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>
Every module panel was decoration. The values lived in the browser and
nothing sent them, so a modifier switched on was one the run never heard
about. They now travel with the pipeline on every check, and core places
them wherever a module says they belong -- announced, not known, so the
node that carries them is not privileged.
Settings with nowhere to go are said beside Generate rather than
swallowed, and the warning survives the run it is about: the status line
is redrawn by every message, so a warning put there was gone the moment
the run said Queued.
Also: a settings row in a docked panel squeezed its label to one word per
line, because the control keeps a 140px floor and took it out of the
label. Below the width where they fit side by side, they stack.
Two nodes. One carries the values a person picked, as a single validated
payload rather than a socket per setting -- a socket per setting means this
node's shape changes whenever any module gains an option, and every saved
workflow refers to sockets that moved.
The other reads what announced itself, filters it by what the model actually
is, orders it by declared relations, and installs each one through ComfyUI's
own patcher_extension wrappers. The consequence is checked against comfy's
real prepare_model_patcher and WrapperExecutor rather than against our own
dict: a model that has been through this node runs every per-step modifier
inside ComfyUI's own SamplerCustomAdvanced. The sampler is not consulted, so
it cannot own them.
Installing happens on a clone, and clone() copies the wrapper lists per key,
so the model everyone else holds is untouched. Fifty runs leave zero
wrappers behind. The accumulation that once degraded output across a hundred
generations and survived every reset short of a restart is structurally
impossible here rather than something to remember to undo.
The payload is validated against the same declaration that renders the
panel: an undeclared key, a wrong type, a value outside its own bounds and a
bool passed as a number are all refused, and all problems are reported at
once. v4 validated none of it, which is why it needed a hand-mirrored table
of every default and a list of keys that no longer meant anything.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude