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Grok Build

xAIcatalogue only

xAI's official Grok Build CLI, written in Rust. The headless path is grok --single with a chosen output format. A separate product from the community-built grok-cli.

spec

Maker
xAI
Kind
terminal-agent
Version
1.0.5 · checked 2026-08-20
License
Apache-2.0
npm
Not published to npm. Checked grok-build, @xai/grok-build, @xai-org/grok-build and @xai/grok on 2026-08-20; all four return 404.

getting it

curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

Not published to any npm registry. Official installs place the binary as grok. A release channel can be selected with GROK_CHANNEL, and a version can be pinned by passing it to the install script.

other channels

  • irm https://x.ai/cli/install.ps1 | iex (Windows)

how it is built

Language
Rust
Ships as
Single binary
What it can enforce
Gate in the harness · OS sandbox
Out of the box
Not recorded yet. We have not opened this one up.
Extends via
Not recorded yet. We have not opened this one up.
Embeds via
Headless CLI
Runtime
Native
Licence
Apache-2.0

capabilities it claims

Taken from the project’s own documentation. Claimed, not verified by us. Verifying is what the playground is for.

  • tools
  • headless
  • sessions

going deeper

We have not measured this one yet. Opening a harness up means reading its source, sizing every subsystem and recording a real session. That takes a while, and we would rather do three properly than eleven badly.

status: catalogue only · no measured pack