on "caring about work" in the agentic era software engineers for the longest of times cared deeply about the code being written, practices being followed. We would fight over tabs/spaces or how imports should be styled. now that frontier models can write all our code to a more than reasonable extent, I think our roles evolve in the same way that we don't everyday worry about the machine level code being shipped. I think of this as "intent": if presented with a problem where every nano-second counts you will spend time going over the gnarly details of the code, if you worry about horizontal scale you will worry about resilience and startup time of your service. my conclusion is that people who "care" will use agents to show that care, it will not readily reflect in the code quality or LOC but when the end user uses it, the care and attention to detail will come through. I for one am very very excited about a world where people can choose to care about the work they are doing to the deepest extent and get joy from it, for some it might still be writing the perfect code but for others it will be doing the impossible...

we now render mermaid diagrams and also latex, making it easier for you to reason over any engineering use-case

agent maxxing but it doesn't involve going kungfu on your terminal

got cooked so hard its beyond "well done"

We are rolling out a new version of Grok Build checkpoint. You should expect: - more parallel tool calling behavior - better ability to ask you questions - slightly better presentation critical feedback is always appreciated!

we are resetting rate limits so you all can try out Grok Build more! we now ship with a new checkpoint of Grok Build and Composer 2.5 as always looking for critical feedback to improve

Bug fixes shipping to Grok Build 0.2.20 (release notes will be available in the TUI and on change-log website) • Eliminate ghost-cell artifacts in markdown table rendering • Make monitors visible and killable to the model • Preserve soft breaks in plan preview • Add image_to_video and reference_to_video tools • Add bundled imagine skill • Convert ICO images to PNG • Resolve [Image # N] attachment references in image_edit • Open fullscreen viewer on Enter for Search and ListDir blocks • Route MCP lifecycle notifications by sessionId bound per-server init • Route mouse-wheel scroll to /btw overlay panel • Compaction: neutralize echoed summarization instruction in summary seed • Structured compaction prompt (successor-assistant, carry-forward, <analysis> block) • Dedupe between-turn subagent completion reminders • Allow auto-update to downgrade on rollback • Dedupe MCP servers declared in both .mcp.json and plugin.json • Fix local stdio MCP servers on Windows

Bug fixes shipping to Grok Build 0.2.16 (release notes will be available in the TUI and on change-log website) • fix stuck "Starting session..." / "Connecting MCPs (0/0)..." • show where external skills/mcps/hooks/plugins originate in grok inspect • fix Terminal app unsafe shortcuts • render streaming bash output • use grok to derive /loop interval from the request instead of hardcoded parsing • fix parent session state (background tasks, monitor) leaking into subagent conversations • make Claude/Cursor skills, AGENTS, mcps, and plugins configurable • wire --permission-mode acceptEdits to auto-approve edits • share FS watchers by working directory • inject UTF-8 env defaults for Windows child processes • fix blank completed bash / code-execution cards • fix scroll wrap on scrolling vs. shortcuts on all menus

We are excited for all of you to try out Composer 2.5 in Grok Build starting today! To use composer-2-5 do `/model` in Grok Build and type in Composer to switch Composer 2.5 comes with 200k context window and supports: subagents, MCPs, skills and additionally also works with your .cursor settings

Bug fixes shipping to Grok Build 0.2.13 (release notes will be available in the TUI and on change-log website) We are leveraging the alt-screen to better handle your background tasks, subagents, monitors with smart grouping allowing you to navigate between them quickly • Group Subagents → Tasks → Watchers, within subagents, order by agent type (Explore, General, Plan) • Show timestamps on pinned user messages at top of scrollback • Fix command highlighting when prompt has paste chips • Update the context-usage indicator to show tokens by default • ANSI16 fallback for themes • Better context usage breakdown/rendering • Update highlighting for /loop, monitor, tag colors • Tab now cycles Prompt → Scrollback → Tasks → Prompt • Order gateway turn-completion after streamed content • Formatting: fix language-tagged fenced code blocks and fix code under a list item

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