What is grokx?

Grokx is an open source desktop application that gives you a chat window for talking with the Grok AI model and using it for coding help. It wraps a bundled copy of the Grok Build engine inside a clean, light colored interface similar in style to OpenAI's Codex app, so you get a native looking desktop program instead of a website or terminal tool. The app lets you create separate tasks, each with its own chat history and its own working folder, and you can switch between tasks while work keeps running in the background on the ones you leave. You can open a real project folder so new tasks work inside your actual code, or start a temporary task with no folder for quick questions. Inside a chat you can paste text and images, pick which model to use, adjust how much reasoning effort the AI applies, edit and resend previous prompts, and see a collapsible trace of the AI's thinking and tool use. Permission settings let you control whether the AI needs your approval before taking actions, runs automatically, or is fully trusted. Grokx is built with Tauri, which combines a Rust backend with a React based user interface, and it talks to the underlying Grok engine as a separate isolated process rather than mixing the two together. This keeps the desktop app itself lightweight while still giving it full access to the AI engine's capabilities. The project currently only publishes a ready made installer for Apple Silicon Macs. Windows and Linux users, as well as people on Intel Macs, need to download the source code and build it themselves, though the underlying technology stack works on all three operating systems. Building from source requires Rust, Node.js, and platform specific build tools. Both the app itself and the underlying engine are released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows free use, modification, and redistribution as long as the license terms are followed. The project keeps your API keys and settings stored locally on your own machine rather than inside the repository.