What is failure-build?

Failure Build is a terminal based AI coding assistant, forked from xAI's open source Grok Build project. It runs as a fullscreen, mouse interactive terminal application that can look at your codebase, edit files, run shell commands, search the web, control a real web browser, perform structured git operations like checking status or making commits, and manage tasks that take a long time to finish. What sets this fork apart from the original Grok Build is that it lets you choose which AI provider powers it. Instead of being locked into x.ai's Grok models, you can configure it to use OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, or any other service that speaks the same OpenAI style API, switching between them with command line flags, a slash command inside the tool, or a configuration file. It can also act as a bridge so that other AI tools, such as Claude, can connect to it remotely using the Model Context Protocol. Installing it is meant to be simple: a single command line script for Mac and Linux, an npm package, or a PowerShell command for Windows, all of which download a prebuilt program from the project's GitHub releases. Most common operating systems and chip types are covered, though Intel based Macs are not, and Android support works by running inside a separate terminal app called Termux rather than as a standalone app. For people who want to build it themselves from the source code, the project is written in Rust and needs a couple of specific developer tools installed first, along with a Rust toolchain that gets set up automatically. The codebase is organized into many small pieces, called crates, each handling one part of the system, such as the terminal interface, the underlying agent logic, individual tools, and file or version control handling. The project's own code is released under the Apache 2.0 license, though some parts borrowed from other open source projects, including ports of tool implementations from other coding agent tools, keep their original licenses.