The port plan calls for every module under modules/ to declare a
CATEGORY so Settings/Engine panels can group by it. Only alg, sharpen,
appearance, and full_control had one; the other 12 (loaders, empty
latent, media load, minimax_h3, output decode, sampling modifiers/
sampler, system pipeline) are plain infrastructure with no user-facing
settings dial, so they land in "system" except output_decode (post,
matching its STAGE) and the two sampling modules (sampling). Verified
against core/tests (548 passed) -- category validation and the
registry's field-mapping catch a typo here, per the earlier fixture-gap
fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Most FunPack pipelines run at CFG 1, where a negative prompt does
nothing -- it was one more box beside the prompt every Generate reads,
for a field only worth touching occasionally. The reference pipeline's
negative role now targets "project.negative" instead of
"generation.prompt"; the inspector's Project tab hosts it, in a STABLE
node outside the part draw() tears down and rebuilds on every scene
selection, so a field mounted there survives normal use.
Steps, Sampler and Scheduler are on the main window -- the three v4 buried
several clicks deep in Engine Settings. No new UI: the sampler slot declares
roles the way the prompt and the size already do.
What made that nearly free is that the controls now come from the NODE's own
description, through the settingFor/rendererFor pair the pipeline window has
always used. So a combo is a dropdown of the real choices and a number obeys
the real bounds, and prompt.js lost both of its hand-rolled branches: it no
longer decides what a control looks like, it asks.
File: New project, and every project listed with the open one ticked. The
store has been able to do this since the day it arrived and there was no way
in -- 20 lines of menu.
Three faults found on the way, all in the shared input helper:
* ENTER COULD NOT BE TYPED IN A TEXTAREA. `wire()` bound Enter to commit for
every text control, textareas included, so a multi-line value was
impossible -- the prompt above all, which is the longest multi-line thing
in the app. It has been that way in the pipeline window since it was
written; nobody had typed a second line into one.
* A control committed on blur alone, so autofill, a password manager and any
script setting a value went unheard. It listens to `change` as well now,
and commit() only acts on a real difference so the pair costs nothing.
* A control commits on blur, which means text still being typed is not in
the project yet -- and a tab closing is exactly when that is lost. boot
blurs before it saves.
Width, height and length belong to the PROJECT, not to a scene: a scene
cropped on the timeline and regenerated comes back at the project's size,
because the crop was a timeline decision and a regenerate is a new scene.
They sit in the Constructor beside the prompt -- the two things settled in
one sitting -- and travel to the graph on the path the prompt already uses.
No new mechanism: the pipeline declares roles at `project.video` the same
way it declares the prompt, so core still names no node and no setting. A
role whose value is a number gets a number control instead of a box; that
is the whole of the UI change. What the pipeline does not offer is not
shown, so a graph with no length input simply has no Length.
Bounds are the NODE's and stay there -- it already refuses a value outside
them with a reason, beside Generate. A project file is the one thing here
that outlives the code that wrote it, so everything read back out of one is
checked: a whole positive number, or gone.
Also, four faults the browser suite was already red with before this:
* Six tests still clicked a rail toggle that moved into the timeline head.
* At 420px the panel OVERLAYS the centre -- and the named toggles are in
the centre, so the panel covered the control that closes it. That is the
v4 trap this project forbids. They are not offered at that width now; the
View menu, which nothing can cover, is the way in and out.
* A 768px window laid out 860px wide and scrolled sideways. Root cause, and
it was never about one component: a flex item's automatic minimum is its
CONTENT, so every stack, split, panel body and frame region in the app
handed its content's width upward. A scroller that cannot shrink below
what it holds is not a scroller -- the strip of scenes made the WINDOW as
wide as the strip. Floored at the five places every layout routes through.
* A bin test counted `.cx-cell-glyph` across the whole page, so the timeline
drawing cells with the same glyph in them broke a test about the bin.
The prompt was a slot input on a CLIPTextEncode, reachable only by opening
the pipeline window and finding the node. A slot can now say that one of
its inputs belongs on the app's surface -- a place and a label -- and the
shell offers a region with that name or does not, exactly as a module's
panel works. Core validates that a role is names and nothing else.
Values for those inputs travel addressed by slot rather than as a whole
pipeline, so the window that owns the structure and a box that owns one
value cannot disagree about the slots between them. An address that is
not there is refused: a prompt typed into a box for a removed slot has
gone nowhere, and a run that starts anyway is not the run that was asked
for.
Region stand-ins are empty states now, taken down once something mounts --
'modules appear here' left above the modules that appeared explained
nothing to nobody.
One wide modal, a card per group, and a group that opens into a node list
beside that node/'s parameters, saved a group at a time. Groups travel on the
slot, so a pipeline keeps its own arrangement and a new group is a slot
claiming a name nobody used.
Values are drafted until Save; adding, removing, replacing and moving a node
go to the server as they happen, because only it can say whether the result
still wires up.
An unset dropdown reads "not set" rather than showing the first file as though
it had been chosen -- v4 recorded that trap, and picking the entry the box
already shows fires no change, so the one click that looks like the fix does
nothing.
New: region.stack, a frame header, a modal footer that can be refilled.
Not yet: wiring. A socket says so where a control would be.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
v4 could not remove a built-in node from the pipeline and the reason was
structural: the wiring lived in code as a CORE dict nobody could reach, so
"remove this" had nothing to delete and "use a different one" had nothing to
change. Code is not a thing a user can edit.
The pipeline is now data. Three operations over it, each refusing with a
reason rather than half-doing the job:
build turns slots into the prompt ComfyUI queues, checking every link's type
and refusing a graph that cannot work. replace points a slot at any node
producing what its consumers read -- the built-in ones have no special
standing, which is what makes them replaceable rather than merely present.
remove takes a slot out and rewires what it fed to what fed it, when the
node has exactly one input matching each CONSUMED output; v4 required one
for every output a class could produce, so a spare FLOAT nobody wired made a
node unremovable.
Demonstrated against real schemas: FunPack's VAE loader swapped for core's
VAELoader, the modifiers node removed with the sampler rewired to read the
model directly, and removing the empty latent refused because nothing
upstream could feed what it fed.
Then run for real. The default pipeline, with three loader slots replaced by
one checkpoint slot, built from data, accepted by ComfyUI's own
validate_prompt, and executed by its own engine to execution_success and a
picture. Every wiring and type validated on the first attempt; the only
things ComfyUI objected to in the untouched default were the three unset
file pickers, which is correct -- a fresh install cannot know which model
you own.
Added a checkpoint loader, because the split loaders are right for LTX and
H3 and cannot read an SD-family single file at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
