---
title: Grok Build
slug: grok-build
url: "https://toolweight.com/options/grok-build"
homepage: "https://x.ai"
categories: coding-agents
last_verified: 2026-07-23
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# Grok Build

> xAI's coding harness, launched July 2026, on this page but not yet verified.

Grok Build appeared in July 2026 and is on this roster because leaving it off would misrepresent the category, not because we have anything to report. We have not run it, and we are not willing to restate a launch post as fact. Nearly every cell on this row is null until we do a hands-on pass; read its absence of scores as an absence of evidence, not a verdict.

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Grok Build |
| Company | xAI |
| One-liner | xAI's coding harness, launched July 2026, on this page but not yet verified. |
| Site | https://x.ai |
| Open source | No |
| Brand | https://toolweight.com/vendors/xAI |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [Coding agents](https://toolweight.com/compare/coding-agents)
Ranked **#10 of 17** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Surface | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Default model | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Model breadth | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Repo indexing | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Plan mode | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Checkpoint & undo | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Headless / CI | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Local models | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Where it stops | - | Unknown | - | - | Not scored until we have run it. Launch-post claims are not evidence for this field. |
| MCP | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Subagents | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Hooks | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Skills / commands | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Background agents | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Opens PRs | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Permissions | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| BYOK | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Licence | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Entry price | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Token markup | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| GitHub stars | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Terminal-Bench | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Bench model | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| Positioning | - | Unknown | - | - | - |
| First release | 2026-07-01 | Community-reported | - | - | July 2026 per public announcements; we have not verified the exact date. |

**Verdict.** Listed because omitting it would misrepresent the roster, scored nowhere because we have not run it. Check back at the next verification pass; until then, read the blank row as missing evidence rather than a poor result.

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- [Amp](https://toolweight.com/options/amp), Sourcegraph's opinionated agent with no model picker and an ad-supported free tier.
- [Claude Code](https://toolweight.com/options/claude-code), Anthropic's terminal-first agent, with IDE, web and GitHub Action surfaces.
- [Cline](https://toolweight.com/options/cline), Open-source VS Code and JetBrains agent built around an explicit plan/act split.
- [Codex CLI](https://toolweight.com/options/codex-cli), OpenAI's open-source Rust agent, with the strongest local sandboxing on this page.
- [Cursor](https://toolweight.com/options/cursor), VS Code fork with a real codebase index, background cloud agents and a CLI.
- [Devin](https://toolweight.com/options/devin), Fully delegated cloud engineer: file a task in Slack or the web app, get a PR back.
- [DIY harness](https://toolweight.com/options/diy-harness), Your own loop over a model API with an agent SDK, the build-it-yourself reference point.
- [Gemini CLI](https://toolweight.com/options/gemini-cli), Apache-2.0 terminal agent from Google with an unusually generous free tier.
- [GitHub Copilot (Agent HQ)](https://toolweight.com/options/github-copilot), Copilot's coding agent plus a control plane for running third-party agents on your repos.
- [Goose](https://toolweight.com/options/goose), Block's Apache-2.0 agent, MCP-native from the start, as both a CLI and a desktop app.
- [Kilo Code](https://toolweight.com/options/kilo-code), Open-source VS Code agent in the Cline/Roo lineage, with an orchestrator mode and a CLI.

## Licence and attribution

Data from toolweight (https://toolweight.com), licensed CC-BY-4.0.

- Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical HTML: https://toolweight.com/options/grok-build
- Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/options/grok-build.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp
- toolweight takes no affiliate revenue and sells no placements. Corrections: https://toolweight.com/suggest