Grok Build (Community) — VS Code + Desktop GUI
Popular community GUI for Grok Build CLI: VS Code/Cursor extension plus standalone Electron desktop for sessions, diffs, and Grok 4.6 workflows.
Caution: review the findings below before installing.
CautionScan verdict · score 50/100
- Coverage
- full
- Checks run
- Rule-based pattern scan
- Files checked
- 415
- Findings
- 4
- Scanned
- 2026-11-01
Badges are rule-based checks, not guarantees: Safe means our rules found no obvious threat in the code we could read. Review code before installing.
Botlens score · 8 factors
50/100
Each factor is 0, ½ or 1, computed only from catalog fields (scan result, coverage, findings, script files, commit/SHA, author, last seen, install link). A heuristic summary, not a guarantee.
| Scan verdict | 0.5/1 | Caution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code coverage | 1/1 | full | |
| Rule findings | 0/1 | 6 matched | |
| No executable scripts | 0/1 | 376 script file(s) of 415 | |
| Pinned source | 1/1 | commit/SHA-256 recorded | |
| Named author | 0/1 | unknown | |
| Recently seen | 1/1 | last seen 2026-10-30 | |
| Install path | 0.5/1 | source URL only |
Scan details
- Findings
- Hand review 2026-11-01: Triage: documents or runs a curl|bash-style installer. Credential-source sweep (browser cookies, Keychain, app token files, exfil hosts) found nothing; no evidence of data theft in the stored content.
- asks for overly broad permissions: "…from GitHub Releases and run `sudo apt install ./Grok-Build-Desk…"
- hides actions from the owner (soft wording): "… in another project no longer quietly attaches a file from the folder VS Cod…"
- markdown image with dynamic query (zero-click exfil): https://img.shields.io/badge/VS%20Code-Extension-007ACC?logo=visualstudiocode&lo
- Content SHA-256
- 2e5431624698a783…
- Commit
- d3cf9a780b
- Files
- .gitattributes
.gitignore
.vscode-test.mjs
.vscodeignore
ACP-MCP-ask.md
AGENTS.md
+409
About
- Author
- phuryn ↗
- Listed on
- github:RongleCat/awesome-grok-bot ↗
- Category (approx.)
- coding
- First seen
- 2026-10-30
- Last seen
- 2026-10-30
- URL
- github.com ↗