xAI Open-Sources Grok Build Coding Agent — 1 Million Lines of Rust
xAI open-sourced Grok Build — its agentic coding tool with terminal UI — on GitHub on July 15, 2026. The project is approximately 1 million lines of Rust code.
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xAI open-sourced Grok Build — its agentic coding tool with terminal UI — on GitHub on July 15, 2026. The project is approximately 1 million lines of Rust code.
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xAI open-sourced Grok Build on July 15, 2026 — its terminal UI coding agent is now available on GitHub at xai-org/grok-build. The release came one day after security researchers discovered Grok Build was uploading excessive portions of users' code repos to Google Cloud.
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