{"slug": "grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket", "title": "Grok Build CLI accused of uploading Git repos to a Google Cloud bucket", "summary": "XAI's Grok Build CLI was found uploading entire Git repositories, including private codebases and unredacted secrets, to a Google Cloud bucket. The uploads were only stopped via a hidden server-side flag after a researcher's analysis, and xAI has not disclosed the scope, retention, or deletion of the data.", "body_md": "‼️ BREAKING: xAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, private codebases and unredacted secrets included. The uploads quietly stopped via a hidden server-side flag, and xAI still has not said a word about scope, retention, or deletion.\nThe scale is staggering. On a 12 GB test repo, 5.1 GB flew out the door to xAI's grok-code-session-traces bucket while the actual coding task needed just 192 KB. The tool grabbed whatever repository it ran in, not the files it needed.\nThe fix arrived as a hidden flag, disable_codebase_upload: true, a day after a researcher's wire-level analysis. The \"Improve the model\" opt-out never stopped the uploads.\nStill no advisory, no scope, no word on whether already-uploaded code gets deleted. For anyone pointing AI coding agents at proprietary code, what crosses the wire matters more than what the settings page says.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/i/status/2076689215258014069", "published_at": "2026-07-14 09:28:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-14 09:48:28.362193+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-ethics", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["xAI", "Grok Build CLI", "Google Cloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-build-cli-accused-of-uploading-git-repos-to-a-google-cloud-bucket.jsonld"}}