grok

A connector for using xAI’s Grok Build command-line coding agent from a terminal. It can read files, change code, run commands, create subagents, and manage Git workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features, refactor code, review pull requests, or fix many issues in a batch.
Why use it?
It lets you delegate coding work to Grok instead of handling every task yourself. It supports one-off jobs, interactive sessions, and automated agent connections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ggbond-bo/memomics-agent/grok
Any agent
npx skills add GGbond-bo/MemOmics-Agent --skill grok
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GGbond-bo/MemOmics-Agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,472 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00018 $0.03472
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01736
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00347

Measured yesterday against content hash a19ba446be03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

grok scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- The official installer `curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash` also

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- The official installer `curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash` also
Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to grok — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/grok/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grok Build CLI — Hermes Orchestration Guide

Delegate coding tasks to Grok Build (xAI's autonomous coding agent CLI, the grok command) via the Hermes terminal. Grok can read files, write code, run shell commands, spawn subagents, and manage git workflows. It runs three ways: an interactive TUI, headless (-p), and as an ACP agent over JSON-RPC.

This is the third sibling to codex and claude-code. The orchestration pattern is nearly identical — prefer headless -p for one-shots, use a PTY for interactive sessions.

When to use

  • Building features
  • Refactoring
  • PR reviews
  • Batch issue fixing
  • Any task where you'd otherwise reach for Codex / Claude Code but want Grok

Prerequisites

  • Install (preferred): npm install -g @xai-official/grok
    • The official installer curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash also works, but the x.ai host is Cloudflare-walled in some environments. The npm path avoids that dependency entirely.
  • Auth — SuperGrok / X Premium+ subscription (primary path):
    • Run grok login once → opens a browser for OAuth → token cached in ~/.grok/auth.json. This uses your SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription (no per-token API billing).
    • Check sign-in state by looking for ~/.grok/auth.json, or run a cheap headless smoke test: grok --no-auto-update -p "Say ok."
    • In the TUI, /logout signs out and /login (or relaunching) signs back in.
  • No git repo required — unlike Codex, Grok runs fine outside a git directory (good for scratch/throwaway tasks).
  • Claude Code / AGENTS.md compatible with zero config — Grok auto-reads CLAUDE.md, .claude/ (skills, agents, MCPs, hooks, rules), and the AGENTS.md family. Existing project context just works.

API-key fallback (not the default for this user): Grok also supports setting the XAI_API_KEY environment variable for pay-as-you-go billing via api.x.ai. Only use this if grok login / SuperGrok auth is unavailable. The subscription path (grok login) is the intended setup here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 302 lines · 18 tokens per session scan C a19ba446be03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grok is a skill published in the GitHub repository GGbond-bo/MemOmics-Agent (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 3,472 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 89% identical to grok, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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