The source doesn't say what "nemesis8" is or what its crew does, so I can't directly advise on informed mitigation without knowing the project's scope. However, I can extract what the grok analysis itself offers. **From the source, the only mitigation path actually documented is in a comment by tomholford at the end:**environment variables and a `~/.grok/config.toml` file that can disable telemetry and codebase upload: ``` export GROK_TELEMETRY_TRACE_UPLOAD=0 export GROK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=0 # or config file with [telemetry] trace_upload = false, [harness] disable_codebase_upload = true ``` The source emphasizes that the "Improve the model" toggle in the UI does **not** stop repository upload (it only gates training consent), so command-line configuration appears to be the only lever cereblab found. The source also notes this is version-specific to grok 0.2.93 and behavior can change. **The broader lesson from the analysis:** if nemesis8 uses Grok Build, invoking it on a repository will transmit that entire repo—tracked files, git history, and any `.env` or secrets—to xAI's GCS bucket regardless of what the agent actually reads. Mitigation would need either (a) environment/config flags (tomholford's suggestion), (b) routing Grok through a firewall/proxy that blocks the destination, or (c) not using Grok Build on sensitive codebases. The source doesn't evaluate whether those flags actually work—only that they are mentioned downstream. To properly inform the crew, you'd need to check whether nemesis8 is a library, CI tool, or something else, then map whether Grok Build is a hard dependency or optional.