Grok CLI >>> Cursor and Claude Code We wanted an IDE for xAI's Grok so we did something meta: we prompted the newly released Grok 4 to create... Grok CLI itself! Grok CLI can: 1. Modify local files and use the shell 2. Go through huge codebases and fix... them 3. Persist for longer and solve really complex math and physics problems Instant setup on Replit ⠕ Bonus: Can create and run ai agents with it's completely open source!! link to the code: link to the repl:show more

@xai @grok You're like the fourth person I've seen creating a CLI wrapper. How is this better than Claude Code? It's not subsidized. $200 a month for Claude Code and you get the equivalent of $10,000 in inference. Meanwhile you're wanting us to pay $15 per M tokens with Grok 4?

@xai @grok Try it out. It’s more genetic.

@php100 @xai @grok what does genetic mean?

agentic i guess what he meant, still vague and can't convince me otherwise. I'm literally spawning 20 agents across 5 different codebases working in parallel on each one.. Can't get more agentic than that. On top of it it's subsidized compute, not per M tokens. So idk man, this might be cope.

@KaranVaidya6 @xai @grok yeah, I looked at the codebase, and doesn't seem like they're doing anything special tbh would like to know more about your work flow? do your parallel instances talk to each other? would that be something you would like?

Parallel instances don't talk to each other, they are spawned either through Task Tool within Claude Code CLI running under one orchestrated (non-headless) instance. Or you can run parallel agents via individual terminals using claude clode --dangerously-run flag or w/e it is Then tie it all together in a nice bash script like this

@MisalignedModel @KaranVaidya6 @xai @grok It’s still only for Mac right?

@MisalignedModel @KaranVaidya6 @xai @grok I'm pretty sure there's Windows WSL solution found it

@xai @grok just use opencode

@xai @grok And its using a monthly account that you pay for until it reaches the limit like claude code? Or is it just another bank draining agentic API we can go broke with?

@xai @grok Haha, it’s in your grok sub

@xai @grok This is pretty silly really. Its just 2 small python files with langchain tools and agent loops. Its just a very simple langchain wrapper. Please enlighten me how this could even be superior to something like claude code or gemini cli?

@xai @grok High time people stop doing this and double down on @OpenCode_AI @thdxr we need better system prompts more tools not another agentic loop cli which open code does very well and is open source.

@xai @grok Interesting, using Grok to build its own CLI offers a unique self-improving development loop.

@xai @grok hey karan, thanks for this lol

@xai @grok Would be great to get some ♥️ from @xai 😃

@xai @grok Do yo need api, or can you autenticate using normal acount?

@xai @grok API

@xai @grok there is no way those 3 python files in that repo are more powerful than cursor haha ..

@xai @grok @grok 뭐야?

@xai @grok How's your wallet doing, sir?

Not for nothing bro, I wouldn't call 100 lines of code a CLI shell for Grok. LoL. This is literally a single prompt with Grok. ┌─[siraj@dtop] - [~] - [2025-07-10 11:26:28] └─[0] <> git clone Cloning into 'codex'... remote: Enumerating objects: 14429, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (549/549), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (256/256), done. remote: Total 14429 (delta 430), reused 316 (delta 293), pack-reused 13880 (from 3) Receiving objects: 100% (14429/14429), 23.91 MiB | 7.91 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (9336/9336), done. ┌─[siraj@dtop] - [~] - [2025-07-10 11:26:34] └─[0] <> cd codex ┌─[siraj@dtop] - [~/codex] - [2025-07-10 11:26:37] └─[0] <git:(main 9e58076) > find . -type f -name "*.ts" -exec cat {} \; | wc | awk '{print $1}' 17832 ┌─[siraj@dtop] - [~/codex] - [2025-07-10 11:26:55] └─[0] <git:(main 9e58076) > There's a huge difference there man... like 17.7k lines of functionality difference.

@xai @grok Please make it @elonmusk - I never asked you for anything else before ;)

@xai @grok I used claude cli to gemini model and asked grok to build the conversation...it's wildddd

@xai @grok Pretty amazing. How is it better than Claude Code, and the others?

@xai @grok More agentic

@xai @grok does it have an awareness system?

@xai @grok Yes grok

@xai @grok Pajajjajaj good joke

@xai @grok this sounds interesting. using grok to create an entire cli is a smart move. curious to see if it really holds up against the others. the open-source angle is dope too. can’t wait to give it a spin.

@xai @grok @VibhravJ

@xai @grok It thinks for itself, yet?

@xai @grok This seems like its written by a guy who has no idea what the hell Claude is

@xai @grok last answer was extracted directly from the pdf haha. but this is flawless!!

@xai @grok Is it free to use now?

@xai @grok I did much simpler...

@xai @grok every other solution clears this thing, codex, claude code, opencode, copilot, cursor ...

@xai @grok We'll have to see but I'd rather stick with Claude until there are more reviews

@xai @grok if something like this was included into grok subscription ... man that would be cool af

@xai @grok @iannuttall there you go another one build it too

@xai @grok Bloody hell

@xai @grok smokes is holy.

@xai @grok Insanely meta, Grok 4 building its own CLI is peak agentic coding. Curious to see how it handles huge refactors vs Cursor!

@xai @grok This is so metaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@xai @grok Kudos! Can you please share the chat session directing grok 4 to create this CLI ?

@xai @grok @elonmusk FUCKING THIS.

@xai @grok interface reinvented?

@xai @grok This is a brilliant idea to ask from to create its own CLI!!