Grok Build v1.0.5 Changelog

This update is all about making the software more flexible for power users while making the everyday experience smoother and less confusing for everyone. If you use this tool to code or manage projects, you'll notice it feels more reliable and easier to control.

What's new

• Custom launch settings: You can now use special system settings (called environment variables) to change how the app starts up or restrict logins to specific teams, all without having to dig into the app's main config file.
• Right-to-left text support: If you speak Arabic or Persian, your text will now display in the correct reading order. You can switch this on in the /settings menu.
• Smarter chat titles: The app now figures out a good title for your chat much earlier in the conversation and keeps it stable. When you resume an old chat, it gives you a quick recap of what happened.
• Clearer loading messages: Instead of a vague spinning icon, the app now tells you exactly what it's doing, like "Writing file…" or "Writing edit…".
• Better hook alerts: If a "hook" (a background rule that stops certain actions) blocks you, the app now correctly says it was blocked by a hook, rather than blaming you.
• Safer file cleanup: The app automatically cleans up temporary working copies of your files (called "worktrees") to save space, but it has strict safety checks so it will never accidentally delete your only copy.
• Controlled media generation: When creating images or videos, the app now limits how many times it tries to generate them in one step so it doesn't overload the system.
• Adjustable thinking power: External programs connecting to Grok can now tell it exactly how much "reasoning effort" to use when starting a chat.

Improvements

• Clearer external tool loading: When using external tools (MCP), the loading text is now readable instead of showing messy, raw code while it waits for instructions to arrive.

Fixes

• Fixed broken tools: If your system temporarily lost access to a background file called /dev/null, your tools (like searching or listing files) used to break for the rest of your session. Now they keep working fine.
• Fixed Windows home directory: The app now correctly finds your main user folder on Windows, which fixes an issue where it couldn't find your saved skills.
• Fixed crash when piping: If you used the grok inspect command and sent its output to another command that closed early, Grok used to crash. It now handles this gracefully.
• Fixed cut-off replies: In "Minimal mode," if the app was still typing out a reply while also showing its "thinking" process, the reply used to get cut off. That's fixed now.