Grok

Incomplete and not restorable: 'Download account data' exports account data and conversations as a ZIP of JSON without logic or configuration, and xAI offers no import.

• xAI account data

The account export contains account data and conversation history, but not the executable logic, runtime configuration or anything that identifies the agent, so much of what defines it stays with xAI.

• xAI account data

Grok runs only on xAI's hosted service and current proprietary models; no exported artifact runs on an open-source runtime.

• xAI Terms of Service (Consumer)

The assistant's identity is the user's xAI or X account, and nothing lets others verify it is the same agent without xAI.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

The agent exists only as an xAI-hosted service, so xAI controls its availability and features, and nothing exported runs independently.

• xAI Terms of Service (Consumer)

Memory, Tasks, Companions and connectors are xAI service features and do not survive a move to another model or runtime.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

The account export is JSON, an open format, but Grok's internal state storage is undocumented and the owner cannot access it directly.

• xAI account data

xAI publishes Grok's system prompts in a public GitHub repository. Content injected at runtime, such as memories and tool results, is not fully shown, and the owner cannot confirm the published prompts are the ones in use.

• xai-org/grok-prompts (GitHub)

xAI's privacy policy lists delivering relevant content and targeted advertising among its uses of data, and allows retaining de-identified or pseudonymized conversation data after deletion. That data is outside the owner's inspectable state.

• xAI Privacy Policy
• xAI Consumer FAQs

Conversation history is visible to the owner and included in the export, but xAI documents no complete history of tool calls and Task actions.

• xAI account data

Prompts are published, but Grok's executable logic (tool orchestration, Tasks, Companions) is proprietary server-side code.

• xai-org/grok-prompts (GitHub)

X announced in 2025 that advertisers could pay for placement in Grok's answers, and xAI's privacy policy permits targeted advertising. No primary documentation confirms whether ads appear in consumer Grok today or whether owners can turn them off.

• Engadget: X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers
• xAI Privacy Policy

No durable record of consequential actions is available to the owner; the only visible record is conversation history, which the owner can delete.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

Conversations can be deleted without any detectable trace, and no other way to detect changes to an action record is documented.

• xAI Privacy Policy

xAI does not document whether the agent layer can alter or delete records of its own actions.

• xAI Privacy Policy

The JSON export can be read with ordinary tools, but it is a conversation and account export, not an action audit trail.

• xAI account data

No record of the agent's exchanges with other agents or services is available to the owner, so nothing can be matched against a counterpart's record.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

The Grok service runtime is proprietary. xAI has released some older model weights and publishes prompts, but not the assistant runtime.

• xai-org/grok-prompts (GitHub)

Published prompts cover part of the configuration, but the owner cannot confirm that the served configuration (prompts, model routing, memory injection) matches what is inspectable.

• xai-org/grok-prompts (GitHub)

Recipients have no documented way to verify that a message came from this agent under its owner's authority, independently of xAI.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

No action record with checkable integrity is exposed, so nothing can be verified with open tools independently of xAI.

• xAI Privacy Policy

Much of the agent's state (runtime configuration, memory injection, retained derived data) is held by xAI and not exposed, so the owner cannot verify whether it changed between two points in time.

• xAI account data

The owner can read the published base prompts and add personal customizations and memories, but cannot rewrite the system instructions Grok runs with.

• xai-org/grok-prompts (GitHub)

xAI states that memories are visible and can be forgotten, and memory can be turned off under Data Controls. Editing individual memories is not documented, and data retained outside memory cannot be managed.

• eWeek: Grok can remember conversations now
• xAI Consumer FAQs

The owner can define Tasks in natural language but cannot change Grok's underlying code or workflows.

• xAI Terms of Service (Consumer)

The owner can connect or disconnect the integrations xAI offers, such as Google apps via OAuth, but cannot add arbitrary third-party tools in the consumer app.

• xAI Privacy Policy

The consumer app offers only xAI's own Grok models; local or third-party models cannot be used.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

Changes beyond the settings xAI exposes require xAI's own action, and some features depend on paid subscription tiers.

• xAI Terms of Service (Consumer)

No public documentation was found on whether owners can decide whom Grok's agentic features contact or through which channels, or how that would be enforced.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

No public documentation was found on approval gates for Grok Tasks or connector actions.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

Owners can stop responses in the chat interface, but no primary documentation was found on immediately halting running or scheduled Tasks.

• xAI Consumer FAQs

Content is processed on xAI servers. Training use is controlled by an 'Improve the model' setting rather than an opt-in xAI documents, unauthenticated users in some regions cannot opt out, and voluntarily submitted feedback may still be used for training.

• xAI Consumer FAQs
• xAI Privacy Policy

Google connections use OAuth, which the owner can revoke from their Google account, and xAI commits not to train on Google Apps content. The tokens are held by xAI, cannot be inspected in Grok, and cannot move with the agent.

• xAI Privacy Policy

Deleting conversations or the account removes data within 30 days, except data that has been de-identified or pseudonymized and disassociated from the account, or must be kept for safety, security or legal reasons.

• xAI Consumer FAQs
• xAI Privacy Policy