Three or more reads, canvas changes and decisions in a row, two of them not
reads, become one row: how many steps, chips of what they did, the last one
while the AI is at it, and undo for their canvas changes. It opens to the
steps as before, and a jump to one of them opens it. Words, notes,
questions, panels, runs, errors and waiting or running steps stay rows of
their own. The folded rows move to ui_ai_chain.js.
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When the AI is not in a call, a run or a question, the AI workbench offers a
line to copy into the AI's chat, picked by what waits for it: the run that
ended, a reply in Anomalous it has not got yet, else "Go on", and a line
that picks the task up in a new chat. The lines under a finished run's step
move there. The Hand to AI sentence no longer names show_panel.
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A third choice for "Tools for the AI" in the Gates window. With "On demand",
AI apps are offered only action_catalog.CORE plus two tools of
mcp_directory.py:
- CORE: begin_task, get_situation, run_workflow, run_status, report, ask_user,
get_answers.
- tool_help: the description and arguments of up to three tools named in the
directory.
- use_tool: calls any tool of the directory.
tools/list drops to 11 tools and about 9,000 characters (daily 22,200, full
40,700). With this set the directory begin_task brings names every tool and
says how to reach the ones not listed.
use_tool has no run of its own. mcp_server._call makes the call the tool it
names before anything else, so the user's gates, the timeline's step, the run
watch and the answer are all that tool's; the timeline never shows use_tool.
An unknown name, the card's own tools or wrong arguments come back as tool
errors that point to tool_help.
The default stays Full. Switching back to Daily or Full in the Gates window
undoes this without a revert, and this commit stands alone if it has to go.
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Waiting on runs was the biggest share of the AI's calls in the user's real
tasks (85 of 316 run_status calls, about ten per ten-minute run). A new Gates
setting, "Waiting for runs", defaults to "Tell AI when done" (ai_gates.run_wait,
stored beside the tool set in ai_tools.json).
In that mode:
- run_workflow still waits its 15 s, so a short run comes back done with its
pictures.
- Otherwise the answer's note, `next` and the your_run sentence tell the AI to
say the run is going and end its turn, not to wait with run_status.
run_status still honours wait_seconds, so a model that polls anyway is no
worse off than before.
When the run ends before the AI knows, the server marks the step `call_ai`. The
workbench then shows lines to copy into the AI's chat (ui_ai_call.js): "It's
done, take a look", "Again with another seed", "Go on", or "It failed, find out
why". The mark goes as soon as the AI is told, or when a newer run starts, and
the lines go with it. The AI's next call brings the result and the pictures.
"AI waits" keeps the old behaviour. The setting takes effect at once, because
the words are made for each answer.
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In one real task the AI built an inpaint branch with 9 add_node and 16
connect_nodes calls. add_nodes takes the whole group in ComfyUI's API form, the
format models know best:
- links inside the group, and to canvas nodes as "#12", with outputs by slot
or name;
- a node's wire_to feeds canvas nodes the way add_node does.
All of it is checked before anything changes. The page lays the group out as
one block in a free spot (canvas_build.placedBlock) and applies it in one
transaction: one Ctrl+Z step, and a failure takes every new node out again
(applyWires now takes several nodes). The answer maps the AI's keys to node ids
and lists what is spliced and what is still unwired.
A splice now uses only an input that nothing else in the plan feeds. A node
whose latent comes from the group, or from wire_from, replaces the sampler's
empty latent instead (replace:true) rather than being fed twice. It is in the
daily tool set.
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run_workflow's blanks were a fixed list (prompt, seed, size, image). Anything
else meant a set_values call per node, or yet another blank. Now `values`, on
run_workflow and on set_values without a node, sets any setting by its name, a
third-party node's too.
- The one node that has the setting gets it.
- When several nodes have it (a hires fix's two samplers), nothing changes and
the nodes are listed, so the AI names one: {"12": {"denoise": 0.5}}.
- One Ctrl+Z step for all of them.
The remaining blanks are roles (which prompt box, which latent), not setting
names. `prompt` now stops when several positive prompt boxes are combined into
one sampler (regional prompts) instead of giving them all one text. A refiner's
own prompt still gets it.
The scalar check moves from mcp_canvas_edit to mcp_fill (flat_values), which
both use; set_values keeps its argument order.
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width and height went to every node that outputs a LATENT and has a width
and a height. LatentUpscale has both, so a hires-fix workflow had its upscale
set to the start size and stopped upscaling. The size now goes only to a node
that starts a latent, one with no LATENT input.
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GPT's auto-wiring (4afee83) was checked on the isolated test ComfyUI. A splice behind
a node, a new branch, the branch choice and the loop check each took one call. A
ControlNet still failed both ways, because its positive and negative have the same
type as a sampler's. A LoRA after a checkpoint wired only its MODEL line.
- Same-type sockets of the same name pair up (positive to positive).
- wire_to into an input that is already fed puts the new node in front: the old
source now feeds the new node's matching input. A ControlNet before a KSampler
is 6 links in one call; a LoRA before the sampler and both prompts is 5.
- insert_after splices every type a node passes through.
- add_node errors call the new node #new instead of #-1 and say how to pick sockets.
- frontend.md: the canvas_wiring paragraph moves from Verification to the
mutation rules.
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Every chat began with 51 tools and about 43,000 characters of their
words, which a small model like Gemini Flash read half of before it
lost its way. The Gates window now offers either every tool or a daily
set of 19 (action_catalog.DAILY: runs of saved workflows with their
blanks, pictures, models and LoRAs, missing models, the task's own),
about 20,000 characters. tools/list follows the choice (ai_gates
tool_set, anomalous/ai_tools.json); calls are not limited by it, and an
app sees a change in a new chat. The window's rows share one builder.
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A daily run took six or seven calls (find the workflow, open it, read
the canvas, set the prompt, the seed...), each a decision a small model
could get wrong. run_workflow now takes workflow (a saved one, opened in
the task's tab the first time and reused after: the page marks the tab
with the workflow's file) and blanks: prompt, negative, seed, width,
height and image (image_node when there are several LoadImage nodes),
planned by mcp_fill.js and checked before anything changes; the rest
stays as saved. A run with blanks asks as the stricter of the GPU's and
the canvas's gate. get_situation sends an AI whose run failed on a
missing model to check_workflow_models instead of other choices.
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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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A task now opens at its newest step instead of where the previous task
was scrolled to, and a timeline read at its foot follows new steps
whatever the task's state (before, only while a step was running).
Read further up, it stays put; a round button over the message box
leads back down, with the count of the AI's new steps on its corner.
It replaces the "new steps below" pill (ui_ai_newest.js).
The side column's grip lay over the timeline's scrollbar, so grabbing
the scrollbar often resized the column instead. It now has a gap of its
own beside the scrollbar, drawn as three dots.
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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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A run's progress comes in alone and only moved the timeline's bar and the header's button, so
the strip over the message box stayed at the run's start ("nodes 0/29, 0%"). The strip keeps
its context and the progress fast path updates it too.
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When the AI page is lower than SHORT_PX (a window not maximised), the task's title, state,
time and steps, the task it goes on from and the tools share one line, the room around them
shrinks, the message box's hint shows only for a failure (its words become the input's
tooltip) and the waiting page's picture is smaller: about a fifth more room for the timeline.
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- ui_model_retype.js: on a model's page, and from the toast after importing one model: where it
is, what its header suggests (GET /anomalous/placement/look; picked and marked when it can
tell, nothing guessed when it cannot), every type with its loader, where it goes, moved as
Tidy moves (covers and notes along, never over a file). Kinds and the move's error words are
shared (model_import.IMPORT_KINDS, model_placement.moveErrorText).
- model_import.move_into: a copy to another drive is compared with the original at its start,
middle and end, besides its size, before the original goes.
- model_placement: the model a request names is resolved in one place (_source), which also
refuses a negative root.
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- ui_ai_now.js: over the message box, a run's progress with stop, the AI's step still going, a
gate to allow or refuse there, and the AI's open question with its options as buttons (own
words or skip too; several picks and pictures lead to the stage). progressWords is shared
with the run card; the panel's and gate's answers are exported for it.
- ui_ai_drop.js: pictures dropped on the box or pasted are kept in output/ai_inbox
(POST /anomalous/ai_pictures/upload, ai_pictures.save_upload: read as a picture first,
25 MB cap, never over a file) and attached; ComfyUI output pictures dragged in attach as they are.
- Long AI notes are folded to their first lines with "Show all".
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The message box stays at the bottom of the task column however the timeline scrolls. Over the
input, what the message carries (ui_ai_tray.js): pictures with ✎ to mark up (sent on their own)
and ×, chips for what "@" names; gallery pictures are attached, not typed in as "@name". Beside
it the gallery and materials buttons with their counts; the input grows (Enter sends,
Shift+Enter breaks the line) and pictures alone may be sent. "New steps below" appears when the
AI adds steps while the user reads further up; one's own message scrolls into view. Pictures a
message carries show as small image cards with the usual tools. The ready page keeps the big
gallery and what is ready; the box below takes its pictures.
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From a hover audit of the AI workbench and the other pages: picked gallery pictures get a thick
glowing frame, tint and big tick; the picture button lights while open and counts the message's
pictures; weak hovers (materials rows, folded reads with a chevron, gate options, mode switch,
source menu, send and copy buttons, model tabs, set-up button, activity rows) are clear. The
Stage button opens an empty stage that says what goes there; "Hand to AI · 0" is disabled with
nothing picked; move_model's step names the file; a one-node change shows one "find"; the task
link chip keeps its size.
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A waiting task now switches between Get started and Put ready at the top. Put ready shows the
gallery as a big searchable grid feeding the note below (click to add or drop a picture), the
note (the message box, moved in), the materials button and what is ready so far. The gallery
grid is split out of the message box's picker so both use it.
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A task waiting for an AI gets a "Put things ready" step: the message box (gallery pictures,
"@") moves into it beside the materials button, and what the user put ready is drawn there;
the AI gets it all when it takes the task. Pictures a message names show as thumbnails.
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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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The whole gap left of the card catches the pointer, top to bottom; the
handle shows faintly at rest and the edge lights up when pointed at.
Focused, the arrow keys resize it.
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Per sampler: the model and LoRAs feeding it, its prompts, where it starts
(an empty canvas, a picture, or the part before, upscaled) and where it is
saved, "same as part N" when nothing changed; every name finds its node.
Simple (the default) and Full switch in place, kept on this browser.
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A task's pictures no longer in the output folder are marked gone when the
task is read and shown as "Picture deleted" (timeline, results strip,
stage panels and picks) instead of a broken picture; "@" no longer offers
them. The AI hears plainly that the user deleted one, and a tool reading a
gone picture says it may have been deleted.
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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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Instead of a strip to scroll sideways, one "Source: All" button opens the
list of sources (or types), with a search when it is long; a pick, Esc or a
click elsewhere closes it, Esc without closing the browser.
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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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A short panel lists many: badge or small cover, name, where it is from and
the tick per line; the filters become icons beside the search. Switching
between the side panel and the window redraws as lines or cards.
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The side column is a card of its own, narrower by default, its width set
by dragging its left edge (kept; double-click resets; the timeline keeps
its room). The task list folds from a title-bar button and peeks over the
page while pointed at. In the docked materials picker a card's detail opens
from its info button, not on hover.
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The stage, a run's node map at full size (pick the run; each run step has
"see it large") and the materials picker share the side column; the switch
sits in the window's title bar on the AI page, the shown one again hides the
column, and each view keeps its state. The task header stays on top while
the timeline scrolls.
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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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The marker gains a repaint brush (size adjustable) and "make a repaint
mask": the page sends a mask (white where boxes, circles, lines and brush
strokes are) and the server writes the picture with that area as its
alpha to ComfyUI's input folder (anomalous_inpaint_<step>.png, a new file
each time), so LoadImage gives the picture and the area as MASK. The AI's
marks message carries the file and how to inpaint with it; the timeline
says the mask is ready. Canvas tools read ComfyUI's lists anew once when a
value is not among a drop-down's choices, so they take the new file.
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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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The task column (now ui_ai_task_list.js) leads with a New task button, icon
buttons for Connect an AI and the gates, which AI came last, quick filters
by state with counts, and state icons; the current task has an accent bar.
A task's header uses icon buttons (Materials, Undo all, show the stage,
rename and remove as pencil and bin). A waiting task shows a picture, three
numbered steps joined by a line (what to do, the sentence with a large
Copy button, a faint preview of steps) and a connect card that opens the
guide in place; the empty page matches. One set of line icons for the AI
pages (ui_ai_icons.js). Illustrations made with ChatGPT.
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The empty pane shows a toolbox with cards rising out of it, and a combo,
workflow or model without a cover shows a stand-in illustration of its
kind, all transparent WebP of a few dozen KB in web/assets (made with
ChatGPT for this window). The hand-drawn SVG picture they replace is gone.
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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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