Grok Build
By xAI
Terminal coding agent from xAI, around 25,700 GitHub stars, that runs as a full-screen mouse-interactive TUI to read a codebase, edit files, execute shell commands, search the web, and track long-running tasks, with a headless mode for scripts and CI and prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Best for
- agentic coding from the terminal
- headless agent runs inside CI pipelines and scripts
- long-running refactors managed as tracked tasks
- a mouse-interactive TUI instead of a plain REPL
- Aug 19, 2026Added to the catalogue: xAI's terminal coding agent and full-screen TUI with a headless mode for CI, ~25,700 GitHub stars.
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