Use Grok CLI with abliteration.ai

To use Grok CLI with abliteration.ai, add a custom model in ~/.grok/config.toml with base_url set to https://api.abliteration.ai/v1, an abliteration.ai model ID, and your ak_... key in an environment variable. Grok CLI is xAI’s open-source terminal coding agent. When a model’s base_url is not xAI’s endpoint, Grok CLI sends requests through its OpenAI-compatible backend, so no adapter is required.

Prerequisites

Grok CLI installed. See the Grok Build repository.
An ak_... key from the console.

Configure

Add a custom model to ~/.grok/config.toml:

[model.abliterated-large-v2]
model = "abliterated-model-large-v2"
base_url = "https://api.abliteration.ai/v1"
name = "Abliterated Model Large V2"
api_backend = "chat_completions"
env_key = "ABLITERATION_API_KEY"
context_window = 1000000

api_backend selects the request protocol. Use chat_completions for the OpenAI-compatible path; abliteration.ai also serves responses and an Anthropic-compatible messages backend. env_key names the environment variable Grok CLI reads the key from, so the key is not stored in the config file. Export the key:

export ABLITERATION_API_KEY="ak_YOUR_API_KEY"

To make it the default model, add:

[models]
default = "abliterated-large-v2"

Run

Start Grok CLI and confirm the model is available:

grok models

Select the model for a single prompt:

grok -p "Say hello in one sentence." -m abliterated-large-v2

In an interactive session, switch models with /model abliterated-large-v2 or press Ctrl+M.

Choose a model

Model	Use it for	`context_window`
`abliterated-model-large-v2`	Recommended for source code and text-driven agent work	`1000000`
`abliterated-model`	Tasks that need image inputs	`262144`
`abliterated-model-large`	Compatibility with the previous large model	`1000000`

abliterated-model-large-v2 is text-only. Use abliterated-model if the agent needs to read images. See models for the full capability and context-window comparison.

Notes

All abliteration.ai models reason by default. See thinking and reasoning effort.
Published policies scoped to the key’s project apply to every Grok CLI request. See Policies.
The live model list is available from GET /v1/models. See models.

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Use Grok CLI with abliteration.ai

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Configure

Run

Choose a model

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​Run

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Prerequisites

Configure

Run

Choose a model

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