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.
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