Grok Build Desktop

Grok Build Desktop

A native desktop app for xAI's Grok CLI — a calm, Claude-Desktop-style home for coding with Grok.

If you live in the grok CLI, this gives it a real window: streaming answers, a sidebar of past conversations, MCP tools, and a Skills hub. No terminal-wrapper jank.

Apple Silicon build · Windows / Intel: build from source

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Theme-aware light and dark.

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Overview

Grok Build Desktop turns the official Grok Build CLI into a native desktop coding app instead of a raw terminal wrapper. Two modes:

- Grok Chat — quick questions, product thinking, explanations, non-code tasks.
- Grok Code — repository inspection, implementation, debugging, reviews, tests, refactors, and terminal verification.

Grok is the only model path exposed in the UI. The model selector reflects exactly what your installed Grok CLI advertises via grok models, so you never silently fall back to a model you didn't pick.

Features

- Non-blocking streaming UI — Grok runs use --output-format streaming-json; events flow through a Rust queue → typed Tauri events → a useSyncExternalStore store → an off-thread markdown Web Worker. The composer, panels, and theme toggle stay fully interactive while a run streams. Text reveals with natural typewriter pacing.
- FIFO run queue — type a new prompt while one is still streaming and it joins the queue (persisted in SQLite, survives restart).
- Conversation history — the sidebar lists your conversations newest-first, each titled by its first prompt; click one to reopen it in full. Rename, pin, group, archive, or delete any conversation; archived ones stay searchable from ⌘K.
- Tools & Skills hub — one page, two tabs. MCP servers: a catalog of…