Grok Build

by NousResearch

Grok Build is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Install Grok Build

Copy Grok Build into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/main/optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/grok ~/.claude/skills/grok

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/grok/SKILL.md in NousResearch/hermes-agent
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/grok
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Grok Build does

Grok Build delegates coding tasks to xAI's Grok Build CLI through the Hermes terminal, supporting headless one-shot runs, interactive PTY sessions, and ACP agent mode. Use it for feature building, refactoring, PR reviews, and batch issue fixing.

Grok Build is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Grok Build comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic and chatgpt.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Grok Build CLI — Hermes Orchestration Guide

Delegate coding tasks to Grok Build (xAI's autonomous coding agent CLI, the grok command) via the Hermes terminal. Grok can read files, write code, run shell commands, spawn subagents, and manage git workflows. It runs three ways: an interactive TUI, headless (-p), and as an ACP agent over JSON-RPC.

This is the third sibling to codex and claude-code. The orchestration pattern is nearly identical — prefer headless -p for one-shots, use a PTY for interactive sessions.

When to use

Building features
Refactoring
PR reviews
Batch issue fixing
Any task where you'd otherwise reach for Codex / Claude Code but want Grok

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Grok Build provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/logout
/login
/model
/always-approve
/plan
/context
/compact
/resume
/sessions
/fork
/usage
/quit

Frequently asked about Grok Build

What else does NousResearch publish alongside Grok Build?
Grok Build is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NousResearch/hermes-agent, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 1-3-1 Communication Rule, Antigravity CLI and Article Illustrator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Grok Build does, and is maintained by NousResearch in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NousResearch/hermes-agent page.
How does Grok Build compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Grok Build ranks #16 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Grok Build against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.