xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)
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xAI’s coding agent CLI/TUI (Grok Build) for complex engineering work — fullscreen terminal UI, Plan Mode, subagents, powered by Grok models. Install: curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash. Open source: xai-org/grok-build. Official changelog at x.ai/build/changelog (may bot-block scrapers).
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Changes:
- Report invalid MCP server config instead of failing startup
- Keep completed terminal output when the gateway connection is lost
- Show a duration-only detail view for single-task task output
- Don't let a stale registry turn counter hide local sessions
- Raise the file-descriptor soft limit on Linux and log effective limits at startup
- Stop aborting when HTTP client construction fails
- Make session thread and runtime spawn failures recoverable
- Fix main-prompt paste parity in the question freeform input
- Fire SessionEnd hooks on /exit and headless quit
- Embed the deployment-config signing public key
- Repaint paste-chip background on inline panel inputs
- Security: prevent acceptEdits from auto-approving agent writes into the always-trusted global hook root
- Fix stacked "Worked for" markers so parks render as status and turns close with exactly one marker
- Parse hooks from config files
- Add a remote kill-switch for managed-config signature verification
- Security: fix workspace file-reference resolution bypassing workspace filesystem confinement
Source-Revision: d02693a856a54f1030695b36b91d276e96b30b23
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Changes:
- Refresh tool search when the managed MCP catalog is re-fetched
- Prevent duplicate leader process spawn and startup hang from stale leaders
- Document marketplaces, plugins, and organization controls
- Stamp session ID on image generation direct-to-API requests
- Fix auto mode blocked documentation
- Auto mode considers recent user intent
- Expose deploy archive, taken-down, limit, and in-progress reasons on the chat API
- Fail-closed auth refresh contract for shell clients
- Emit a chat-supplied per-session turn index in turn hooks
- Show bash mode chrome in minimal mode
- Add metrics for true-noop and stationarity stops
- Include voice interim text on prompt submit
- Silently end turn on true-noop thrash
- Quiet copy toast when clipboard delivery is confirmed
- Fix session fork truncating at the wrong prompt in rewound sessions
- Make the idle "still running" watcher cue clickable to open the tasks pane
- Default web search model to grok-4.5
- Let plugin subagents inherit parent MCP servers
- Gate no-op end-turn reminder on system reminders
- Add gateway bridge lifecycle telemetry
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Changes:
- Workspace server: report
/readyas failed with dwell on hub connect failure - Refresh OIDC token for the Grok agent in the shell
- ACP terminal output recorder
- Cross-platform provider auth commands in the shell
- Default
/resumeto Grok sessions with a hint for hidden external sessions - Resume sessions by title with
--resume - Limit app-builder archive size
- Data-driven tag labels for slash commands
- Doctor fixes for tmux
- Custom provider gateways and subprocess environment policy in the shell
/tutorial— opt-in onboarding tour of Grok Build- Soft and required CLI version checks in the shell
- Privacy banner env overrides survive live settings updates
- Add remote flag to override the image-edit model
- Return profile fields from auth info even when the access token is expired
- Add edit control on queued prompt rows
- Keep fail-closed policy when clearing orphans with no team
- Setting to disable the Ctrl+Space/F8 voice shortcut
- Pass
--rawto pw-record so Linux dictation works on older PipeWire - Validate git URLs when adding marketplace entries
- Stop shipping stale tool-doc parameter and tool names
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Changes:
- Non-blocking coding-data sharing upsell banner
- Consolidate remediation in Doctor
- Auto mode defers fail-closed gate asks to the classifier
- Coalesce marketplace list fetches
- Allow removing a marketplace source by name
- Contain hung git marketplace sources (timeouts, non-blocking refresh, unbrick modal)
- Label failed workspace RPCs with error_kind
- Drop redundant explicit tonic/prost deps from xai-grok-shell
- Report real exit codes for completed background shells
- Narrow the date-rollover reminder to date-bearing templates
- Wire toolOverrides through the session and agent
- Security: Bash(git:*) allowlist matches whole command chain by prefix
- Split prompt-trigger telemetry and record classifier provenance
- Raise connectors-manager timeout to 60s
- Auto classifier honors recorded approvals for repeat actions
- Apply doctor fixes in the TUI
- Auto-mode classifier timeouts prompt instead of silently denying
- Scope subagent completion drains to the owning session
- Add the toolOverrides wire types
- Set client_identifier=grok-agent-sdk
- Accept both spellings of the workspace-teleport kill switch
- Persist one-shot occurrence journal
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Changes:
- Shell: accept target response id on rewind execute
- Shell: stamp response id on chat user message chunks
- Worktree: optional rebuild and stale git registration cleanup in auto-GC
- Worktree: kind-aware auto-GC TTLs and config knobs
- Worktree: macOS process CWD scan and Unix PID liveness for GC guards
- Worktree: automatic throttled GC on startup (Linux age-based; non-Linux dead-only)
- Pager: add
[ui].combine_queued_promptsto batch queued follow-ups - Shell: stop overwriting user skills
- Tools: read markdown in
skills/directories untruncated /usageshows per-session token and dollar usage in the TUI- Security: prompt on environment-dumping
psvariants - Security: always-safe
kubectlno longer runs arbitrary kubeconfig credential plugins without permission - Tools: make scheduler deletion durable
- Shell: add relocation storage primitives
- Shell: give side model calls their own conversation ids
- Fix five workflow-runtime bugs (budget, pause, cancel, reconnect)
- Security: peel
env -S/--split-stringoperands in the Bash permission gate (managed deny/ask) - Pager: expose doctor in the TUI
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Changes:
- Gate session-lifecycle heap steady state with a dhat soak
- Unbreak merge lifecycle e2e after default model → grok-4.5
- Scan home-scope rules dirs at <root>/rules
- Complete text-input paste and terminal parity
- Gate project roles and personas
- Use canonical editing in dialogs
- Use canonical editing in search bars
- Reject ambiguous MCP tool IDs
- Harden Git operands for plugins
- Simplify queue drain API
- Pass RFC 9207 iss through MCP OAuth token exchange
- Show leader roster when local agents map is empty
- Use canonical editing in Persona views
- Remove marketplace default-skills auto-install and purge old installs
- Use canonical editing in extension forms
- Add canonical dashboard text editing
- Use canonical editing in settings
- Add /summarize as a /recap alias
- Restore previous agent when exiting dashboard
- Use tool_choice auto for compaction
- Settings toggle for snap-prompt-to-top on send
- Update default models to grok-4.5
- Source login shell once for local bash (env + alias/function snapshot)
- Template hardcoded param names in server-native tool descriptions
- Fix System-Reminder XML tag injection in CLAUDE.md via agents_md
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Changes:
- Classify clipboard delivery confidence
- Add durable session update append
- Scope the xAI session bearer to first-party memory embedding endpoints
- Persist subagent outputs to disk and bound long-lived agent state
- Add MiniSweAgent:bash for mini-swe-agent parity
- Revert taking local sessions off the persistent shell
- Contextual tip recommending grok wrap on SSH sessions
- Voice STT bearer from model BYOK env_key/api_key
- Define exact website policies for sandbox
- Gate unsafe shell environments
- Shared pin hoist; single require_sha gate for marketplace plugins
- Server-signed is-managed claim (closes sidecar-removal downgrade)
- Optional require_sha pin for remote plugin installs
- Show session title and last exchange in the exit resume hint
- Gate shell output redirects
- Warn when fail_closed is present but not a boolean
- Add canonical text editing core (ratatui-textarea)
- Keep execution state out of goal scratch
- Add acknowledged persistence primitives
- Inherit child network restrictions in sandbox
- Fail closed when hook matchers fail to recompile
- Add MCP setup preferences for plugin MCPs
- Gate sourced shell scripts
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Changes:
- grok-shell: request workspaces:read/write OAuth2 scopes
- security: fix SSRF bypass via HTTP redirect in hook runner
- fix(grok-build): enterprise STT WSS URL + API-key voice bearer
- Harden identity-change purge and sync-marker invariants
- sandbox + workspace-server: delete the legacy ready-file arm
- Show billing URL when browser cannot open
- fix(pager): show folder-trust UI in minimal mode
- fix(pager): drain task_backgrounded before no-wait headless exit
- grok-agent-sdk: stop SDK-spawned agents from staging self-updates they can never adopt
- Split settings_modal into directory module
- Delegate VS Code SSH file links
- grok-shell: release the workspace session binding when a session is removed
- keep skills reachable when their name collides with a client builtin
- Preserve semantic link targets
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