Grok Accused of Reading Cursor Chats
WesEklund · x · 2026-07-15
A reply revealed a potential security/privacy issue: someone discovered that Grok appears to be reading Cursor's chat logs.
Clues indicate that in /.grok/bin/grok, queries for composerHeaders can be found; composerHeaders is located in Cursor's state.vscdb, a file that stores recent, un-archived chat content and is read on a newest-first basis. The original author noted they couldn't get it to fully run, but the behavior itself has sparked concerns over local data access.
Related event: Grok Caught Reading Cursor Chat History(2 posts)→
More from Safety
- Aidan Gomez: model's CoT said no tool calls right before making them — aidangomez · 2026-10-27
- Should platforms serve third-party AI agents? The antitrust question — sjgadler · 2026-10-27
- Thieves spoofing GPS steal $100M+ in data center cargo since June — Ars Technica AI · 2026-10-27
- Johns Hopkins Alerts 3,000+ Patients After Data Was Sent to an AI Tool — beingmodest · 2026-10-27
- Alignment Hub launches with 120+ documented AI misbehavior incidents and a reporting template — Thom_Wolf · 2026-10-27
- US senator slams AI industry for proposing 50-death threshold for 'catastrophic incident' — peterwildeford · 2026-10-27