Terminal UI (TUI) for Grok Build. Provides the interactive full-screen interface
including the scrollback view, prompt input, session management, and all modal
dialogs.
Architecture
src/
├── app/ # Application state and event handling
│ ├── app_view.rs # Top-level state (welcome screen, agents, config)
│ ├── agent_view/ # Per-session agent view (struct in mod.rs + per-domain impl modules)
│ ├── dispatch/ # Action → Effect dispatcher (router + per-domain modules)
│ ├── effects.rs # Async side effects (ACP calls, file I/O)
│ └── event_loop.rs # Main event loop (input, ticks, ACP messages)
├── views/ # UI components
│ ├── prompt_widget.rs # Text editor with file search, slash, history
│ ├── welcome/ # Welcome screen (logo, menu, prompt)
│ ├── extensions_modal.rs # Extensions modal (hooks, plugins, marketplace, skills, MCP servers)
│ ├── file_search/ # @-completion dropdown and line viewer
│ ├── slash_dropdown.rs# /command completion dropdown
│ └── ... # Scrollback, status bar, panes, etc.
├── scrollback/ # Message history rendering
├── slash/ # Slash command registry and built-in commands
├── appearance/ # Theme and pager.toml config
├── acp/ # Agent Communication Protocol client state
└── render/ # Low-level rendering helpers (color, wrapping, etc.)
Key Concepts
- AppView — owns the welcome screen, agent sessions, and global config
- AgentView — one per session; owns the prompt, scrollback, tool panes, and modals
- PromptWidget — text editor component with file search (
@), slash commands (/), history search, and paste elements
- Action/Effect — Elm-style architecture: input → Action → dispatch → Effect → state update
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Key |
Context |
Action |
Ctrl+P or ? |
Agent screen |
Open command palette |
Ctrl+L |
Any (non–VS Code family) |
Open plugins/hooks modal; on VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf / Zed use /plugins or /hooks (Ctrl+L is mid-turn interject) |
Tab |
Prompt |
Switch to scrollback |
Esc |
Turn running |
Cancel — in minimal mode or with vim scrollback mode off (the default). Fullscreen vim mode: no-op (use Ctrl+C) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, non-empty prompt |
Clear prompt (within 800ms; first press shows hint) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, empty prompt + messages |
Open rewind picker (silent first press) |
Ctrl+M |
Prompt |
Toggle multiline mode |
Shift+Enter |
Prompt |
Insert newline |
/ |
Prompt |
Start slash command |
@ |
Prompt |
Start file search |
! |
Prompt (empty) |
Enter bash mode |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (with text) |
Clear prompt (even while turn running) |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (empty) + turn running |
Cancel running turn |
Ctrl+B |
Agent screen + foreground command running |
Send the command to the background |
Ctrl+G |
Agent screen (full TUI) |
Toggle the tasks pane |
Ctrl+G |
Ordinary composer (minimal mode) |
Edit the draft externally; use the command-palette entry if the chord is reserved |
Docs
- Terminal Support & Troubleshooting — tmux/SSH truecolor, clipboard, mouse, diagnostics,
/doctor
- Hooks & Plugins Guide — managing hooks, plugins, and marketplace sources
- Custom Hooks Guide — creating, configuring, and writing your own hooks
- Hook Examples — sample hooks for common workflows
- Hooks Crate (
xai-grok-hooks) — hook runtime, event types, and execution engine
- Plugin Marketplace Crate (
xai-grok-plugin-marketplace) — marketplace source loading, scanning, and install
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