Grok-Matic / User Guide

User Guide

This page is written for someone who has never used Grok-Matic before. Read it in order — no technical knowledge required.

01 · Getting started: 4-step setup02 · The panel's four tabs03 · What does everything in the Control tab do?

01 / Getting started: 4-step setup

Getting started: 4-step setup

01

Add the extension to your browser

Search for "Grok-Matic" on the Chrome Web Store and click "Add to Chrome". Once installed, any open Grok tabs refresh on their own — you don't need to do anything.

02

Create a free account

Go to grok-matic.com and click "Create account". You can sign up in seconds with email/password or Google. This is a separate account from your Grok account, specific to Grok-Matic only.

03

Open Grok and find the panel

Go to grok.com and open a project (or an existing one). In the top-right of your browser toolbar, click the Grok-Matic icon — a panel opens on the right side of the screen. This panel only works while you're on the Grok page; clicking the icon on another site does nothing, and that's normal.

04

Write your prompts, click Run

In the panel, write out what you want to generate, one per line. Check the settings, then click the blue "Run" button. If you haven't logged in yet, a small login window will pop up right then — don't worry, your prompts stay put; once you log in, just click "Run" again.

02 / The panel's four tabs

The panel's four tabs

When you open the panel, you'll see four tabs at the top, each with a different purpose:

01Grok-Matic

Control

The main screen with everything we just described — this is where you write and run your requests.

02Grok-Matic

Settings

Set general preferences here once — aspect ratio, which image/video model to use — and you won't need to pick them again each time.

03Grok-Matic

Debug Logs

A technical record of what the extension is doing in the background. If something goes wrong and you contact us, sharing these logs makes it much easier for us to fix.

04Grok-Matic

History

A list of every request you've run before — see which prompt ran when and whether it succeeded, and re-add the same prompt to the queue if you want.

03 / What does everything in the Control tab do?

What does everything in the Control tab do?

This is the main screen where you send requests. Going top to bottom, here's what each section does:

01If you upload more than one image, two new settings appear+

In Frame-to-Video, if you upload more than one image, two new settings show up. Custom Order: you choose which order your images get used in. Say you uploaded 3 photos — you pick which one goes first: the order you set yourself, alphabetical A to Z, or newest upload first. Image Processing Option: this decides how each photo is used in the video. Pick "Use Start frame only" and your photo just becomes the first second of the video, then Grok finishes the rest based on the text you wrote. Pick "Use Start and End frame" and you upload two photos: one becomes the start of the video, the other the end — Grok fills in what happens between them.

02Mode buttons at the top — what do you want to create?+

At the very top of the panel you'll see six buttons: Text to Video, Frame to Video, Ingredients to Video, Text to Image, Image to Image, Agent Automation. Only one can be selected at a time (shown in blue). Simply put: click the button matching what you want to create (video or image, and with what kind of input). All the settings below change based on the mode you pick.

03Concurrent Prompts — how many run at once?+

This number sets how many prompts are processed together at the same time. Set it to 1 and prompts run one after another. Set it to 2 or 3 and more than one is processed at once, finishing faster. But a very high number can burn through your daily Grok quota faster. If unsure, start with 1 or 2.

04Random Delay — wait time between prompts+

Before moving from one finished prompt to the next, the extension waits a random amount of time between the two values you set here (in seconds, e.g. 20 to 30). This wait keeps Grok from being hit with requests too fast, one after another, and helps mimic normal usage. You usually don't need to change the defaults.

05Prompts box — what to generate+

Here you type each thing you want to create, one per line. For example, if one line says "a red car" and the next says "a blue plane", these become two separate, independent prompts in the queue. If a single request spans multiple lines (it's long), leave a blank line between requests so the extension knows where one ends and the next begins. Instead of typing by hand, you can also upload a .txt file or an Excel/.csv file — the extension automatically turns the lines/cells inside into your prompt list.

06Auto-add Character+

If you've already created "characters" in Grok (say, a person/mascot that always looks the same), turning this on makes the extension automatically add that character to a prompt whenever its name appears in the text. For this to work, you first need to click "Scan Characters" so the extension can see your characters.

07Image Mode per Prompt — reuse the last output, or start fresh?+

With "Create new" selected, each request works on its own, using the images you upload. With "Reuse" selected, the image/frame generated by the previous request is automatically used as the input for the next one — meaning generations chain together, one after another (useful for, say, consecutive frames of a story).

08Outputs per Prompt / Save to Folder+

"Outputs per Prompt" sets how many different images/videos each request generates (e.g. set it to 2 and each request produces 2 variations). "Save to Folder" sets which subfolder, under your computer's Downloads folder, the downloaded files go into — leave it blank and they land in the default folder.

09Auto Change File Name / Auto Download+

With "Auto Change File Name" on, downloaded files are saved with readable names (so it's clear which prompt they came from) instead of random ones. If "Auto Download" is off, generated images/videos aren't automatically downloaded to your computer — they only show up on the Grok page, and you download manually if you want.

10Prompt Queue — what's happening right now?+

After clicking "Run", this shows the live status of the requests you sent: which one is still processing, which finished, how many are done. Use the "Stop" button here if you want to halt a run.

11The four buttons at the bottom+

"Report Bug": lets you tell us if something's wrong. "Clear Cache": try this if you see a strange error/warning on the Grok page — it clears and refreshes some of the page's cache and data. "Clear": wipes your written requests and the queue entirely, starting fresh. "Run": sends everything you've written to Grok and starts generating.

04 / Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

The panel doesn't show up on some tabs — is it broken?+

No, that's normal. Grok-Matic is designed to work only on Grok's own page (grok.com). Clicking the extension icon on another site won't open the panel — that's not a bug.

A login screen suddenly popped up when I clicked 'Run' — will my prompts get deleted?+

No, nothing gets deleted. This screen is just a reminder that you need to log in. After logging in, you'll see your prompts still sitting in the box exactly as you left them — just click 'Run' again.

How do I auto-add my characters?+

First click "Scan Characters" in the Control tab so the extension can see the characters in your project. Then turn on the "Auto-add Character" switch. After that, just type the character's name in your prompt and the extension adds it automatically.

Where do I find my downloaded files on my computer?+

Inside your browser's default Downloads folder, in a subfolder named after whatever you entered in the Control tab's "Save to Folder" field. If you left it blank, they're directly in the Downloads folder itself.

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