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grok-build-cli

Invoke the locally installed Grok Build CLI from Codex and return Grok's response. Use whenever the user asks Codex to call, consult, run, or delegate a prompt to Grok or Grok Build, including Grok web/X searches and agentic Grok tasks. This Skill covers only the invocation mechanism, process monitoring, and response capture; it does not prescribe the task itself.

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Invoke the locally installed Grok Build CLI from Codex and return Grok's response. Use whenever the user asks Codex to call, consult, run, or delegate a prompt to Grok or Grok Build, including Grok web/X searches and agentic Grok tasks. This Skill covers only the invocation mechanism, process monitoring, and response capture; it does not prescribe the task itself.
# Call Grok Build Call the local `grok` CLI from Codex. Do not add an unrelated research, download, editing, or production workflow. ## Check availability Before the first call in a task, run: ```bash command -v grok grok models ``` `grok models` must confirm that the user is logged in and show at least one available model. If authentication is missing, report it and run `grok login` only when the user wants to authenticate interactively. ## Choose the call form For a direct single-turn answer that does not need Grok tools: ```bash grok --single 'PROMPT' --output-format plain ``` For an agentic task that may use Grok's tools, including X or web search, put the full prompt in a UTF-8 file and run: ```bash grok --prompt-file '/absolute/path/prompt.md' \ --max-turns 8 \ --output-format plain ``` Use `--model MODEL` only when the user requests a particular available model. Otherwise use Grok's configured default. ## Run from Codex 1. For a long prompt, create `prompt.md` with `apply_patch`; avoid fragile shell quoting. 2. Start Grok with `exec_command`, normally using `yield_time_ms: 1000`. 3. If the command returns a session ID, poll it with `write_stdin`, sending an empty string and waiting at most 30 seconds per poll. 4. Share a concise progress update when a call runs longer than 60 seconds. 5. Capture Grok's final stdout. Treat a nonzero exit code, `Max turns reached`, or empty final output as failure. 6. Return Grok's answer to the user, clearly identified as Grok's result when attribution matters. ## Isolation When Grok should only execute the supplied prompt and must not inspect the current repository's skills or instructions, give it an empty temporary working directory: ```bash GROK_CALL_DIR="$(mktemp -d)" grok --cwd "$GROK_CALL_DIR" --no-memory --no-subagents \ --prompt-file '/absolute/path/prompt.md' \ --max-turns 8 \ --output-format plain ``` Use this isolation by default for web/X research and independent second opinions. Use the actual project directory only when Grok must read or modify that project. ## Guardrails - Do not claim Grok was called unless the CLI actually ran. - Do not fabricate, paraphrase as successful, or silently replace an empty or failed Grok response. - Do not pass secrets in prompts or command-line arguments. - Do not use `--always-approve`, `bypassPermissions`, or broad write access unless the user explicitly authorizes the corresponding mutations. - Do not resume an unrelated prior Grok session. Start a new call unless the user explicitly asks to continue a specific Grok session. - Keep this Skill task-agnostic: the user's prompt determines what Grok does.
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