**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](#installing-the-released-binary) ·
[Building from source](#building-from-source) ·
[Documentation](#documentation) ·
[Repository layout](#repository-layout) ·
[Development](#development) ·
[Contributing](#contributing) ·
[License](#license)
**Learn more about Grok Build at [x.ai/cli](https://x.ai/cli)**
This repository contains the Rust source for the `grok` CLI/TUI and its agent
runtime. It is synced periodically from the SpaceXAI monorepo.
A small `SOURCE_REV` file at the root records the full monorepo commit SHA
for the version of the code present in this tree.
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## Installing the released binary
Prebuilt binaries are published for macOS, Linux, and Windows:
```sh
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](https://x.ai/build/changelog) for the latest fixes,
features, and improvements in each release.
## Building from source
Requirements:
- **Rust** — the toolchain is pinned by [`rust-toolchain.toml`](rust-toolchain.toml);
`rustup` installs it automatically on first build.
- **[DotSlash](https://dotslash-cli.com)** — required so hermetic tools under
[`bin/`](bin/) (notably [`bin/protoc`](bin/protoc)) can download and run.
Install it and ensure `dotslash` is on your `PATH` **before** building:
```sh
cargo install dotslash
# or: prebuilt packages — https://dotslash-cli.com/docs/installation/
/usr/bin/env dotslash --help # sanity check
```
- **protoc** — proto codegen resolves [`bin/protoc`](bin/protoc) via DotSlash,
or falls back to a `protoc` on `PATH` / `$PROTOC`.
- macOS and Linux are supported build hosts; Windows builds are best-effort
and not currently tested from this tree.
```sh
cargo run -p xai-grok-pager-bin # build + launch the TUI
cargo build -p xai-grok-pager-bin --release # release binary: target/release/xai-grok-pager
cargo check -p xai-grok-pager-bin # fast validation
```
The binary artifact is named `xai-grok-pager`; official installs ship it as
`grok`. On first launch it opens your browser to authenticate — see the
[authentication guide](crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager/docs/user-guide/02-authentication.md).
## Documentation
Full online documentation is available at
[docs.x.ai/build/overview](https://docs.x.ai/build/overview).
The user guide ships with the pager crate:
[`crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager/docs/user-guide/`](crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager/docs/user-guide/)
— getting started, keyboard shortcuts, slash commands, configuration, theming,
MCP servers, skills, plugins, hooks, headless mode, sandboxing, and more.
## Repository layout
| Path | Contents |
|------|----------|
| `crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager-bin` | Composition-root package; builds the `xai-grok-pager` binary |
| `crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager` | The TUI: scrollback, prompt, modals, rendering |
| `crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell` | Agent runtime + leader/stdio/headless entry points |
| `crates/codegen/xai-grok-tools` | Tool implementations (terminal, file edit, search, ...) |
| `crates/codegen/xai-grok-workspace` | Host filesystem, VCS, execution, checkpoints |
| `crates/codegen/...` | The rest of the CLI crate closure (config, MCP, markdown, sandbox, ...) |
| `crates/common/`, `crates/build/`, `prod/mc/` | Small shared leaf crates pulled in by the closure |
| `third_party/` | Vendored upstream source (Mermaid diagram stack) — see below |
> [!IMPORTANT]
> The root `Cargo.toml` (workspace members, dependency versions, lints,
> profiles) is **generated** — treat it as read-only. Prefer editing per-crate
> `Cargo.toml` files.
## Development
```sh
cargo check -p # always target specific crates; full-workspace builds are slow
cargo test -p xai-grok-config # per-crate tests
cargo clippy -p # lint config: clippy.toml at the repo root
cargo fmt --all # rustfmt.toml at the repo root
```
## Contributing
> [!NOTE]
> External contributions are not accepted. See [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## License
First-party code in this repository is licensed under the **Apache License,
Version 2.0** — see [`LICENSE`](LICENSE).
Third-party and vendored code remains under its original licenses. See:
- [`THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES`](THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES) — crates.io / git dependencies,
bundled UI themes, and **in-tree source ports** (including openai/codex and
sst/opencode tool implementations)
- [`crates/codegen/xai-grok-tools/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`](crates/codegen/xai-grok-tools/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md)
— crate-local notice for the codex and opencode ports (license texts +
Apache §4(b) change notice)
- [`third_party/NOTICE`](third_party/NOTICE) — vendored Mermaid-stack index
