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Basement AI tinkerer • local LLMs + 3D printing, laser, woodworking • figuring it out one prompt at a time • Why mow the grass when you can fish the lawn🎣

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PSA for anyone using /loop in @grok Build @xai : Pasting a structured prompt with Unicode box-drawing chars (═, ─) or § into /loop crashes the entire TUI.

Rust panic in scheduler/list.rs:125:47 — byte-index slicing through a UTF-8 char boundary.

Workaround: Use only ASCII separators. [0], [1], - Step 6 - instead of §6 or fancy boxes.

Worse: the corrupted task gets saved in session state → Grok Build will re-crash on every relaunch.

Fix: Manually edit ~/.grok/sessions/<encoded-cwd>/<uuid>/resources_state.json and delete the bad task from state.grok_build.Scheduler.tasks before restarting.

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9/ TL;DR:
Grok Build’s long-run issues are mostly fixable.
State belongs on disk, not in the chat → MANDATE.md + HEARTBEAT.md + a 3-line loop.
The agent rebuilds what it needs from files every cycle.
Verify everything. Trust the filesystem, not the agent’s summary.

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1/ After a few hours grinding with @grok Build, here’s my initial feedback.
Like others have posted: it struggles on long autonomous runs.
But I found a pattern that fixed most of it for me. Sharing it 🧵

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8/ One honest catch:
This keeps the agent ORIENTED. It does not make it HONEST.
I had an agent confidently tell me it finished a task — detailed report, “safety check passed” — and the file had never changed.
So the mandate has to force verification every single cycle.

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Welp, let’s see how this goes 😅

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@LukeTradesz Actions &gt; Words

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@crypto_bitlord7 Keep your head up and mind out of the fog as much as you can man you'll get lost,I lost mine to suicide(hung himself) 3 years ago on fathers day. Take it one day at a time and know whatever pain he was in is now gone, may his soul rest in peace🙏. Stay strong 💪

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@Defi_Ser1980 Anytime 🤝, check out half life Alyx it's probably the best VR game I've played personally, boneworks is fantastic too but it's just a sandbox game

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@Defi_Ser1980 Oh I forgot to add I was doing it on a ryzen 5 3600 &amp; a 1060 6bg so you should be fine with the hardware you have.