Grok Build is open source

	Grok Build is open source(github.com)
	488 points by skp1995 16 hours ago \| 532 comments
	tl;dr: xAI has open-sourced Grok Build (aka "grok"), a Rust-based terminal AI coding agent that provides a full-screen TUI for codebase understanding, file editing, shell execution, web search, and long-running task management. It supports interactive, headless (CI/scripting), and editor-embedded modes via the Agent Client Protocol, with prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows. First-party code is Apache 2.0 licensed, though the repo includes vendored ports from OpenAI's Codex and sst/opencode.
	HN Discussion: ↑Interesting technical curiosities found within the open-sourced codebase ~Open sourcing is a tactical move by a trailing player with reputation problems ~Community is already forking to strip telemetry and add multi-provider support ↓Skepticism about xAI's trustworthiness given past data exfiltration incidents ↓Competing tools like pi.dev or Cursor make this release redundant