Musk pledges 'total transparency' after xAI's coding agent exposed entire repositories

Elon Musk pledged total transparency for X's codebase after independent AI safety checker Cereblab uncovered that the Grok 4.5-powered Build coding agent was uploading entire Git repositories and commit histories to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI. The billionaire SpaceXAI owner said the codebase would be made open source once the firm has completed a review for security vulnerabilities, with third parties encouraged to examine the system. Musk added that trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed. An exposé posted on GitHub revealed that Grok would bundle files and all independent of what the agent reads, and the coding tool did this for files users explicitly told it not to open, with the feature found to be active by default. SpaceXAI said in a statement that it cares deeply about privacy and respects customer choice. A later post confirmed that data retention has since been switched off by default, with all retained data deleted. The post on social-media platform X stated that with all retained data deleted, retention default off, and an open-source harness, the company is offering complete user privacy. SpaceXAI has also launched a bug bounty program offering developers between $100 and $20,000 in rewards for reporting security vulnerabilities.