Grok Build v0.2.93 Changelog

This update is all about making your workflow smoother, safer, and more predictable. It is especially important for users who rely on keyboard shortcuts, copy data into spreadsheets, or want tighter security control over how the AI interacts with external tools and files.

What's new

• Detailed Tool Permissions: When the AI wants to use an external tool (using a system called MCP, which connects the AI to other apps), the permission prompt will now show you the exact details and data (arguments) it plans to use. This lets you double-check its work before giving the green light.
• Smart Table Copying: When you highlight text inside a formatted table, the app now lets you select neat, rectangular blocks of cells. When you copy them, they are saved as TSV (Tab-Separated Values), meaning you can paste them perfectly into Google Sheets or Excel.

Improvements

• Quick Jump to Plan Mode: When a tip about "Plan mode" pops up on your screen, you can now press Shift+Tab to jump straight into it.
• Clickable Extension Link: The "Managed by grok.com" link in the extensions menu is now underlined and fully clickable.

Fixes

• Startup Crash Squashed: Fixed a bug where the app would crash immediately after launching on some computers. This was caused by the "telemetry exporter," which is the background system that sends anonymous usage data to the developers.
• Cleaner Minimal Mode: Using the --minimal command-line option now perfectly aligns your typing prompt, status bar, and messages to the left side of the screen so it looks neat.
• Better Plugin Organization: The /plugins command will no longer show uninstalled plugins from other marketplaces, and it now groups your active plugins by where they actually came from.
• No More Ghost Lines: When the app successfully shrinks an image (compression), it will no longer leave an annoying, permanent line of text in your chat history.
• Quieter Subagents: If you use the --no-ask-user setting to stop the AI from interrupting you with questions, this setting now successfully applies to "subagents" (smaller helper AIs running in the background) as well.

Breaking changes

• Escape Key Behavior Changed: Pressing the Esc key will no longer cancel a running task; you must use Ctrl+C to stop it instead. However, pressing Escape twice to "rewind" (go back to a previous step) now works even when your cursor is focused on older messages.