18 repos built around xAI's open Grok weights, collected
A long post rounds up 18 repositories that grew around Grok's open weights, including the official weights, a coding agent, system prompts, and proxy gateways, desktop clients and video/image workflows.
xAI open sourced a frontier model and an entire ecosystem grew out of it, this is absolute f*cking gold 18 repos, six categories, 311,000+ stars across the top five alone xAI opened the weights, developers opened everything else, and the gap between those two things is where the whole ecosystem grew 1 / straight from xAI > grok-1 / 52.2K, the actual weights, Apache 2.0, the repo that started all of this > grok-build / 26.1K, the official coding agent and TUI, full harness readable before you trust it with your codebase > grok-prompts / 4.4K, the real system prompts behind the grok bot, primary source instead of someone's guess the access category is the one that should make you sit up nobody waited for an official API, they built their own door and tens of thousands of people walked through it 2 / getting around the gate > CLIProxyAPI / 49K, wraps Grok Build, Codex and Claude Code into an OpenAI compatible endpoint > sub2api / 39.6K, one gateway across Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Grok, with pooled group billing > grok2api / 7.5K, multi-account gateway for anyone running Grok past a single personal login > AIClient2API / 8.7K, same need, different implementation, client access turned into clean API calls > grok-cli / 3.4K, lightweight open source agent on the Grok API if the official harness is too much 3 / wrappers and desktop > cc-switch / 129.7K, the biggest repo here and it is not close, flip between Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok Build and Hermes in one window > airi / 48.5K, self-hosted Grok companion, strange to describe, clearly a lot of people's thing > hapi / 4.9K, mobile app, kick off a build from your phone grok-app / 1.1K, desktop GUI over the local Grok Build CLI 4 / imagine, video and image > grok-video-workflow / 123, downloads and frame previews in one pipeline awesome-grok-imagine-prompts / 41, cinematic, anime, product, meme prompts that already work 5 / mcp and search > GrokSearch / 1.8K, Grok's live X feed inside Claude through MCP > MCP-SuperAssistant / 2.6K, tool use inside ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity and Gemini web apps > ContextX / 132, free remote MCP server with deep search, no API keys start with one proxy and one wrapper, not the whole list official repos gave people material, proxies gave people access, wrappers gave people one place to run it, MCP filled in what nobody shipped most people still have one tab open typing questions into a box, the 300,000 stars are on the other side of that gap
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