Grok Build v0.2.52
Grok Build v0.2.52 was released on .
Summary
Grok Build 0.2.52 now tracks tool approvals reliably across your entire workflow and renders database diagrams with full entity details directly in the terminal. You can also keep manually expanded sections stable as new content arrives, plus export metrics to your own monitor...
Release Context
- This was the 44th Grok Build release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 4 days after Grok Build v0.2.51 (June 11, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Devin Desktop v3.2.19 (June 18, 2026)
- Cursor v3.8 (June 18, 2026)
- Devin Desktop v3.2.23 (June 18, 2026)
- Claude Code v2.1.181 (June 17, 2026)
- Kiro CLI v2.8.0 (June 17, 2026)
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Release Notes
Grok Build 0.2.52
- Tool auto-approval state is now tracked end-to-end in server-side agent sessions
- ER diagrams now render as entity boxes with attributes and relationships in the TUI
- New "Respect manual folds" setting keeps hand-expanded blocks stable while content streams in
- Ctrl+X now stops running turns or closes sessions from inside the agent detail view
- Grok can now export usage metrics and events to your own OpenTelemetry collector when enabled
- WezTerm users now receive guidance when Shift+Enter fails because kitty keyboard protocol is disabled
- Long-running sessions now tell the model when the local calendar date changes past midnight
- Agent Dashboard now works without leader mode and shows local idle sessions from disk
- Fixed oversized session replay logs that prevented large sessions from loading
- MCP server connections no longer flood reconnects on repeated stream errors
- Mermaid PNG export now handles quoted cardinalities in class diagrams and readable ER rows on dark theme
- Skill catalog no longer shows duplicate "Use when:" labels and check-work skill now prompts the model to read its instructions
- Compaction now rejects overly-short summaries that would discard real conversation state
- Background tasks no longer emit spurious failure messages when a session is resumed
- Fixed Windows path handling so external tools and model prompts receive clean paths without \?\ prefixes
- Images and media no longer remain visible when switching from an agent view to the dashboard
- Clipboard paste (Ctrl+V) now works for images on pure Wayland sessions
- Modals such as /sessions no longer crash on narrow terminals
- ptyctl resize now correctly notifies the child process
- Concurrent updates to the same version no longer fail with permission or EEXIST errors
- Mermaid diagrams containing CJK or other non-Latin text now render correctly instead of tofu boxes
- grok dashboard now reliably opens the dashboard instead of silently falling through to a normal session
- Sessions no longer remain blocked forever after a transient model catalog outage during reconnect
- Cancel no longer leaves the interface stuck on "Cancelling…" after lost responses during reconnects
- Forked sessions now retain the parent’s full pre-compaction transcripts instead of only the compacted summary
- web_fetch errors on GitHub hosts now recommend using the gh CLI when internal access is blocked
- MCP server connections no longer hang when stdio servers emit undecodable lines
- Ctrl+C cancels now complete in under 50 ms instead of blocking for seconds
- Repeated varied edit failures on one file no longer trigger doom-loop warnings or terminations
- Compaction now reuses cached prompt prefix instead of full prefill
- Compaction summaries now use the concise trained prompt for non-cursor agents
Other Recent Grok Build Releases
- v1.0.13 (August 28, 2026)
- v1.0.12 (August 27, 2026)
- v1.0.11 (August 26, 2026)
- v1.0.10 (August 24, 2026)
- v1.0.9 (August 24, 2026)
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