Codex's hand tests (2026-10-29): at denoise 0.55-0.75 the repainted hand
filled its whole mark and came out too big, at 0.4 it kept its size. The
crop-and-stitch block now repaints at 0.45 (the built-in one at 0.5), and
its next step and the inpaint note tell the AI to mark tightly, keep the
strength low, make 4 tries and let the user pick.
Slider and picks blocks take a zoom {x, y, w, h}: every picture shows
only that part, enlarged, from the picture itself. The checks of block
parts move to ai_panel_parts.py (ai_panels.py was at the 600-line line).
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The 18 blocks are grouped into 7 uses (a block's "job": repaint,
new_background, upscale, refine, follow, detail, process); a block that is
not its use's default has a "want" word (best, 2x, pose, ...).
add_nodes(use=…, want=…) has reference_blocks.pick choose the first by rank
this ComfyUI can run (packs and models present, not turned off), the block
taking a second picture when one is given; block= by name still works.
begin_task's directory is a line a use with its wants, the rest by what it
needs ("LanPaint: repaint best"), so it no longer grows with the blocks and
the word budget tiers are gone. Tried live: use=new_background with two
pictures built place_in_scene.
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- tags_from_picture: WD14 tagger (the source's model and thresholds) on a
picture the user handed; run_status now carries what nodes showed as words
(texts: a tagger's tags), with a summary and next step for a run that made
words but no pictures.
- Optional nodes: a block node marked optional goes when its pack is missing,
and a link "match|decode" takes the first one there. The four upscales end in
KJNodes' ColorMatch (mkl, the source's) when it is installed; the panel says
"better with" it otherwise.
- LanPaint's next step keeps the prompt about the whole picture; Follow a pose
says OpenPose misreads anime (use control_depth), as the source's author did.
- The directory has a size cap: past it, block names alone, so collected ways
never make begin_task long; shorter headings and few-word lines.
Live-tested on the isolated 8199 ComfyUI: LanPaint (area changed 14.6, outside
0.0, 82 s), tiled 2x (167 s), depth ControlNet (follows the layout), OpenPose
(misreads an anime picture), background removal (8 s), tags (166 s with the
model download), upscale with ColorMatch (73 s).
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A block node can be "like" a role (takes its settings) or "replace" it (its
links, place and settings too; LanPaint's sampler for the KSampler). $save is
the output node the picture reaches, past a stitch. Upscale blocks take an
upscale model this ComfyUI has; control blocks a ControlNet whose base fits the
canvas's model, and the picture to follow copied into the input folder. The
directory is grouped by job, a few words a block, to keep begin_task short.
Drop-down choices are read in both forms of ComfyUI's node list.
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api/reference_blocks.py holds groups distilled from workflows that do
one job well: a repaint that crops around the mark, repaints at 1024
and stitches back (ComfyUI-Inpaint-CropAndStitch), the same with
built-in nodes only, and face and hand detailing (Impact Pack, the
detector models this ComfyUI has). begin_task hands the AI their
directory; add_nodes(block=...) builds one in one call. Its links name
roles web/modules/canvas_roles.js finds on the canvas by their sockets
(the sampler, its decode and save, what feeds an input upstream), so
canvas_wiring splices it into the workflow there; several samplers
need near_node_id, a missing pack names the pack and the stand-in.
The repaint note now points to the block. Checked on the test ComfyUI:
the repaint changed the marked area only, the detailer the face area.
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- An AI app calling by an older tool list (tool_help or use_tool not offered,
use_tool for a tool offered directly, a tool the list lacks) is told so, and
the task header shows how to reconnect until the app fetches tools/list again.
- add_lora / set_model compare the base models on the model line
(model_advice.py; the page reports the line) and add base_model_note.
- get_model gives author_examples (sampler, steps, CFG, size, a LoRA's weight
from the Civitai record's example pictures) and the version name.
- run_workflow says ComfyUI's refusal as which node, what is wrong and the tool
that fixes it (run_refusal.py; mcp_run.js passes the refusal as data).
- Gates "When I don't answer": wait for me, or go with the recommendation once
the waiting time runs out (choices with a recommended option only), handed to
the AI in the same call and shown on the stage and under Decisions.
- A tool budget test (count, size, description length, required arguments) and
the exam tasks with their scorecard (docs/architecture/tool-exam.md,
tools/tool_exam.mjs). The tool set's text recommends Full for Antigravity.
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The user's marks are rough. propose_repaint_area takes the AI's area for
them (boxes or ellipses, grown and softened by pixels), draws both areas
tinted over the picture into the task's marks folder and shows them side
by side on a panel (block "area"): the AI's, the user's own, or marking
again, or words on what to change. The picked area is written into the
input folder like the user's own mask (ai_marks.write_inpaint, soft edges
kept) before the answer is recorded, so the AI reads inpaint_image and the
inpaint note with it. Building the repaint stays the AI's: the note names
the usual nodes, no template. Options Anomalous makes carry a page word
(label_key). The panel hint and guide say "Your call".
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- The daily tool set now also offers tool_help and use_tool, and the
directory marks the tools reached that way; show_panel joins the daily
set. The "lazy" set is gone: a small model spent a third of its calls
looking tools up and never built what it planned.
- Gates window "Waiting for your answer" (1, 3 or 10 minutes): an open
question tells the AI to wait on with get_answers until then, and while
the user types (POST /anomalous/ai_tasks/{id}/typing) until a minute after
the last key. report and show_panel remind the AI to end each round with
ask_user; a question written in a note is pointed to ask_user.
- "Skip this one" is "Your call": the AI decides and does not ask again.
- ComfyUI's own `$$` widgets (the canvas image preview) are no longer
reported to the AI as the user's canvas change.
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The AI's question waits at least 30 s, so an answer the user gives in
Anomalous right away reaches the same call and the AI goes on without a word
in its chat (Gemini asked with wait_seconds 0, stopped, and the user had to
say "go on"). add_node's description points to add_nodes for a group of
nodes wired to each other.
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In the user's real tasks the AI spent many calls finding its way: reading the
canvas, searching node types, looking at combos and the activity log. The
directory gives it what ARCHITECTURE.md gives the code: each tool offered,
under its stage of the work, with its title. The stages are run, canvas,
models, prompts, combos, pictures, voices, the library, and the task and the
user. Seeing it, the AI can go straight to the tool it needs.
The directory is built from action_catalog's stages and the tool specs, so a
new tool shows up by itself, and a test checks that every stage has a heading.
It lists only the tools offered: about 1,100 characters for the daily set and
2,000 for the full one. begin_task's answer carries it, and so does
get_situation's while there is no task. The server's instructions and
begin_task's note point to it.
retext, the helper that rewrites a result's text from its data, moves from
ai_task_runs to mcp_tools, so both modules share it.
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The descriptions of the daily set are rewritten without the repeats and
roundabout phrasing. Their rules and don'ts stay: no cropping or editing
pictures with code, no reading ComfyUI's folders, ask the user in the
workbench. So do the shared property texts: the query words, node ids, the
task id. tools/list for the daily set drops from about 27,300 to 22,200
characters, and the full one from 46,000 to 40,700. begin_task's note, read at
the start of every task, drops from about 1,900 to 900 characters. The
replacements were made with ast, so each description's adjacent literals
changed as one.
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In the user's real tasks, nearly every run ended with get_image_info, then
show_panel, then report: one extra call just to fetch the picture. The answer
that first tells the AI its run ended now carries up to four thumbnails of the
run's pictures (pictures_attached). That answer can be run_status, run_workflow's
own wait, or any other tool's answer.
It happens once per run. status() and news() mark the run when they first tell
its end, and show_pictures, called for every answer in mcp_server, attaches the
pictures to the marked run and clears the mark. Runs told of before this change
carry no mark, so they never bring old pictures along. The done `next` now says
to report with the pictures and to use a panel only to compare or ask. tell()
and show_pictures share _retext.
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A small model plans poorly but follows a line well. begin_task,
run_workflow and run_status, add_node, connect_nodes and remove_nodes,
and an answered ask_user now carry next: the one thing to do now (wait
again, look at the pictures and report, wire what is still unwired, find
the missing model). The run's per-state note becomes that next.
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A small model lost its way wiring the canvas: describe_canvas says what
feeds each input but not what is still free or what fits it, so it
looked up every node type and kept the graph in mind, and long answers
were filed away by Antigravity for the AI to open.
get_situation (mcp_situation.py) gives the task (what the user asked
last, what waits for them, decisions, pictures, steps outside AMB), the
canvas in brief (mcp_canvas_brief.js: a line per node, the inputs a run
needs that nothing feeds yet with the outputs that fit, ComfyUI's
errors), the latest run and the next step, kept under 3,600 characters.
add_node, connect_nodes and remove_nodes answer with what is still
unwired. The connect sentence, the rules and the instructions point a
new chat to get_situation first.
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Anomalous sees only the calls made to it; an AI app's own commands and
scripts are invisible, and one rewrote a result six times. When the AI
calls, Anomalous now looks at the top of the output and input folders
for pictures no ComfyUI run saved and pictures rewritten in place since
its previous call (by the files' own times, bounded, never in the
background; new pictures wait while a prompt runs), shows them as an
"Outside AMB" step and tells the AI with its answer (ai_outside.py).
log_outside is the AI's own word on a command or script it ran.
The connect guide gains rules to paste into the AI app's own rules:
use AMB's tools, change pictures only by running workflows, ask and
explain in AMB, and say what was done outside it.
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A progress block on an AI panel is the AI's own number and never moves.
An AI drew one at 12% during a run, came back after the run with a new
panel and left the old bar standing, which read as live progress. Once
the task goes past a bar without an update (a run ends, a later panel or
note, the task ends), the stage now draws it grey and says when it was
written; update_panel records when a panel's blocks changed. The tool
text tells the AI a run's real progress shows already.
run_status before any run answers state "none" instead of failing, so a
task no longer shows a failed step for asking.
In a wide window the task column keeps its content to about 880 px in
its middle, as chat apps do, instead of stretching across the window.
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In one hour Gemini ran 63 shell commands next to 23 AMB calls: checking files, cropping and
comparing parts of pictures, running OpenPose itself to see a skeleton, and painting pixels
with OpenCV (it overwrote an output picture six times).
- api/mcp_look.py zoom_image: part of a picture in the output, input or temp folder shown
larger, the same part of a second picture beside it; read only.
- get_image_info reads the temp folder too; run_status lists a run's PreviewImage pictures
(ai_task_runs.outputs_of(record, "temp"), kept as the step's previews, not its results).
- begin_task and the repaint note: AMB's tools cover looking; change pictures only by running
workflows, never by editing picture files with code of one's own.
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Antigravity saves a tool result over about 4,000 characters to a file and has Gemini open it;
in one evening 16 of its 32 file reads were AMB results (describe_canvas 9 times). Results are
now compact JSON (mcp_tools.tool_text, also for attached answers and run status), the canvas
leaves out the page's own "$$" widgets, and recent_activity gives the last 10 by default.
begin_task also tells the AI that AMB's tools cover models, pictures, nodes, canvas and runs,
so it need not read ComfyUI's folders, source or routes (each asks the user to allow it).
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- model_kind: Anima LLLite, Qwen-Image block-wise and Z-Image Fun ControlNets (and other
ModelPatchLoader files) go to model_patches, not controlnet; import and Tidy follow.
- api/mcp_model_use.py: search_models / get_model say which node types load each model, or
where a misfiled one belongs; move_model moves it there behind a new "files" gate (asks by
default, never overwrites).
- An empty drop-down in add_node says ComfyUI found no file; the task tab switch is no longer
logged as the user's canvas change.
- The folded task list stays while the pointer is in the box around its button and the list.
- The message box's picture button picks gallery pictures; "@" offers the gallery's newest and
searches it as you type.
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A new task an AI begins while on another, or one the user starts while
looking at a task, keeps it as its "from". Links under the title lead both
ways, the list marks follow-ups, the user can link one by hand or take the
link off (never a loop), and an AI beginning a follow-up hears what was
decided in the task before.
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The AI records what was settled with log_decision (a card on the timeline:
what, why, what was left out, who decided, the steps it is about); the
user's own choices in Anomalous count as decisions too (panel answers,
gates, materials, the canvas mode, stops). A Decisions view in the side
column lists them all, links each to its step and notes work done since
the AI's last one; begin_task repeats them to an AI picking the task up.
A step's words move to ui_ai_step_body.js.
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"@" lists the task's pictures, combos, models, workflows, prompts, node
packs and node types; what is named rides with the message and the AI gets
each in full (pictures attached with what made them). "/" lists commands
that act at once (stop, undo, side views, new task, canvas mode) or fill in
words to send. get_toolbox shares the lookup.
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A pack shown in the nodes' second column has a bar to pick it whole
(packs, by folder). The AI gets its node types in get_toolbox and finds
them first; with "only" every node of the pack is allowed.
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Every answer, message, set of marks and handed picture shows a pill:
sent and waiting, then the AI has it with the time it did (delivered_at).
Panel questions can be skipped; the AI reads skipped: true.
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- Each run keeps its shape read from the prompt ComfyUI queued (ai_run_map.py): boxes by role
with their settings, typed links, plumbing wired through, and what changed since the task's
run before. The run step shows a one-line summary, the changes as chips and the boxes (top
down, fitted to the column, each locating its node); show_run_map puts it on the stage.
- By default the AI works in a tab of the task's own (ai_task_canvas.py, mcp_task_tab.js): the
open workflow is copied before its first change, the tab is brought back (a click on
ComfyUI's tab) before later changes, reads and runs, and the user's tab stays untouched.
Per-task switch in the header, default in the Gates window; the AI is told once.
- Output pictures can be handed to the task an AI is on (gallery card menu, the inspector's
✦), with the user's words: the AI gets them attached with what made them (ai_pictures.py).
search_images(with_pictures) attaches the first six.
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- A stop button on a running run (timeline, and beside the run-status button), and stop_run for
the AI: only this run's prompts leave the queue or are interrupted; the step ends "cancelled"
and a user's stop reaches the AI as a "stop" message (ai_run_control.py).
- The run's progress carries ComfyUI's console since it began (the bar's note, models loading),
time left and per step, and VRAM; once queued, each sampler's working size is estimated from
the prompt, with warnings for an upscaled picture sampled again, a size past the card and a
huge decode, for the user and in the AI's run news (ai_run_watch.py, ui_ai_run_live.js).
- The materials picker opens as a side panel that leaves the page usable (the full-screen
browser makes room), expands to the large window and back, and remembers the choice.
- Esc closes the run-status card only (data-anomalous-escape).
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report takes reply_to, the id of the user's message or marks it answers:
the two steps point at each other and the timeline links them both ways
("Reply to step 2" / "The AI replied · step 4"). The AI's notes are laid
out (headings, lists, bold, code) by ai_text_format.js with textContent
only. The notice that brings the user's marks and messages, the report
description and the server instructions tell the AI to answer in
Anomalous, and to ask which fix with ask_user.
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ask_user shows a question in the AI workbench (options with an optional
recommended one, and unless other=false a line for an answer of the
user's own; no options: a line) and waits in the same call for the
answer, returning the choice or the text. Choices blocks gain
recommended and other; the step is named ask_user ("Asked you"). The
server instructions, begin_task and the workbench prompt tell the AI to
ask every question this way, never in its own chat.
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A large window: one search over every kind (/ jumps to it), kinds on the
left with picks and matches, a column by source (each custom node pack
with a badge of its own colour, ComfyUI's own, paid API nodes), prompt
origin or model type, a card grid drawn as it scrolls, the card in focus
in full on the right, and the picks below with thumbnails and a prefer /
only switch. A node card is the node in miniature, sockets in ComfyUI's
colours; combos, workflows and models show their covers; prompts their
text, including the prompts inside combos and workflows (combo:<name>,
workflow:<name>), which get_toolbox now resolves. Vector icons, badges
and the empty picture follow the theme.
It opens at once: node types come from the page's own definitions, the
rest in one answer (api/ai_toolbox_catalog.py) read ahead when a task
header is drawn and kept a minute, refreshed behind an open window.
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A Materials button on each AI task opens a picker: every node type of this
ComfyUI grouped by source (built-in, each custom node pack from
/object_info's python_module, page-only helpers, paid API nodes last), plus
combos, saved workflows, prompts and models by the names the AI's tools
use. Picks go to the AI as a user_toolbox step (message kind toolbox), in
begin_task and in full from get_toolbox; "only" makes add_node and
new_workflow refuse other custom or paid node types (built-in stay
allowed). Favourites stand in for tasks without picks. find_nodes lists
picks first and marks paid API nodes. open_workflow opens a saved
workflow in a new tab; a workflow's page can hand it to the AI.
Checked on the isolated ComfyUI with copies of the user's 10 node packs:
all 1642 node types can be placed, and a Comfyroll workflow ran.
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The bar under a run shows a percent like ComfyUI's tab title (the running
node's steps, else the nodes done). While a run goes, every other tool answer
carries your_run with one sentence on where it stands, and the next answer
after it ends says so once (run_status telling it counts), so the AI need not
look in the output folder or at the screen.
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- ui_ai_marker.js: ✎ on a picture of the AI page opens the marker (box, circle, arrow, pen; three
colours; a note per mark and one for the whole picture). Send draws the marks onto the picture
and hands both to the task; the timeline shows the marked picture and the notes.
- api/ai_marks.py: the PNG is checked (signature, size, dimensions) and kept with the task in
anomalous/ai_marks/ (never the output folder; removed with the task); a user_marks step the AI
gets as a message of kind "marks", where each mark is in fractions of the picture, with the
marked picture attached as an image to the same answer (also from get_answers, whose tool now
returns the answer and those pictures).
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- ai_task_runs.py reads where a run stands from ComfyUI's queue and progress registry (never
changing them): queued and how many are ahead, or the node running, its steps and the nodes
done. It is kept on the step in memory and sent as "progress" events that only move the
step's bar; the run's step is saved only when something new is kept.
- run_status (read-only): the task's latest run and its progress, its pictures once done;
wait_seconds (<= 55) waits for the end. run_workflow's answer tells the AI to use it instead
of guessing from the time.
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- ui_ai_handoff.js: "Hand to AI" on a model's page, the image inspector (✦) and combo cards.
The user says what they want (prefilled), Anomalous starts a waiting task with `about` (the
model_id, the output image, the combo's name; checked in ai_tasks.start_task) and shows the
sentence to send the AI; begin_task hands `about` to the AI so it needs no search.
- The AI windows sit above the image inspector they can open from; going to the AI page from
there closes the inspector.
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- api/action_catalog.py: every MCP tool's kind, stage of the work and gate in one place (a test
keeps it and the tools in step); steps now carry their stage.
- api/ai_task_changes.py: changes the user makes in Anomalous while an AI works become steps of
its task, reach the AI once with its next call (kind "change": keep it), and the activity
entry names the task; the activity page links to it ("AI task ->").
- api/ai_task_runs.py: run watching moved out of ai_tasks.py (600-line rule); a step a restart
left "running" is marked stopped when the record is read again.
- Pictures: inspector / compare with canvas / keep as tools on hover instead of three buttons
under every picture; tick any two (any step or task) and compare from the bar at the foot of
the page; the results strip shows thumbnails again.
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A box under a task's timeline sends the user's message (POST
/anomalous/ai_tasks/{id}/message), kept as a 'user' step; get_answers now
also brings the user's messages and, with no panel named, waits for one.
The step says whether the AI has seen it; when the task has ended the box
says to ask in the AI app. The task list is grouped by day with an icon
for where each task stands.
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New panel blocks, data only and drawn by Anomalous: marks on pictures
(circles or boxes at fractions of the picture, numbered, labels under it
that zoom there), a before / after slider, picks (pictures with the AI's
reason, Take this one as an answer, Put on the canvas through ComfyUI's
own file loading, drag onto the canvas) and diagrams (boxes and arrows laid
out by ai_stage_layout.js; a box naming a canvas node finds it). No SVG
or drawing code of the AI's is taken.
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show_panel lays out a panel as a step of the AI's task from fixed blocks
(heading, text, pictures in a row, grid or side by side, the user's models
as cards with covers, table, list, params, progress, divider) and can ask:
buttons (one or several) and a line of text. api/ai_panels.py checks every
block (only these kinds, bounded plain text, pictures only from the output
folder, models only from the user's folders); nothing is run or read as
markup, and ui_ai_panel.js writes text only. Answers come in through
POST /anomalous/ai_tasks/{id}/answer and wait for get_answers (which can
wait up to 55 s); update_panel changes or closes a panel. A toast says
when a panel comes while the browser is elsewhere.
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A new rail page keeps each MCP call as a step of a task (api/ai_tasks.py,
one file per task in the user folder, the newest 300): named by the AI
with the new begin_task tool, else one app's calls without a long pause.
A step keeps what it did and what it made (models, the combo, the canvas
change by its activity entry, the pictures a run made, watched in the
history until it ends, spoken audio, scans); the new report tool leaves
the AI's notes and pictures it made another way. The page shows the tasks
and one task's results strip and timeline with links (picture viewer,
model page, combo, find or undo on the canvas, audio), updates live, and
gives the rail a dot while you are elsewhere; Home lists the last tasks.
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