xAI shipped Grok Build v1.0.36 (2026-09-17). Features: dashboard setting to hide the selected-session preview, org policy to disable unmanaged hooks, and background shells as live streaming task rows. Fixes include sandbox trust exit, pinned-agent jump, Swift triple-quote highlighting, mixed-case reasoning_effort in config.toml, MCP plugin client-ID auth, and background subagent shell approvals no longer silently rejected.

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  • ✓Dashboard can hide the selected-session preview; orgs can disable unmanaged hooks via policy.
  • ✓Background shell commands appear as live task rows with streaming output.
  • ✓Fixes sandbox trust, pinned-agent jump, Swift triple-quote highlight, mixed-case reasoning_effort, MCP plugin auth, and silent rejection of background subagent shell approvals.
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