Three Grok Build updates in a single day: v1.0.19 → v1.0.20 → v1.0.21
And the latest one keeps polishing the experience......permission modes now stay visible through plan mode, sessions open instantly when you start typing or pasting, and crowded terminal layouts behave properly
The release cadence here is getting ridiculous again
Release Notes: v1.0.21
Bug Fixes:
• Permission mode (auto / always-approve) now stays visible when the agent enters plan mode and is restored on exit.
• Typing, pasting, or pressing Shift+Tab on the welcome screen now immediately opens the session instead of creating a duplicate one.
• Dock sections, queue body, and reveal rows now stay within their documented height rules even on crowded terminals.
Grok Build just got way better at keeping complex agent work moving without getting in your way
Scheduled loops now run fully in the background, resumed sessions remember active loops, subagents and workflows, headless runs can launch inside isolated git worktrees, and MCP-heavy sessions start responding faster
Release Notes: v1.0.19
Breaking Changes:
• Scheduled /loop tasks always run in the background; they no longer inject turns into your conversation.
Features:
• New terminal theme option makes backgrounds transparent so the terminal's own colors show through.
• MCP servers blocked by organization policy now show clear messages and are refused before any config change.
• Session resume now tells the model what loops, subagents, and workflows were still running.
• Dashboard now shows newly dispatched sessions immediately instead of waiting for the store.
• Headless sessions (`grok -p`) now support the `--worktree` flag to run in a separate git worktree.
• Dashboard now says 'Open session' instead of 'Add session' for the session picker button.
• Multi-line bash commands now render with proper wrapping and highlighting when opening the block viewer.
• /usage now works from the dashboard and shows account allowance when no session is active.
Bug Fixes:
• Fixed mid-turn UI freezes when the terminal stops reading output.
• Fixed crashes that occurred when the terminal pane was closed while grok was exiting.
• MCP server list in minimal mode now correctly shows policy-blocked servers.
• URLs that wrap across multiple lines inside quotes or lists are now fully clickable.
• The welcome screen composer now grows taller when you paste multi-line text.
• Enterprise policy files are no longer deleted on startup when your team login is stored at a custom `GROK_AUTH_PATH`.
• /feedback now drops unsupported images with a notice (matching the modal) and never loses your report text on save errors.
• Feedback drafts keep their paragraph breaks when updated, and the modal no longer switches tabs unexpectedly.
• Turn summary lines no longer lose their spacing after background tasks finish.
• Thinking blocks no longer stay expanded after switching between fullscreen and minimal modes.
Performance:
• First prompt after login is faster when MCP servers are configured; they connect in the background.