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Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-07-14

xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed.

A researcher publishing as cereblab, testing version 0.2.93, captured one of those uploads, cloned the git bundle out of the intercepted request, and pulled back a file the agent had been told in plain terms not

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-git.html