SAN FRANCISCO — xAI is making it easier to run a small army of coding agents at once. On June 15, the company introduced the Agent Dashboard for Grok Build, a command-line interface that gathers every active Grok Build session onto a single screen so developers can watch them work in parallel and intervene only when needed.
The release builds directly on xAI's developer push, following the recent launch of the Grok Build plugin marketplace that let developers wire outside tools into Grok. Where that opened up what agents can do, the Agent Dashboard tackles how many of them a single engineer can realistically manage.
One Screen for Every Session
The core idea is orientation at a glance. The dashboard sorts sessions by state and pulls anything waiting for input to the top, so blockers get handled first while everything else keeps running. A quick scan shows what each session is doing and for how long. Developers working across multiple repositories can group sessions by working directory, and subagents roll up neatly under the session that launched them — so the list reflects the work that was dispatched, not the fan-out beneath it.
Launching it is a single command. Developers run grok dashboard from a shell, or call /dashboard from inside any existing session.
Peek, Reply, and Dispatch
The dashboard is interactive, not just a status board. Selecting a row lets a developer peek at a session's latest output without leaving the view, then reply on the spot. Idle sessions receive messages immediately; active ones queue the input until the current turn finishes. When an agent needs a decision — say, which database to use for a rate limiter — its options appear inline, answerable with a keystroke.
New work starts from the same screen. The input bar at the bottom dispatches a fresh session, with options to set the model, begin in plan mode, or let the session auto-approve its own edits. It is the same agentic ambition that has pushed Grok across xAI's ecosystem, including its deployment of Grok V9-Medium into Tesla vehicles and X.
Built for How Engineers Actually Work
Developers can open any session to take over the full conversation, cycle to the next or previous one, then drop back to the dashboard when finished. Closing the dashboard leaves every session running, and they are all there on reopening.
The Agent Dashboard ships with Grok Build and requires version 0.2.20 or higher, installable with a single command, as xAI detailed in its announcement. It reflects a clear bet by xAI: that the future of software development is not one AI assistant, but many — and the winning tools will be the ones that help a single engineer conduct the whole orchestra.
