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grok-unleashed: stripped grok-build CLI removes x.ai telemetry and OAuth, fixes OpenAI-compatible relay bugs
A GitHub project called grok-unleashed repackages the grok-build CLI as a static binary that works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It removes x.ai OAuth requirements, telemetry, source-artifact uploads, and workspace snapshots. This matters to practitioners who want to run grok-build against their own API endpoints without x.ai's phone-home behavior.
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- Fork removes source-artifact upload worker, workspace snapshots, OTLP telemetry export, permission prompts, and first-party credential routing via a 11-file diff (-597/+185 lines).
- Fork requires no x.ai account or OAuth session and ships as one static binary targeting any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with zero telemetry.
- Fixes third-party relay 502s by backfilling original tool names at the sampling layer and reassembling streaming function-call deltas over SSE.
- Multi-model config swaps base_url, model, and key to run DeepSeek, Zhipu, Kimi, ollama, or any relay.
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