Grok CLI Copilot

Not an official xAI product. Independent, community-built, and held together by TypeScript and reasonable intentions. It drives your local Grok CLI over stdio. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by xAI — there is no official Grok extension from xAI for VS Code, which is roughly why this one exists. "Grok" is a trademark of xAI, borrowed here only to describe what this talks to.

A focused VS Code sidebar that puts the local Grok CLI where you already live — next to your code, instead of in yet another browser tab.

Requirements

• The Grok CLI, installed and signed in (it does the actual thinking)

Setup — log in to the Grok CLI first

This extension is a friendly face for the Grok CLI. No CLI, no face. Install and sign in before opening the sidebar, otherwise it sits there loading models with the patience of a saint and the results of a brick.

1. Install the Grok CLI:

   • Windows (PowerShell): irm https://x.ai/cli/install.ps1 | iex
   • macOS / Linux: curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

2. Log in (opens a browser):

   grok login
   

3. Open VS Code → the Super Grok sidebar and start grokking. (If the CLI isn't on your PATH, point grok.cliPath at it in Settings.)

Install

• Marketplace: open the listing

• VSIX, for the impatient:

  npm run package
  code --install-extension grok-cli-copilot-*.vsix
  

Features

• chat with the local Grok CLI without leaving your editor
• a quiet transcript: thinking and tool steps sit on one vertical rail, each a single dim line — a dot, what it's doing, and how many tokens it has spent — so the answer stays where you're looking instead of below a wall of reasoning
• expand any step to read the full trace; collapsed is the default
• session history and quick switching, because you will lose track
• slash commands (with search) and effort control — dial the reasoning up or down
• file/folder context, @ mentions, and image paste
• inline generated media and permission cards (it asks before it touches anything)

Settings

• grok.cliPath — where the CLI lives, for when auto-detect gives up
• grok.defaultModel
• grok.defaultEffort
• grok.includeActiveFileByDefault
• grok.useCtrlEnterToSend

License

MIT