Searching grok cli returns two projects: the official terminal agent from xAI, installed in one command, and a separate community repository under another organisation.
Read the full page: https://grok-cli.github.io/
The official terminal agent is worth a look if you already run coding agents and want plan approval, parallel subagents and MCP plugins in one tool, since xAI ships all of that and says it is free to try. It is the wrong first agent for someone new to the category, because everything that makes it powerful, command execution, subagents with their own context, marketplace plugins, is also everything that makes it easy to misuse on a real repository. The caveat is name collision: a separate repository under a different organisation also answers to this search, and it is not the same software. If your goal is a finished site rather than an agent in your terminal, Begin.sh skips the whole question.
- Two projects answer to grok cli — The first is xAI's own product. It is presented as a coding agent for complex work, currently running on Grok 4.6, distributed as a single shell install command
- Installation is one line — The vendor puts the install command on the front of the product page: a curl fetch of an install script from x.ai piped into bash, which is the same pattern mos
- Plan mode is the differentiator — The feature that deserves attention is the plan viewer. For complex tasks you start in plan mode, and every edit is blocked until you approve the plan. You can
- Skills, plugins and parallel subagents — Three more capabilities round out the tool. Skills adapt it to your workflow, with AGENTS.md files, plugins, hooks and MCP servers all working out of the box; a
- When the terminal is the wrong starting point — All of the above assumes you have a repository worth pointing an agent at. A good share of what people want from these tools is simpler: one landing page, a sma
Try Begin.sh: begin.sh
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Last reviewed: 2026-09-22