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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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Config files xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build) has changed

Config you own — hooks, permission rules, MCP servers, settings — that releases below state a change to. Counted from the release notes we track, newest change first. How a harness is layered.

permission rules2 changes · latest Jul 21, 2026 · 3af4d5d ↗
skills and plugins1 change · 3 releases touched it · latest Jul 21, 2026 · 3af4d5d ↗

Release signals

xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)7cfcb20Jul 18, 2026

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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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xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)98c3b24Jul 17, 2026

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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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xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)8adf901Jul 16, 2026

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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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xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)Sep 22, 2026

Use Grok 4.7 on the API

grok-4.7 , SpaceXSI's latest model, is available directly on the xAI API. · Drop it into your own agent loop, IDE integration, or coding tool.Primary source ↗
xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)Sep 8, 2026

Features

Status Line . · Live session context in a row at the bottom of the TUI. · Skills, Plugins & Marketplaces · Modes and CommandsPrimary source ↗
xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)Aug 21, 2026

Custom models

Grok supports any custom model. · Add it to your user-level config file, ~/.grok/config.toml (on Windows, %USERPROFILE%.grok\config.toml ): · Text · After updating ~/.grok/config.toml , use grok inspect to see what Grok discovered in the current directory, including config sources, instructions, skills, plugins, hooks, and MCP servers, then pick the model in headless mode or in the TUI: · Bash · You can also switch inside the TUI with /model <name> .Primary source ↗
xAI Grok CLI (Grok Build)Aug 21, 2026

Start an interactive session

Bash · On first launch, Grok opens a browser for authentication. · In non-browser environments, use an API key: · Bash · Useful first prompts: · TextPrimary source ↗

Polled sources

[docs-overview] xAI Build docs overview

Product page · last read Oct 24, 2026

https://docs.x.ai/build/overview

[product-page] Grok Build product page (may 403 bots)

Product page · not polled

https://x.ai/cli

[official-changelog] Grok Build Changelog (official — may 403 bots)

Product page · not polled

https://x.ai/build/changelog

[github-readme] grok-build README (not a changelog — its sections parsed as releases)

Changelog · not polled

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xai-org/grok-build/main/README.md

[github-commits] xai-org/grok-build commits

GitHub activity · last read Oct 24, 2026

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build