grok-imagine-agent

name	Grok Imagine Agent
description	Use when driving Grok Imagine Agent Mode on grok.com/imagine (project + infinite canvas) for a multi-shot film. Log every still/video ID from the first generate. Last frame of N is first of N+1. Ask Agent to trim and stitch joins. Spoken video goes through Agent chat with the still attached. Not Studio. Not x.com SuperGrok chat.

Grok Imagine Agent

Drive Imagine Agent Mode at https://grok.com/imagine. URLs look like /imagine/agent/<id> — do not publish private IDs. Three panes: sidebar (projects / history), agent chat (Type to imagine), infinite canvas (dot grid + tools). Different from Studio (/imagine/studio) and SuperGrok chat on x.com/i/grok.

This is the web app in Chrome on this computer. Not a desktop app. Not the user's laptop.

Official Odyssey craft: Odyssey Challenge Cinematic Guide (2026-08-26). Contest deadline August 31. Do not contest-submit without a human yes.

ID ledger (from the first generate)

Every still and every video gets a canvas id the moment it exists. If you skip this, later edits guess thumbnails and joins break.

1. The instant a still or video node appears, write a row: shot number, still UUID, video UUID, take letter, KEEP/CHANGE/DELETE.
2. The ledger lives with the film (CANVAS-MAP.md or equivalent). Update it before the next generate.
3. Click by id, never by a guessed thumbnail.
4. A new take gets a new video id. Do not overwrite the old row — add take-b and keep take-a.
5. Do not invent ids. Truncated ids stay marked INCOMPLETE. Missing ids stay NEED ID.
6. Never publish /imagine/agent/<id> or conversation query strings. Node UUIDs for shots are the working ids.

No generate without a ledger row.

Map the canvas, then edit cut by cut

1. Zoom out until every shot node is visible (25–50%).
2. Map node id → boarded shot. Write the map before you edit.
3. Edit only CHANGE shots. Leave KEEP nodes alone.
4. One cut at a time. Click that still id. Then left Agent chat with that still selected/attached.
5. Still first (Speed → Quality upscale, pores/lines). Spoken video only after the still PASSes, via Agent chat + still. Node one-click Make Video skips the line.
6. Download the new node. Write its new video id. Never overwrite *_LOCK or keeper clips.

Last frame is first frame (do not skip)

Same camera / same location: the last frame of shot N is the first frame of shot N+1.

• Extract last frame (or use Agent "Extract Frame" at the end).
• That image is the start of the next still/video. Prompt: start on this exact frame, then play the new beat.
• New lock still only when camera angle or location actually changes.
• If start/end do not match, the join will slam. That is a skill miss, not a stitch trick.

Ask Agent to trim and stitch

Imagine Agent can trim and stitch. Ask it. Do not hard-concat locally as the first answer.

Name the join, the two video ids, and the transition:

• Same location: last-frame match, or a short dissolve. "Start shot N+1 on the last frame of video <id>."
• Location change: a real cut or a named fade (e.g. 0.6s cave-mouth → ritual).
• Line ends → shades: trim the tail of the spoken take, then emerge from shadow into the next still — not a slam to OTS.
• Never close→wide on the same face. Hold size or cut away.
• Composer submits on every newline: stitch asks are one line.

Example one-liner: Stitch video <id-A> then video <id-B> start B on the last frame of A trim the tail of A so the join is continuous same cave no slam

ffmpeg pairwise xfade is a fallback after Agent stitch is refused or Picture FAILs the Agent join. It is not the default.

Official still → video

Do not write “cinematic” and stop. Name shot size, angle, move, lens.

1. Aim.
2. Speed Mode still.
3. Quality Mode upscale (pores, fine lines).
4. Animate with omni-reference.
5. Prompt like a director: shot / doing / speech / remember. No music.

Two video paths (do not mix)

Spoken — Agent chat

Attach the selected canvas still. 1080p, 6/10/15s, Audio ON. Exact line. No extra words. Never into lens. NO MUSIC.

Silent — canvas tap on that node is fine

Audio OFF. One job.

While it runs

• Stay on the live agent tab. One Chrome. One job.
• Download when the node is done. Size >1MB. Log the new id.

Do not

• Use Studio if Agent + canvas is live.
• Hard-concat or local xfade before asking Agent to trim/stitch.
• Skip last-frame handoff on a same-location join.
• Generate without writing the still/video id.
• Fire a second generate while one is Generating.
• Publish private /imagine/agent/<id> or conversation IDs.
• Invent scenes. Human pass locks keepers.
• Contest-submit without a human yes.