- Running `grok` in a project opens a full-screen interface, and `grok -p` runs non-interactively with plain, JSON or streaming output.
- In plan mode, write tools stay blocked until you approve the plan.
- `grok inspect` lists the configuration sources it found, and `/skillify` turns a session into a reusable skill.
- By default it asks before each tool call. You can switch to always-approve, but the author advises that only in trusted CI sandboxes.
- The same model is available through xAI's API and replaces the retired `grok-code-fast-1`.
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