Grok Build v1.0.36

Grok Build v1.0.36 was released on September 17, 2026.

Summary

Grok Build 1.0.36 brings better control over your workspace with a new dashboard preview toggle and stronger security policies for organizations managing hooks. You'll also notice smoother performance—pinned agents stay put, background commands stream live, and shell approvals...

Release Context

This was the 145th Grok Build release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
It shipped 1 day after Grok Build v1.0.34 (September 16, 2026).

Shipped around the same time

Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:

Claude Code v2.1.278 (September 19, 2026)
Antigravity CLI v1.2.7 (September 19, 2026)
OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.155.1 (September 18, 2026)
Claude Code v2.1.277 (September 18, 2026)
Antigravity CLI v1.2.6 (September 18, 2026)

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Release Notes

Grok Build 1.0.36

Dashboard preview setting lets you hide the selected-session preview panel
Policy setting allows organizations to disable hooks that are not from managed policy
Background shell commands appear as live task rows with streaming output
grok --sandbox no longer exits when accepting folder trust
Pinned agents in the dashboard no longer jump when their activity changes
Swift code with triple-quoted strings highlights correctly in the pager
Mixed-case reasoning_effort values (for example xHigh) are accepted in config.toml
Pressing Enter right after sending from the dashboard no longer opens an empty agent session
Sessions respect an [agent] set in config.toml instead of always using a builtin plan
MCP plugin authentication succeeds for servers that declare a client ID in their manifest
Shell command approvals from background subagents are shown instead of being silently rejected

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Other Recent Grok Build Releases

v1.0.40 (September 20, 2026)
v1.0.39 (September 20, 2026)
v1.0.38 (September 19, 2026)
v1.0.35 (September 16, 2026)
v1.0.33 (September 15, 2026)

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