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).
See the changelog for the latest fixes,
features, and improvements in each release.
Building from source
Requirements:
Rust — the toolchain is pinned by rust-toolchain.toml;
rustup installs it automatically on first build.
protoc — proto codegen resolves bin/protoc (a
dotslash launcher) 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.
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.
The user guide ships with the pager crate:
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
