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Dev · blog.pragmaticengineer.com · Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Grok coding CLI quietly exfiltrates your repo, .env, and git history

A researcher found xAI's Grok Build CLI uploads every local file, .env secrets, and the full git history to a GCP bucket by default, unredacted and unencrypted, even when told not to read files. The feature stays on despite the opt-out toggle, and xAI reportedly blamed developers.

Read the source: blog.pragmaticengineer.com ↗In the 19 August issue →