wtf is grok-cli?

grok-cli is a community fork of Grok Build, SpaceXAI's terminal based AI coding agent. The original tool runs as a fullscreen text interface that reads your codebase, edits files, runs shell commands, searches the web, and manages long running tasks, either interactively in the terminal, headlessly for scripts and CI pipelines, or embedded inside code editors through the Agent Client Protocol. This particular repository is not the official version. It is maintained separately under the name happyfeetw, with system proxy support re-enabled and packaging focused on macOS. The command it installs is called grok-cli rather than grok, so it does not conflict with the official SpaceXAI tool if both are installed on the same machine. In app updates pull from this fork's own npm package and GitHub releases, not from the official x.ai channels. The fork can be installed through npm or bun, through Homebrew using a custom tap, or by downloading a prebuilt tarball from GitHub releases. All of these prebuilt options currently only cover macOS, on both Apple Silicon and Intel chips. Building from source is also supported and requires the Rust toolchain, a tool called DotSlash for fetching some hermetic build dependencies, and protoc for compiling protocol buffer code. Source builds work on macOS and Linux, while Windows support is described as best effort and not actively tested. On its first launch, the tool opens a browser window so the user can authenticate. After that it behaves as a coding assistant that lives in the terminal. The underlying project is organized into many small Rust crates covering the text interface, the agent runtime, individual tools like file editing and search, and workspace handling for git and execution. This fork is aimed at developers on macOS who want to use Grok Build's coding agent through a package distribution that isn't tied to the official installer, particularly if they rely on system level proxy settings that the official build does not read the same way.