Grok Build Tech Stack Overview
Daniel_Farinax · x · 2026-07-16
This post outlines the Grok Build tech stack and its main crate distribution:
- Async runtime: Tokio
- UI: ratatui + crossterm
- HTTP: reqwest + rustls
- LLM: async-openai
- MCP: rmcp
- Editor protocol: ACP
- Git: gix + git2
- Sandbox: nono (Landlock / Seatbelt)
- Graph: tree-sitter + petgraph
- Memory: rusqlite + sqlite-vec
It also lists several of the largest modules, such as xai-grok-pager, xai-grok-shell, and xai-grok-tools.
Related event: Grok Build Open-Sourced as Default Retention Is Turned Off(35 posts)→
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