Run Grok Build in Agentastic
xAI's coding agent with prompt-file support for cloud machines and full interactive control on your Mac.
What Agentastic adds
Give every task its own worktree, branch, or container.
Keep Grok Build's real CLI and your existing configuration.
Inspect the diff, run code review, test, and open a pull request.
Launch Grok Build
- Install the official CLI and sign in with your existing provider account.
- Open a repository in Agentastic. The connection is discovered from your PATH.
- Open Agent Home, choose Grok Build, describe the task, and select worktree, local, container, cloud, or remote mode.
Every run gets its own git worktree, so three tasks can share a repository without sharing a branch or a build directory.
What Grok Build supports
- Launch from a task description: supported
Type the task in Agent Home and Agentastic hands it to grok at launch, so the run starts from your prompt instead of an empty session.
- Unattended runs: supported
Grok Build can run without stopping for per-tool confirmation, which is what makes an overnight or scheduled run finish on its own.
- Plan before editing: supported
Start Grok Build in a read-only pass that proposes an approach without touching the working tree, then approve it and let the same session execute.
- Resume a session: supported
Reopen the last Grok Build session for a worktree and keep its history — useful when reviewing the diff turns up one more change.
- Structured chat: supported
Talk to Grok Build in a native chat that renders thinking, nested tool calls, plans, and permission requests as structured events instead of scraped terminal output.
- Code review: not supported
Grok Build writes the change; pair it with a review-capable agent for the pass before merge.
Agentastic reads these from Grok Build's own CLI rather than emulating them, and modes it does not support stay out of the picker. The provider reference lists the exact flags for each launch, and how to compare coding agents covers what changes when you switch harnesses.
Grok Build questions
Is there a GUI for Grok Build?
Yes. Agentastic runs the real Grok Build CLI (grok) in a native Mac workspace with a git worktree, terminal, diff view, and code review for each task, plus a structured chat view of the session.
How do I run multiple Grok Build sessions in parallel?
Start each task from Agent Home in worktree mode. Agentastic gives every run its own git worktree and terminal, so several Grok Build sessions can work in one repository without editing the same files.
How do I install Grok Build?
Run curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash, then sign in the way Grok Build's documentation describes. Agentastic finds the grok command on your PATH when you open a repository.
Does Agentastic charge for Grok Build?
No. Agentastic is free and does not proxy model calls. It launches Grok Build with the credentials and plan you already use, so any usage is billed by your provider, not by Agentastic.