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Grok Build Src 780d1388fff1

a4221165824e→780d1388fff1·August 3, 2026 at 9:03 AM UTC

0.2.118 — permanent session deletion, richer keyboard-help and grok doctor tmux truecolor support, plus reliability fixes for /btw, compact, background tasks, and plan UI.

Changelog

  • [new] Sessions can be permanently deleted from the dashboard by pressing Ctrl+X twice on an idle row, or from the welcome list with d then y.
  • [new] Keyboard shortcuts help (Ctrl+.) documents how to browse prompt history and search the conversation.
  • [new] grok doctor warns when tmux is reducing colors and can fix the config (terminal.tmux-truecolor).
  • [fix] /btw retries on temporary model overload instead of failing immediately.
  • [changed] Session sharing is temporarily disabled.
  • [fix] [stop] / Ctrl+C during /compact cancels the run instead of no-opping.
  • [fix] Automatic recaps no longer appear twice after the same turn.
  • [fix] Background task wait timeout descriptions and limits match the client’s actual configured ceiling.
  • [fix] Background tasks no longer stay stuck as Running in the tasks pane when they finish quickly.
  • [fix] Plan mode indicator disappears right after approving a plan instead of lingering.
  • [fix] Dragging the scrollbar in the plan preview works as expected.
  • [fix] Compaction correctly handles certain context-length errors from the inference API.

Agent & tools

  • Question-card (ask_user_question) keyboard handling is fully specified: Tab/Shift+Tab cycle answers across questions, arrows/hjkl move within or between questions, digit/letter hotkeys pick answers, free-text via z/Space, dismiss with Shift+X, fullscreen with Ctrl+F.
  • Doctor can now persist a fourth tmux option, terminal.tmux-truecolor (set -as terminal-features ",*:RGB"), alongside clipboard, DCS passthrough, and extended-keys fixes.
  • External auth refresh: headless refresh runs stay short-timeout with stdin closed; if the provider cannot mint a token that way, the stored credential is dropped and the interactive provider flow is used (startup sign-in, or mid-session re-auth via /login). Mid-session refresh kill timeout is 7s.
  • Read-only git allowlist extended with common inspection commands (blame, describe, merge-base, shortlog, cat-file, ls-tree, show-ref, for-each-ref, rev-list, and related).
  • Permission path globs match after lexical normalization (./.. collapsed; relatives joined to the session cwd). ~-prefixed tool paths match literally. Rooted patterns cannot be escaped by traversal; shell deny checks use the same normalization and still resolve symlinks.

Docs

  • User guide: sessions deletion gestures; authentication external-provider refresh/interactive fallback; keyboard shortcuts for question cards and focus; terminal support for tmux truecolor detection and fix; permissions path-matching rules and expanded git read-only list; monitoring/usage for OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_CERTIFICATE (and signal-specific variants) plus startup suppression / fleet-policy gating of external OTLP.
  • shell README: external auth refresh behavior and log lines; sample config no longer documents a top-level [shortcuts] block; project-scoped .grok/config.toml note clarified (only [mcp_servers]).
  • Changelog entries for 0.2.118 published.

Under the hood

  • Workspace crates bumped to 0.2.118; Rust toolchain channel is 1.93.0.
  • TLS stack gains rustls (aws-lc-rs), webpki-roots, and rcgen (PEM); quinn-proto updated.
  • GROK_ASSET_SERVER_URL removed from the env surface.
  • Internal trace-classify binary/module removed; additional coverage for plan scrollbar grab, question-card tab cycling, task-completed framing, resource telemetry, and external OTLP gRPC TLS.

Upgrade notes

  • Building from source expects the pinned toolchain in rust-toolchain.toml (1.93.0).
  • If you relied on GROK_ASSET_SERVER_URL, drop or replace that configuration — it is no longer read.
  • After applying Doctor’s tmux truecolor fix, reload the tmux config and detach/reattach so both server and client pick up RGB.
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