Grok Build v0.2.109 Changelog

This update is all about giving you more control and better visibility into what the AI is doing. It’s especially great if you like to keep an eye on your usage costs or if you use advanced features like background tasks and voice dictation.

What's new

• Cost tracking: The /usage command now shows exactly how many tokens (the chunks of text the AI reads) you've used and what it costs for your current chat.
• SSH helper: There's a new command to easily install an "SSH wrapper." This is a shortcut that makes connecting to remote computers over a secure network connection much smoother.
• Shared settings: If you're running the system for others, you can now share connection settings across multiple custom AI models to save time.
• Maximum reasoning: The AI's "thinking effort" has a new max level. When an AI model supports it, it will think even harder than the previous highest setting to solve tough problems.
• Combined questions: If you ask several follow-up questions while the AI is busy, a new setting can bundle them all into one single question so the AI can answer them together.
• Main health check: The /doctor command is now the go-to tool to check if your terminal, clipboard, and keyboard are set up correctly.
• Full file reading: When looking inside special "skills" folders, the AI can now read entire Markdown files without cutting them off.

Improvements

• Clearer status messages: When the AI is working on things in the background, the status bar now clearly says "1 subagent still running" instead of using confusing wording like "watching."
• Better voice feedback: If you try to use voice typing and it doesn't work, the system now tells you exactly why. It will specify if your microphone didn't pick up any sound (usually a permissions issue) or if you just didn't talk.

Fixes

• Fixed messy transcripts: Fixed a glitch where the phrase "Worked for" would pile up over and over in the chat log when background tasks were paused.
• Fixed overlapping loops: Fixed a bug where background loops (tasks that run over and over) would accidentally trip over each other if smaller background "helper" bots were still working.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.