Grok Build is open source
SpaceXAI has open-sourced 'Grok Build,' a terminal-based AI coding agent designed for developers. The tool integrates with local filesystems and version control to perform tasks like code editing, shell command execution, and web searching.
Why it matters
The release of open-source AI coding agents accelerates the adoption of autonomous development tools in the software engineering industry.
Grok Build ( grok ) Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent. It runs as a full-screen TUI that understands your codebase, edits files, executes shell commands, searches the web, and manages long-running tasks — interactively, headlessly for scripting/CI, or embedded in editors via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
Installing the released binary · Building from source · Documentation · Repository layout · Development · Contributing · License
This repository contains the Rust source for the grok CLI/TUI and its agent runtime. It is synced periodically from the SpaceXAI monorepo.
Prebuilt binaries are published for macOS, Linux, and Windows:
curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash # macOS / Linux / Git Bash irm https://x.ai/cli/install.ps1 | iex # Windows PowerShell grok --version See the changelog for the latest fixes, features, and improvements in each release.
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