Unofficial · not affiliated with xAI. Forge whatever you want with Grok Build right inside VS Code — images through Imagine, code through Grok — in a clean chat sidebar on your own subscription, with zero terminal needed.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
⚒️ Grok Forge — the unofficial Grok app for VS Code
Forge whatever you decide you want to make. Images through Imagine. Code through
Grok Build. All from a friendly chat sidebar in VS Code — running on your own Grok
subscription, with the terminal kept completely out of sight.
Unofficial. Grok Forge is a community project and is not affiliated with,
endorsed by, or supported by xAI. "Grok" is a trademark of xAI. This extension is
simply a friendly window onto the official Grok Build CLI that you install and sign
into yourself.
What you get
💬 Grok chat in your sidebar — click the anvil icon, talk to Grok. Live streaming
responses, conversation memory, model picker (Grok Build 512K / Composer Fast).
🎨 Imagine, right in your editor — ask Grok to imagine an image; generated assets
show up as preview cards with one-click Save to assets/ (and optional ASSETS.md
logging for license tracking).
🔐 Your subscription, your machine — everything runs through the official Grok
Build CLI locally. No keys to paste, no third-party servers in between.
🛡️ Real permission prompts — when Grok wants to act, you get big Allow/Deny
buttons (or flip on auto-approve in settings if you like to live fast).
♿ Accessibility-first — large click targets, high contrast, dictation button,
zero drag-and-drop, zero required keyboard shortcuts. Designed from day one for
single-click (including BCI) use.
Getting started
Install this extension.
Click the ⚒️ anvil icon in the activity bar.
No Grok Build CLI yet? The welcome screen installs it for you — one button runs the
official installer (curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash), another runs
grok login so you can sign in with your subscription.
Chat.
Settings
Setting
What it does
grokForge.grokPath
Path to the grok binary (blank = $GROK_CLI_PATH or ~/.grok/bin/grok)
grokForge.model
Default model for new sessions
grokForge.permissionMode
ask (Allow/Deny buttons, default) or auto-approve
How it works
Grok Forge speaks the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to a persistent grok agent stdio
session — the same architecture the official Claude Code and Zed integrations use to
talk to their CLIs. The extension is a thin, friendly cockpit; the CLI does the flying.
License
MIT. Not affiliated with xAI — see the disclaimer above.
