daniel-farina/grok-build — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Run an AI coding agent in your terminal that can read, edit, and run code in your project.
Watch and steer a live coding session from your phone while the actual work stays on your computer.
Embed the agent in an editor through the Agent Client Protocol.
Run the agent headlessly in scripts or continuous integration pipelines.
| daniel-farina/grok-build | anonfedora/openpaste | codeaashu/agents-are-thinking | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Language | Rust | Rust | Rust |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Building from source needs Rust and protoc, remote control also requires Tailscale on both devices.
Grok Build is the terminal based AI coding agent built by SpaceXAI, published here as the grok command line tool. It runs as a full screen text interface that reads your codebase, edits files, runs shell commands, searches the web, and can manage tasks that take a while to finish. It can be used interactively in a terminal, run headlessly for scripts and continuous integration, or plugged into an editor through something called the Agent Client Protocol. One of the more distinctive features is remote control over Tailscale, a private networking tool. Once Tailscale is installed and connected on both a host computer and a phone using the same account, typing slash remote inside an active Grok session starts a small local web server and shows a QR code and link. Scanning it opens a mobile page where you can watch the conversation stream live and type replies, while the actual work, files, and tools stay on the host machine, nothing runs in the cloud. Each session gets its own secret link, several sessions can run at once from the same computer, and a green remote indicator in the terminal shows when a session is being watched from a phone. The mobile page also relays permission prompts so you can approve actions from your phone. To use Grok Build itself, most people install a prebuilt binary for macOS, Linux, or Windows with a single install script, then run the grok command, which opens a browser for one time authentication. Building from source instead requires Rust, which installs automatically through the pinned toolchain file, and a tool called protoc for generating code from protocol buffer definitions. The project is organized as a set of Rust crates, with one crate holding the actual terminal interface and another holding the underlying agent runtime that talks to shells, files, and tools. Full documentation, including keyboard shortcuts and configuration options, is hosted separately at docs.x.ai. The repository itself is a periodic sync of this project's SpaceXAI monorepo source rather than the primary place development happens.
A terminal based AI coding agent from SpaceXAI that edits code, runs commands, and can be steered live from your phone over Tailscale.
Mainly Rust. The stack also includes Rust, Tailscale, protoc.
No license information is shown in the README, so check the repository's license file for the exact terms.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
This repo across BitVibe Labs
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