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Building with the Grok API
The working set of the xAI API: system prompts, structured output, retrieval, agents, streaming, and production spend.
5 lessons · 1 quiz · 1 hrCompletion badge
For: Developers who can already send a chat completion (see Grok Platform 101).
What you’ll walk out with
- Design a system prompt that stays small and testable
- Get JSON you can schema-validate
- Wire retrieval without dumping the corpus
- Stream, cap, and log a user-facing feature
Lessons
- 01System prompts that survive contactShort, testable instructions beat a novel.12 min
- 02Structured outputIf code will consume it, do not parse vibes.12 min
- 03Retrieval, not a bigger pasteFetch the slice, then ask.12 min
- 04Agents are loopsA model, tools, and a stop condition. That is the whole diagram.12 min
- 05Streaming and the last mileTokens on the wire, humans on the other end.10 min
- QBuilding with the Grok API quiz4 questions