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grok-cli

The most adopted independent coding agent built for one vendor's model API, and the only published one combining subagent delegation with scheduled unattended runs and host desktop automation.

Source model

Open source

Licenses

MIT License

Deployment

Local CLI

Status

Active

Product boundary

Distinct from the published community agent for the same model family on capabilities and canonical data rather than on interfaces, where it is the poorer of the two: it has no client-protocol surface, while the other does. Its licence is a template that was never filled in, naming no copyright holder. The last change to the default branch predates this review by three and a half months, and three pull requests claiming security fixes have been open since mid-2026.

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