Run your first batch in 60 seconds

Pick a mode you trust

For your first run, stay in Text to Image — it’s the fastest mode, doesn’t need reference images, and the result is something you can eyeball in a thumbnail.

The mode tiles sit at the very top of the side panel. Text to Image is selected by default; if it isn’t, click it once.

Screenshot pending Five mode tiles across the top of the side panel with Text to Image highlighted

Five generation modes. Text to Image is the simplest because it has no inputs other than the prompt itself.

Paste three prompts

The Prompts section sits below the mode tiles. Paste these three lines into the textarea (note the blank line separators — that’s how the parser knows where one prompt ends and the next begins):

A red panda on a snowy mountain, golden hour, cinematic

A vintage robot eating noodles, soft studio lighting

A neon alleyway in the rain, top-down view

The counter to the right of the Prompts heading should flip to 3 prompts.

Click Run

The big orange button at the bottom is the only thing you need.

Click Run →. The button label changes to Running… and a status row appears beneath each prompt.
The side panel stays open while Grok works in the main tab. You can watch progress in either place.
After about a minute, all three downloads land in your Downloads folder.

Screenshot pending Side panel showing three prompts each in progress with percent indicators

Each prompt shows live percent and a status badge (queued → generating → done).

Find your files

By default, Grok Automation saves into a folder called grok-auto inside your Chrome Downloads directory. Filenames are the prompt text, lightly sanitized, plus an index:

~/Downloads/grok-auto/
  ├── 1_a-red-panda-on-a-snowy-mountain.png
  ├── 2_a-vintage-robot-eating-noodles.png
  └── 3_a-neon-alleyway-in-the-rain.png

If you want a different folder name or prefix, scroll to the Downloads section in the side panel and edit Folder / Filename prefix before your next run. The change is remembered.

What just happened

In one minute you exercised the entire pipeline: queue → submit → wait for generation → download → name. Everything else in the help center is a variation on that loop — more prompts, more modes, references, retries, chains. The core promise is that you click Run once, walk away, and come back to organised files.

Heads up. If one of the three prompts comes back failed (red badge), that’s normal on a busy hour. Click Run again — the button turns into Continue · 1 unfinished and re-runs only the misses, not all three.