lines.
• Global rules from ~/.grok/rules and compatible vendor homes are now discovered correctly.
• Background tasks that finish after you press Ctrl+C no longer automatically resume the model.
• *Ctrl+* out of the dashboard now returns you to the agent you came from.
• MCP OAuth logins now succeed against servers that require the RFC 9207 issuer parameter in the callback.
• Agent dashboard now shows fleet roster entries even when the local agent list is empty.
• Long-session compaction no longer fails on servers that reject tool_choice none when tools are attached.

Performance

• Scrolling feels smoother and less jagged under load or over slow connections.

0.2.104 — 2026-07-17

Features

• Background work counts now appear in a persistent status line instead of repeated transcript messages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed authentication recovery for idle sessions after token timeouts.
• Retry failed messages no longer contain raw HTML error pages.
• Rate limit messages now show the server detail without the wire prefix.
• In-place prompt editing is temporarily disabled due to scroll behavior issues.

0.2.103 — 2026-07-17

Features

• New require_sha option prevents remote plugins from tracking mutable branches or tags.
• Local sessions now inherit full rc environment, cwd, and exports across tool calls (configurable).
• MCP servers from plugins can now require setup choices such as a regional site before connecting.
• Quitting a fullscreen session now shows the session title and last exchange above the resume command.
• SSH sessions now show a one-time tip recommending grok wrap ssh <host> for clipboard and terminal restore.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed GitHub PR status detection when the gh CLI inherits forcing color environment variables.
• Fixed a race where an early cancel could permanently wedge a session's turn slot.
• grok and the agent binary now stay in sync even when no update is installed.
• Copying a multiline queued prompt now copies the complete text instead of a collapsed summary.
• grok wrap now restores the terminal after SSH disconnects or other abrupt child exits.
• Voice speech-to-text now works with per-model API keys in config.toml without requiring grok login.
• Copy over SSH or in containers now shows clearer feedback when delivery cannot be confirmed.
• Local Bash sessions no longer keep a persistent shell across calls, avoiding failures after directory deletion.

0.2.102 — 2026-07-16

Breaking Changes

• --minimal and --fullscreen flags now apply only to the current session.

Features

• New /jump slash command lets you quickly jump to any previous turn in the conversation.
• New /timeline sidebar shows a clickable tick rail for fast navigation between conversation turns.
• grok login now requests Grok Projects scopes so workspace listing works after consent.
• Permission mode can now be set fleet-wide via remote config when no local setting exists.
• Edit tool output has a setting to show a compact one-line summary instead of always-expanded diffs.
• Tab completion in !bash mode now works like a normal terminal (prefix fill, dropdown, directory drill-down).
• Enterprise deployments can now disable voice dictation via requirements.toml so /voice and Ctrl+Space are hidden for everyone.
• User prompts now appear bold only in --minimal mode; fullscreen keeps normal weight.
• grok plugin install now accepts a marketplace's registered name as a qualifier.
• Consecutive edits to the same file now collapse into a single scrollback row when collapsed edit blocks are enabled.
• Local sessions now inherit your shell environment variables and keep the current directory across commands.

Bug Fixes

• Login and re-login no longer stack multiple device-code polls or leave stale flows running.
• Background task tools now render with correct icons and titles instead of the generic MCP wrench.
• Task tool now correctly validates and displays allowed model slugs for subagents.
• Rewind now correctly handles bash transcripts, permission follow-ups, and sessions that mix old and new prompt markers.
• Re-login during a session now immediately uses the new token instead of requiring a new session.
• Terminal commands using globs now behave the same on zsh as on bash and no longer fail with shell errors.
• Installer no longer replaces stowed shell configuration symlinks with plain files on upgrade.
• Voice transcription now works with enterprise API bases and API-key authentication.
• Fixed crashes on some network-mounted home directories by using a safer SQLite journal mode.
• Home and End keys now move to the ends of the current wrapped line in the prompt.
• Arrow keys and Esc now work correctly inside viewers opened from the dashboard.
• Warns at startup when user and project sandbox profiles define the same name differently.
• Billing upgrade links now show the full URL in the transcript (and copy it) when a browser cannot be opened.
• Fixed Ctrl+Y yank no longer working after sending a prompt.
• No longer shows permission prompts seconds after a turn was cancelled with Esc or Ctrl+C.
• Page Up and Page Down now move the highlighted entry to the top or bottom of the visible scrollback area.
• Conflicting project and user sandbox profiles now show a clear warning on the welcome screen.
• OAuth login URLs no longer contain duplicate referrer parameters.
• File links in official VS Code Remote-SSH terminals now use VS Code's native path handling.
• Minimal mode now shows the folder-trust prompt after sign-in when required.
• Skills whose names collide with built-in slash commands are now reachable via qualified names.
• Fixed background task tracking when using grok -p --no-wait-for-background so tasks are properly reaped on exit.
• Rate limit errors (429) now show specific server messages (capacity, team limits, free-usage) instead of generic upgrade prompts, with correct copy based on auth type.
• /copy slash command is now available in minimal mode.

Performance

• Improved recap and compaction behavior.

0.2.101 — 2026-07-13

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.100 — 2026-07-13

Features

• Session picker now discovers and resumes recent Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sessions.
• Welcome screen now offers a one-click resume nudge for recent Claude, Codex, or Cursor sessions.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.99 — 2026-07-12

Features

• Multiline input now works on the agent dashboard the same way it does in regular sessions.
• PageUp and PageDown now scroll the conversation while the prompt is focused.
• Keyboard Shortcuts modal now follows Vim mode navigation keys when enabled.

0.2.98 — 2026-07-12

Breaking Changes

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

Features

• /context now shows token costs for skills and MCP servers.
• env_key in config now accepts an array of environment variable names.
• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• Content-filter refusals from providers now show an explanation instead of ending silently with no output.
• 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.

0.2.97 — 2026-07-11

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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 HTTP MCP servers for Slack) now automatically recover from disconnects.
• Next reset time in /usage now shows in your local timezone instead of Pacific Time.

0.2.96 — 2026-07-10

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.95 — 2026-07-09

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Performance

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

0.2.94 — 2026-07-09

Features

• /sessions now opens the Agent Dashboard instead of a separate picker.
• New /goal slash command** is now available when the workspace supports it.
• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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 such as /pr-workflow 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 Claude 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.

0.2.93 — 2026-07-08

Breaking Changes

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

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• --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.

0.2.92 — 2026-07-08

Features

• /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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Performance

• Pasting images on macOS is now ~65× faster by reading the pasteboard directly instead of via osascript.

0.2.91 — 2026-07-07

Bug Fixes

• Voice dictation indicator and stop button now remain visible and clickable during plan mode review.
• New Worktree dialog now expands to show long names and scrolls with a leading … when the terminal is narrow.

0.2.90 — 2026-07-07

Features

• New /minimal and /fullscreen slash commands let you switch the current session between minimal and fullscreen modes without quitting.
• 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 remote settings (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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• 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.

0.2.89 — 2026-07-07

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• 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.

Performance

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

0.2.88 — 2026-07-06

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.87 — 2026-07-05

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• --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.

0.2.86 — 2026-07-04

Features

• Voice language setting now lets you pick speech-to-text language (including System) in the Editor settings.
• Tab autocomplete now suggests your next prompt as ghost text after each turn.
• /usage (and /cost) is now hidden for free and X Basic personal accounts.
• Media generation no longer hits per-session file limits; image and video byte budgets increased.

Bug Fixes

• --minimal flag now shows in grok --help.
• Session resume notifications no longer appear when a workspace boots for the first time.
• Claude-style Bash(cmd:*) permission rules are now correctly translated to prefix matches.

0.2.85 — 2026-07-03

Features

• Pressing Enter on an empty prompt now sends the top queued follow-up immediately while a turn is running.
• Tool call grouping can now be enabled via config.toml or settings to collapse consecutive read/search/list calls.
• Consecutive tool calls of the same kind can now be folded into a single row when group_tool_verbs is enabled.
• Subagent conversations now receive the same type-specific instructions in gateway chat as in the CLI.
• Scheduled automation tasks now show their header panel correctly in gateway chat sessions.
• Promotional announcements now appear with clickable CTAs and can be non-dismissible.
• Subagents now run in the background by default unless explicitly set to false.

Bug Fixes

• Permission prompts now correctly wrap long bash commands while preserving structure and quotes.
• Claude Code settings with permissions.defaultMode are now correctly honored.
• Project skills and commands are now discovered even when their directories are gitignored.
• Inline LaTeX math with padding spaces now renders correctly instead of showing raw dollar signs.
• Manual /recap now works on the same turn and long auto recaps are hidden from view while still saved.
• Always allow for common commands like ls and git status now remembers just the command instead of extra arguments.

0.2.84 — 2026-07-03

Features

• Announcements now update live during active sessions without restart or /new.
• Hiding an announcement no longer suppresses later criticals; new ones reappear automatically.
• run_terminal_cmd now requires a one-sentence description rationale in every invocation.
• ask_user_question timeout policy is now configurable in config.toml and /settings.
• Ask-Question timeout can now be toggled from /settings (Agent & Approval).
• Thinking/reasoning blocks are now shown by default while the model is working.
• Critical announcements now show a red title with a clickable [hide] button and aligned message.
• Added remote_fetch option under [features] in config.toml to disable all backend catalog and settings fetches for air-gapped environments.

Bug Fixes

• Images pasted or read from GIF, BMP or TIFF files are now automatically converted so they work with image generation.
• Queue panel now shows action buttons on hover and the status bar displays a compact done/total task count.
• Hook matchers now correctly see the real MCP tool name instead of the internal dispatcher name.
• Copy now succeeds when running inside containers even when the terminal brand cannot be detected.
• Tool result previews no longer paint opaque panels in grok --minimal.
• grok wrap now correctly handles quoted strings and shell aliases.
• Text selection settings now correctly honor explicit keep_text_selection values even when legacy keys remain.
• Fixed a freeze that could occur when editing and sending the last message in the queue.
• Fixed a startup crash on minimal Linux systems lacking system CA certificates.

Performance

• Grep now stops early on broad searches, returning faster results with far less memory use.
• Idle CPU and memory usage after long sessions or resume is now dramatically lower.

0.2.83 — 2026-07-02

Features

• Critical announcements now appear in a top banner during active sessions with a hide command.
• Pasting the same text again next to a paste chip now expands the chip into editable text instead of duplicating it.
• Paste preview now shows a hint explaining how to expand the chip.

0.2.82 — 2026-07-02

Features

• Managed connectors links now include the team ID when opening from a team session.
• AGENTS.md files are now discovered and shown for workspace/hub sessions.
• Chat conversation titles from the gateway are now shown in the sidebar.
• New /effort slash command changes reasoning effort on the active model.
• Double-click a pasted text chip to expand it into editable text.

Bug Fixes

• Skill descriptions are now recovered correctly even when frontmatter YAML is malformed.
• [Esc] hint in /btw panels now stays visible even on narrow terminals.
• Background monitors now wake the agent on natural exit the same way bash tasks do.
• Long option labels in question prompts are now always visible instead of disappearing when unfocused.
• Pasted text preview now appears immediately after inserting a paste chip.
• Hex color codes now render as colored dots with no extra space.
• Pressing voice on the welcome screen now starts a new session.

0.2.81 — 2026-07-01

Features

• Chat sessions no longer send workspace binding hints that belong to the backend.
• New stream transforms let hosts hide, unwrap, or rewrite tool calls for display without affecting agent transcripts.
• cancel() now accepts a timeout so a stuck turn cannot hang the session forever.
• Run tool blocks now show the model's description as the main title when provided.
• Hex color codes in prose now render as colored dots on truecolor terminals.
• New setting "Show thinking blocks" controls whether agent reasoning is visible in the scrollback.
• Spinners now show the description or short command of the task being waited on when available.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sessions that remained stuck on the thinking indicator after the model finished responding.
• Mermaid diagrams now correctly display angle brackets and symbols instead of literal HTML entities in labels.
• Recap requests no longer trigger context-length 400 errors on long conversations.

Performance

• Grep searches now time out after 20 seconds by default (60s on WSL) instead of always waiting 60s.

0.2.80 — 2026-07-01

Features

• Command timeouts can now be configured per-session with a foreground-only ceiling.
• Background tasks and TODO lists now survive compaction and remain visible to the model.
• Voice dictation STT feature: uses Ctrl+Space or F8, with optional hold-to-talk on supported terminals.
• Contextual hints can now be toggled individually for undo, plan mode, and image input.

Bug Fixes

• Subagent dialogs now reliably show full transcripts on open and reopen.
• Recap blocks now copy only the summary body, not the header label.
• Vim navigation keys now type into dashboard prompts; modals properly handle Esc/Left.

Performance

• Network connections are now more resilient to proxy/LB drops.

0.2.79 — 2026-06-30

Features

• Contextual hints now show shortcuts like plan mode or clipboard paste when relevant.
• Graceful shutdowns now allow interrupted turns to resume with a configurable pause budget.
• Grok.com chat sessions now integrate fully with the gateway bridge for model catalog and resume.

Bug Fixes

• Question prompts now time out after 6 minutes instead of blocking forever.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during conversation integrity repairs while a turn was active.

Performance

• Compaction can now run part of its work in the background before it blocks the session.

0.2.78 — 2026-06-30

Features

• Chat sessions show the grok.com model catalog in the picker.

Bug Fixes

• Tabs pasted into the prompt now align correctly with proper cursor positioning.
• Pasting images into dashboard peek replies now works and survives turn cancellation.
• Links in /btw panels are now clickable and highlight on hover.
• Prompt history is now saved even on fast Ctrl+C quit.
• Stuck scrollback text selection can now be cleared with Esc or any non-drag input.
• LaTeX math now renders inside markdown tables in the TUI.
• Background shell commands started by the agent are now cleaned up when the CLI exits.

Performance

• grok update downloads have a longer timeout.

0.2.77 — 2026-06-30

Features

• Pasting images from the local clipboard now works when running commands through grok wrap.
• Turn status spinner now shows what the agent is waiting on (response, subagent, task output, etc.).
• Double-click word selection is now a discoverable option in the Text selection setting and stays in sync with highlight behavior.

Bug Fixes

• Credit limit errors now show clearer upgrade or buy-credits messaging based on billing type.

0.2.76 — 2026-06-30

Features

• Auto permission mode is now added to the top of Shift+Tab cycles and enabled by default in settings.
• grok agent stdio now checks for updates in the background like other modes.

Performance

• Idle sessions no longer send repeated empty frames to the terminal, reducing CPU usage in the terminal emulator.

0.2.75 — 2026-06-29

Features

• Prompt history (Up arrow / Ctrl+R) now shows only the current session's prompts, with the newest selected at the bottom.

0.2.74 — 2026-06-29

Features

• Esc now cancels a running turn immediately; double-Esc clears prompt or opens rewind when idle.
• grok wrap now shows copy success over SSH and suggests native drag-select when paste fails.

Bug Fixes

• Clipboard copy now succeeds reliably on Wayland and KDE desktops instead of showing false positives.

0.2.73 — 2026-06-28

Features

• Keep text selection highlight setting added so drag selections stay visible until dismissed.

Bug Fixes

• Doubled lines after tab switches or focus changes in tmux or editor terminals are now healed.
• Clipboard copy now only shows success when the pasteboard actually received the text via a trusted path.

0.2.72 — 2026-06-28

Bug Fixes

• No longer triggers browser login at startup when an API key is already configured for inference.

0.2.71 — 2026-06-27

Bug Fixes

• Fixed grok agent stdio hangs on Windows when used with persistent clients such as VS Code.

0.2.70 — 2026-06-27

Breaking Changes

• Added grok wrap to run any command with local clipboard support.

Features

• Ctrl+4 now toggles the prompt queue on local macOS VS Code terminals.

Bug Fixes

• Session recaps (/recap and return-from-away) now show the full summary instead of being cut off mid-sentence.
• Vim mode now focuses the prompt when you press / on a brand-new empty session.
• Fixed grok agent stdio startup hangs on Windows when used with persistent clients such as VS Code or grok-desktop.
• /mcps list no longer shows stale disabled entries when managed gateway tools are enabled.
• Mermaid diagrams opened via [Open Image] now render at higher resolution instead of terminal size.
• Pressing r in scrollback no longer accidentally rewinds the session.
• Shortcuts cheatsheet now shows Ctrl+X on terminals that cannot deliver Ctrl+.
• Folder trust prompts no longer re-appear for every standalone worktree clone.
• Reasoning effort no longer silently resets from a user-chosen value after catalog refreshes.
• Fixed clipboard copy inside editor terminals nested in tmux by emitting plain OSC 52.

0.2.69 — 2026-06-26

Features

• The agent dashboard now shows each agent's model and mode in the peek panel, lets you cycle modes with Shift+Tab, collapses the Inactive section by default, and hides older idle agents behind a "N more" row.
• Tool usage cards for search, directory listing, file deletion and glob now render as distinct typed cards instead of generic MCP entries.
• The keyboard shortcuts help now shows richer descriptions and correctly scrolls wrapped text in the detail view.
• You can now pass --json-schema to grok -p and receive a validated JSON object instead of free text.
• Ctrl+L now interjects mid-turn in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Zed terminals.

Bug Fixes

• Local plugins installed from your home directory are now automatically refreshed when you start a session, so new agents or skills added to the source appear immediately.
• The /context command now reports the same number of tool definitions that are actually sent to the model.
• In vim mode the agent dashboard peek no longer steals keyboard focus from the list, so j and k keep moving between agents.
• /sessions on the agent dashboard no longer freezes the interface.
• Dashboard now focuses the overview list immediately when agents exist.

0.2.68 — 2026-06-26

Features

• MCP servers from host integrations can now be added, replaced, or removed without restarting the session.
• Agent-run terminal commands now set GROK_AGENT=1 so host tools can tell them apart from interactive shells.

Bug Fixes

• Attached images are now saved to real disk paths so the model can read them in any terminal.
• /resume now selects the correct model when a saved model name is ambiguous.
• Slash and completion menus no longer crash if the terminal is resized while open.

0.2.67 — 2026-06-25

Features

• Added --json-schema flag for headless mode to constrain model output to a supplied JSON Schema.
• Idle detection can now ignore background tasks when the env flag is set (off by default).

Bug Fixes

• Preview panes no longer hibernate while actively viewed or polled.
• Manual /rename now persists correctly and appears in /session-info even after auto title generation or resume.

Performance

• Find and grep now transparently use faster bfs and ugrep binaries when present in the harness.

0.2.66 — 2026-06-25

Features

• Custom sandbox profiles can now kernel-deny specific files and directories for reads/writes.
• Marketplace plugins in subdirectories of a git repo can now be installed and loaded correctly.
• Folder trust prompt now appears before starting a session when the feature is enabled.
• Preview panes no longer hibernate while actively viewed.
• Keyboard shortcuts help now expands inline for individual entries instead of only sections.
• Idle detection can now ignore background tasks when the env flag is set (off by default).
• Sandbox deny lists now accept glob patterns like /*.pem in addition to exact paths.

Bug Fixes

• Local MCP servers now auto-recover after disconnects or session expiry.
• OIDC sessions with XAI_API_KEY present no longer lose refresh on idle.
• Inline video previews now show an install command only when the package manager is on PATH.
• list_dir now reliably shows all immediate child directories even inside large monorepos.
• Clicking a model in the dashboard /model dropdown no longer opens the wrong session.
• Strikethrough now only applies to double tildes; single tildes render literally.
• Session cycling with Ctrl+[ / ] now switches from the session you are currently viewing.
• Prompt history (Up / Ctrl+R) now shows the complete recent list instead of a scrambled partial one.
• Authentication now correctly prefers the session method when both API key and cached token are present.
• xychart-beta diagrams with category labels now render correctly as images.

0.2.65 — 2026-06-24

Features

• grok -w --ref now creates worktrees based on the specified ref instead of HEAD.

Bug Fixes

• Unidentified Windows consoles are now treated as Windows Terminal for capability decisions.
• Esc in the dashboard input now moves focus to the list without clearing your typed draft.
• Copying a tool header now copies just the path or command, not the Read/Run label.
• Execute activity lines and headers no longer repeat a redundant cd into the session directory.
• Inline video previews now show an install hint instead of a spinner when ffmpeg is missing.

Performance

• Headless and stdio sessions no longer start unnecessary filesystem watchers, saving CPU and IO.
• Scrolling feels more responsive in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf integrated terminals.

0.2.64 — 2026-06-24

Features

• Dashboard now displays the current directory and branch; click or press Ctrl+L to change location, or Ctrl+W to dispatch new agents into fresh git worktrees.
• /recap now appears as a collapsible tool-style block with a loading spinner while generating.

Bug Fixes

• Dashboard arrow keys open agent details and exit overlays; closing an agent now selects the neighboring row.
• /usage command and credit warnings are now hidden for API-key authentication.
• MCP servers from your user config no longer appear labeled as project-scoped when running from your home directory.

0.2.63 — 2026-06-23

Bug Fixes

• Fixed hook matchers so pipe-list and alias patterns no longer silently over-match unrelated tool names.

0.2.62 — 2026-06-23

Features

• Hosts can now register hooks over the agent connection instead of only on-disk files.
• Prompt and /usage warnings now correctly reflect prepaid credits and auto top-up status.
• Desktop clients can now detect when a terminal is busy running a foreground process.
• TODO list remains visible to the model after compaction so it can continue working on pending items.
• /recap is now available by default — it generates a quick summary of your current session so you can catch up on what's happened so far.

Bug Fixes

• MCP server connections no longer time out during slow cold starts of stdio servers that download dependencies.
• File paths containing spaces (e.g. macOS app bundles) are now correctly turned into clickable hyperlinks in the terminal.
• Resume now correctly picks the most recently active session instead of one that only had metadata updates.
• /goal slash command now appears in the menu on the welcome screen before any prompt is sent when the feature is enabled.
• Session picker no longer shows a stale row highlight when keyboard focus moves to the search bar.
• Usage percentages in /usage and warnings now match backend flooring and show pay-as-you-go limits when applicable.
• Team accounts can now list sessions after re-login; previously returned 403 on conversations API.

0.2.61 — 2026-06-22

Features

• Closing a terminal tab with a running process now shows a confirmation dialog instead of killing it immediately.
• /usage now shows prepaid credits balance and auto top-up status.
• Clipboard copy on Wayland now also tries wl-copy; per-leg outcomes are now logged for diagnostics.
• Goal mode toggles and limits can now be set in config.toml under the [features] table.
• All /goal options (toggles, limits, role models) are now configurable together in a [goal] table.
• Clipboard copies from VS Code over SSH now warn when non-ASCII text may be garbled.

Bug Fixes

• Focus reports no longer leak as literal text when split across reads over SSH.
• --disable-web-search now honored in grok -p and grok agent; auxiliary model routing respects catalog overrides.
• Focus events now fire correctly for SSH-split focus reports.
• Boolean tool flags now accept "true"/"false"/"yes"/"no"/1/0 strings and numbers in addition to native booleans.
• Session last-active timestamps and message counts no longer regress under concurrent writers.
• iTerm2 now always uses text/metadata image fallback instead of broken OSC 1337 overlays.
• Model switches no longer leave the prompt queue stuck after a reconnect.
• Closing a terminal tab with a running process no longer shows a confirmation dialog.
• Custom agent profiles now correctly use the harness required by their pinned model.
• Subagents under custom profiles now adopt the correct harness from the parent's model.
• Changelog and release-notes modals now scroll with the mouse wheel and arrow keys.

0.2.60 — 2026-06-21

Features

• /resume now shows sessions from your current working directory's repo at the top of the list.
• Too-wide Mermaid diagrams now show a hint below the fallback box pointing to the Open Image button.
• Cancel behavior for running subagents can now be set to always stop or always continue in config.toml.

Bug Fixes

• Compaction no longer hangs indefinitely when the summarizer stream stalls after the server has finished.
• Slash command completion now shows consistent suggestions and remembers recently used commands.
• Queued prompts now reappear reliably after deleting the last item and re-queuing.
• Headless sessions no longer produce authentication error noise from unauthenticated MCP servers.
• Mermaid flowchart labels with long identifiers are now kept whole instead of being cut mid-word.
• Cmd+Backspace now deletes only from the cursor to the start of the line instead of clearing the whole prompt.
• Inline Mermaid previews now break long identifiers at word boundaries instead of mid-segment.
• Signed git commits no longer corrupt the TUI by letting pinentry draw over the screen.
• Arrow keys now move the prompt cursor or open history while a /btw answer panel is visible.
• Long option descriptions in question prompts now expand fully when the row is focused.

Performance

• Large MCP tool results are now truncated inline and saved to disk to avoid unnecessary context compaction.

0.2.59 — 2026-06-19

Bug Fixes

• Session recaps no longer display doubled labels and manual recap now correctly suppresses the next automatic recap.

0.2.58 — 2026-06-19

Bug Fixes

• Terminal command output files are now capped at 5 GB during execution and truncated to 64 MB after the process exits.
• Interjection messages now display the actual user text instead of a generic header.
• The legacy agent command is now kept in sync with grok after running grok update.
• Headless (grok -p) runs now wait for background tasks and subagents to finish before exiting.

0.2.57

Features

• Improved resilience to network blips during long responses by resuming instead of failing the turn.
• grok plugin install <name> now resolves plugins from registered marketplaces instead of only local paths.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cases where long-running conversation compaction could hang indefinitely.
• Notification hooks now fire only for real user-attention events and no longer trigger constantly during tool use.
• Fixed literal display of HTML entities such as < and > in responses and tool output.
• Typing [ in the pager prompt no longer appears delayed.
• Copy now tries all available Linux clipboard tools so paste works reliably in more terminals.

0.2.56

Features

• resume_from now continues a finished sub-agent in place instead of forking a new conversation.
• grok sessions delete command now lets you permanently remove a session from the CLI.

Bug Fixes

• MCP server connections no longer get torn down during rapid config reloads.
• Stale leader processes are now cleaned up when leader mode is disabled via config or remote settings.
• Sandbox profile is now preserved when resuming sessions so commands continue to work as before.
• list_dir now shows more relevant files when a large directory appears early in alphabetical order.
• Cancel button in turn status always shows [stop]; queue pane highlight now follows theme changes.
• grok quit no longer hangs when background git or network tasks are slow.
• The token count shown after auto-compaction now matches the context bar exactly.
• The git branch icon now renders correctly in iTerm2 without a Nerd Font.
• list_dir now gives clearer guidance when a directory is too large, using the actual tool names available in your session.
• Ctrl+Enter now sends the prompt when the agent is idle (same behavior as Enter).
• resume_from now correctly continues a sub-agent in the same working directory it was using before.
• Files with non-ASCII names (e.g. Chinese) no longer crash the session when plan mode checks for markdown.
• Session lists (welcome screen, /resume, grok sessions list) are now sorted by the same activity time shown in the UI.
• Fixed bash tool failures when models send numeric arguments such as timeout as JSON strings instead of numbers.
• Prevented crashes during bash command output streaming when building progress frames.
• Disabled inline image rendering on iTerm2 terminals where scrollback overlays cannot be supported.

Performance

• Fast tools like grep now show as completed immediately even when other tools in the same round are still running.
• Long sessions that display inline images no longer grow to multi-GB memory usage.

0.2.55

Features

• Added option to fully disable the hunk tracker via --hunk-tracker-mode, GROK_HUNK_TRACKER, or config.

Bug Fixes

• Windows install scripts now download and run cleanly via irm | iex without spurious BOM errors.
• Tables and wide content no longer leave stray characters next to timestamps in the scrollback.
• Mermaid diagrams now render node labels cleanly without HTML tags or raw markdown syntax.
• MCP servers using HTTP now recover automatically after temporary connection drops instead of becoming permanently unavailable.
• Very long sessions can now scroll all the way to the bottom of the conversation history.

0.2.54

Features

• Rewind now works end-to-end across conversation and file state with proper CAS handling.

Bug Fixes

• Git branch icons now render correctly on Windows without Nerd Fonts.
• Mermaid diagrams now render inline without the model suggesting external viewers.
• MCP connection errors now show the actual failure reason to the model.
• MCP servers with noisy stdout no longer disconnect unexpectedly.
• Usage warnings now always display "Usage left: N%" instead of varying between "Free credits left" and "Credits left".
• Window title no longer flashes or oscillates during permission prompts while the terminal window is focused.

Performance

• Fixed pager freezes and 100% CPU usage when rendering very long agent reasoning outputs with thousands of styled spans.

0.2.53

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

0.2.52

Features

• Tool auto-approval (YOLO) 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.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed oversized session replay logs that prevented large sessions from loading.
• MCP server connections no longer flood reconnects on repeated stream errors.
• ZDR and team upload flags are now populated immediately on login instead of only after background refresh.
• 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.

Performance

• Compaction now reuses cached prompt prefix instead of full prefill.

0.2.51

Breaking Changes

• 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.

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

Performance

• Large code blocks inside lists no longer cause multi-second UI stalls while streaming responses.

0.2.50

Features

• Mermaid flowcharts now render edge crossings clearly instead of fusing unrelated connections.

Bug Fixes

• Sequence diagrams with activate, autonumber, par, and more now render instead of showing parse errors.
• MCP servers menu and slash commands now work when starting grok outside a project directory.
• Ctrl+W in the prompt now deletes whole words like bash instead of stopping at punctuation.
• Login no longer quits when an authentication code contains the letter q.

0.2.49

Features

• 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.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.47

Features

• stateDiagram Mermaid blocks now render as diagrams instead of source fallback.

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.46

Features

• Mermaid flowcharts now render with fewer avoidable edge crossings.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• Fixed "unknown session id" errors after the leader process crashed or was killed.
• Fixed repeated auto-compaction attempts when the session is credit-blocked or auth is non-refreshable.

Performance

• Parallel tool calls on the same path (multiple greps etc.) now execute concurrently.

0.2.45

Features

• Mermaid diagrams now render to images when you click Open in a code block (on by default).

Bug Fixes

• 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.

0.2.44

Features

• K/J keys now snap the viewport to the top of previous or next assistant responses.
• J/K (vim mode) now navigate between assistant responses in scrollback.
• sequenceDiagram mermaid blocks now render as Unicode lifeline diagrams instead of source fallback.

Bug Fixes

• 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.
• Project MCP config touches no longer trigger repeated reload storms.

Performance

• Inference requests recover faster from silent engine stalls instead of waiting the full idle timeout.

0.2.43

Bug Fixes

• ask_user_question tool can now be enabled in allowlists without requiring plan-mode tools.
• Shift+Tab mode cycling (Normal → Plan → Auto-Approve) works again in the agent view.
• Ctrl+C now cancels a blocking grok update cleanly instead of leaving an orphaned download repainting the terminal.

0.2.42

Bug Fixes

• ask_user_question tool can now be enabled in allowlists without requiring plan-mode tools.
• MCP servers provided at session start now persist across config hot-reloads.

0.2.41

Features

• Compaction completion message now shows the before → after token reduction instead of only the final count.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed token count after compaction so the displayed number no longer jumps back up on the next model response.
• Fixed plugin skill loading when a manifest lists skill directories directly instead of a parent skills/ folder.

Performance

• Fixed memory context injection on resume so the prompt prefix stays byte-stable and KV cache is preserved.

0.2.40

Features

• grok --debug now produces per-session log files under ~/.grok/debug/ even with a leader process.

Bug Fixes

• Doom-loop warnings now correctly describe cycles and distinct edit failures instead of claiming identical arguments.
• Model list changes from config or cache now appear in already-connected TUI and IDE clients without restart.

0.2.39

Features

• run_terminal_cmd can stream live stdout/stderr chunks when the workspace flag is enabled.
• /session-info now displays the current turn index.
• Server-synced and bundled skills are now discovered from launcher-injected directories.
• Background & operator is now allowed by default in terminal commands.

Bug Fixes

• Resumed subagents no longer loop forever during auto-compaction on large context windows.
• Background task descriptions and & rejection messages now correctly name the real parameters.
• Doom-loop detection no longer falsely triggers on distinct failing tool calls.

0.2.38

Features

• Watching status line now appears when background monitors, loops, or subagents can wake the agent.

Bug Fixes

• Default model selection now correctly chooses the intended entry when multiple models share a slug.
• Minor bug fixes

0.2.37

Features

• MCP tool result queries now list only command-line tools actually present on your system.
• grok update now restarts any older running leader so all clients get the new binary.
• Long-running bash commands that hit the timeout are now moved to the background by default instead of killed.

Bug Fixes

• Subagents now correctly receive web_search and x_search tools from the parent session.

0.2.36

Features

• Large MCP tool results are now saved with the correct extension and the model receives better hints for querying them.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed false-positive doom-loop terminations when many parallel tool calls fail together in one batch.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during auto-compaction when resuming a session containing reasoning content.

0.2.35

0.2.34

Features

• grok login now defaults to device code flow, which works reliably in SSH, WSL, VPN, and browser-restricted environments.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a hang during auth refresh.

0.2.33

Bug Fixes

• Fixed duplicate turn output when attaching a second client to an active leader session.
• Fixed Send now on queued prompts.

0.2.32

Features

• Slash commands from project plugins now appear correctly in every open conversation after a plugin change.

Bug Fixes

• Prompts submitted rapidly now stay in correct submission order in the queue.

Performance

• Grep searches on large repositories are now substantially faster and no longer hit the 60-second timeout.

0.2.31

Bug Fixes

• Marketplace skills without proper descriptions are now hidden from listings instead of flooding the model with tables.
• Prompts submitted rapidly now stay in correct submission order in the queue.

Performance

• Grep searches on large repositories are now substantially faster and no longer hit the 60-second timeout.

0.2.30

Features

• A new plugin install suggestion appears above the prompt when you type a known marketplace plugin name or domain.

Bug Fixes

• Trace uploads and remote session restores now succeed with a deployment key and no browser login.
• Resumed sessions no longer pad the sticky prompt with empty rows; cancelling a turn now keeps the rest of the prompt queue intact.
• Cancelling a running prompt no longer leaves the interface stuck on the cancelling spinner.

0.2.29

Bug Fixes

• /rewind before a compaction boundary no longer leaves later prompts in context.

Performance

• Resuming large sessions is now substantially faster with no data loss.

0.2.28

Bug Fixes

• Images read via read_file are now downscaled even when small in bytes but large in pixels.

0.2.27

Features

• Image and video generation tools now include the saved filename and session folder in their output.

Bug Fixes

• Monitor output no longer appears as raw XML in the conversation view during leader sessions.
• Windows commands containing & are no longer incorrectly rejected by run_terminal_cmd.
• Python -c save-to-file reminder now suggests correct commands on Windows.

0.2.26

Bug Fixes

• Large pasted content no longer triggers context-window errors or breaks compaction and memory flush.
• API-key users can now run grok agent --leader without forced interactive login or timeouts.
• Compaction no longer retries endlessly on credit, size, or auth failures; shows a clear message instead.
• Windows PowerShell and cmd.exe no longer falsely reject commands containing &.
• web_fetch no longer crashes the CLI on pages whose root element matches a cleaning selector.

0.2.25

Bug Fixes

• Session titles now generate reliably even for very long initial messages.

0.2.24

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes

0.2.23

Features

• Leader sessions can now be viewed and controlled from multiple clients with a live dashboard.
• Sessions can now be deleted directly from the /resume history picker.

Bug Fixes

• MCP plugin servers with bundled OAuth client IDs now authenticate correctly.

0.2.22

Bug Fixes

• Authentication errors with static API keys now surface a clear error instead of hanging the turn.

0.2.21

Features

• allowed_models in config.toml now restricts which models appear in the picker and /model command.

Bug Fixes

• Code navigation now returns correct results for secondary project windows with different working directories.

0.2.20

Bug Fixes

• MCP servers declared in both a plugin's .mcp.json and plugin.json are now registered instead of dropped.
• Git operations now correctly target the repository for each session's working directory.

0.2.19

Features

• Monitors now appear labeled in background-task reminders after compaction and can be terminated by name.

Bug Fixes

• Reading images with text-only models no longer triggers repeated 400 errors that brick the session.

0.2.18

Features

• Official xAI plugin marketplace now appears automatically in the Marketplace tab on first launch.
• Image and video generation now use api.x.ai directly for all users.
• New image-to-video and reference-to-video tools are now available for generating videos from images.
• New imagine skill provides prompt-craft and workflow guidance for image generation and editing tools.

Bug Fixes

• image_edit now correctly resolves pasted or attached images referenced as [Image #N].
• Background subagent completions are no longer reported twice when the agent is idle.
• Subagents now use the same model as the parent session by default.

0.2.17

Features

• Image and video generation tools now emit structured paths so the pager renders media without regex scraping.
• Compaction summaries now use a more detailed structure that improves recovery after context reset.
• image_gen can now be enabled via the harness model using [features] in config.toml or the GROK_IMAGE_GEN_HARNESS env var.
• Improved config refresh on new sessions from the shell.

Bug Fixes

• --restore-code no longer detaches the source repository when resuming a forked-worktree session from a different directory.
• Read tool string coercion bug fixes.
• ICO images pasted or read from disk are now automatically converted to PNG before being sent to the model.

0.2.16

Features

• New segments compaction mode writes per-segment markdown files that the model can read to recover pre-compaction detail.
• Claude and Cursor compatibility scanning (skills, rules, AGENTS.md) can now be toggled individually via env vars or config.toml.
• grok inspect now shows the resolved on/off state and source for every Claude/Cursor compatibility toggle.
• Cursor MCP servers and hooks are now discovered and can be disabled independently via GROK_CURSOR_MCPS_ENABLED / GROK_CURSOR_HOOKS_ENABLED.

Bug Fixes

• Streaming tool output (bash/write_file) now renders completely in the pager instead of only the latest chunk.
• Streaming bash tool output now appears correctly in the pager scrollback.
• Routing a native tool (e.g. scheduler_create) through use_tool now gives a clear corrective error instead of an unrecoverable loop.
• "Starting session..." spinner no longer gets stuck when zero MCP servers are configured.
• Subagents now use the correct harness after switching models mid-session.
• Fixed long startup delays when an external auth provider binary hangs or fails.
• Subagent conversations no longer receive unrelated monitor events or background task completions from the parent.
• The /loop command now accepts natural-language intervals instead of always defaulting to 10 minutes.
• Fixed blank output on completed bash or code-execution cards after shell restart or reconnect.

Performance

• Large pasted images no longer bust the prompt cache or exceed the 50 MiB request limit.

0.2.15

Features

• Permission prompts now remember your last choice across tools and let you configure the first-prompt default in config.toml.

0.2.14

Features

• Generated images and videos can now be opened directly from the terminal UI via buttons or clicks.
• Background tasks panel now groups items, supports collapsible sections, and has clearer styling for monitors and loops.

Bug Fixes

• Session titles are now generated reliably using a fixed default model.
• --permission-mode now correctly overrides the permission_mode setting from config.toml when launching sessions.

0.2.13

Bug Fixes

• Miscellaneous bug fixes

0.2.12

Features

• Computer connection status now shows a connecting pill during terminal session initialization.
• /check and subagents now read and follow full AGENTS.md rules from the repo.

Bug Fixes

• --max-turns now correctly counts tool-use cycles instead of total messages.
• @-mention file search now works again for local agent sessions.
• Rendered images, files, and citations now replay correctly in chunk-mode history.
• /context now displays the correct auto-compact threshold for the active model instead of always 85%.
• Model responses are no longer silently dropped when the gateway emits legacy channel values.
• Prompt responses no longer resolve before the turn's final output chunks reach the client.

0.2.11

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes

0.2.10

Features

• /check has been renamed to /check-work; old command continues to work during transition.

Bug Fixes

• Images smaller than 8×8 pixels are now rejected with a clear message instead of producing blocky results.

0.2.9

Features

• Added --device-code as alias for device authentication and improved headless auth error messages.

0.2.8

Features

• New /login slash command lets you re-authenticate from within a session without quitting.
• Compaction summaries now include the full transcript path so the model can reference prior details.
• Cursor skills and rules are now discovered alongside Grok and Claude directories.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed monitor tool schema to show the correct 10-hour default timeout.
• Fixed a panic that could occur when installing marketplace plugins.

0.2.7

Features

• Image generation and image editing can now be toggled independently via [features] in config.toml.

Bug Fixes

• Background tasks started inside subagents now continue running after the subagent session ends.

0.2.6

Bug Fixes

• Background tasks started inside subagents now continue running after the subagent session ends.
• Image description now reliably uses the grok-build model instead of falling back to the active session model.

0.2.5

Bug Fixes

• Drag-and-drop and pasting images or files now works correctly on Windows.

0.2.4

Features

• image_gen now uses the higher-quality grok-imagine-image-quality model.

Bug Fixes

• read_file now correctly passes embedded base64 images to the model as vision tokens instead of truncated fragments.

0.2.3

Features

• Memory system: /remember command, note modal with raw/enhanced preview, x.ai/memory/rewrite ACP extension, Ctrl+F fullscreen toggle for /memory modal.
• Agent configuration: /config-agents modal with agents, personas, and defaults.
• Goal classifier: end-to-end goal tracking with subagent-powered classification.

0.2.2

0.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Pasting or dropping images now succeeds for truncated, CRC-corrupt, or tiny files instead of failing silently.

0.2.0

Performance

• Large chat sessions now use substantially less memory and run faster during forks, rewinds, and compaction.