model

A command for viewing or changing the shared default model used by the text commands chat and search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it interactively or with JSON to inspect the available models and save one model as the shared default.
Why use it?
It prevents you from choosing the model separately for each of those commands.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/moore-developers/grok-cli/model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Moore-developers/grok-cli
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 439 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash c260e354c24d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/model.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

grok-cli model

Purpose

Inspect and choose the shared default model for text commands. chat and search share the same default, so changing it once affects both.

grok-cli mode is an alias for grok-cli model.

Common Usage

Interactive selection:

grok-cli model
grok-cli mode

In an interactive terminal, the command shows the following list and supports arrow-key navigation:

grok-4.5
grok-4.6
exit

After selection, it prints:

Model switched to <MODEL>.

Script or skill lookup:

grok-cli model --json

Script or skill direct selection:

grok-cli model --json --model grok-4.6

Parameters

  • --json: use the standard JSON envelope; this skips interactive selection.
  • --auth-file <PATH>: override the OAuth state file path.
  • --model <MODEL>: save the shared default model for chat and search.

Behavior

  • grok-cli model needs a readable auth state.
  • It no longer exposes show, list, or set subcommands.
  • Without --model, interactive terminals open the arrow-key selection UI; non-interactive environments print the current selection and model catalog.
  • With --model, the shared text model is written to auth.json metadata.
  • --command and --task are preserved only as hidden compatibility parameters. Public behavior always keeps chat and search on the same model.
  • Media commands should pass --model directly on their own command line if they need a model override.

JSON Fields

Lookup mode data contains:

  • provider
  • selected_model
  • selected
  • catalog

Set mode data contains:

  • provider
  • model
  • selected
  • catalog
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 79 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c260e354c24d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

model is a command published in the GitHub repository Moore-developers/grok-cli (52 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 439 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.